Amount of CSFB coming into store - frightening !!

[Clive]

Warning, clip below contains upsetting scenes !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1157256293377355776

 

[Cab-over Pete]

They look healthy, robust and ready for action.

 

[stroller]

Haven't seen any down here....yet

 

[JCMaloney]

That`ll upset the vegans................

 

[milkloss]

Warning, clip below contains upsetting scenes !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1157256293377355776

Not really done any arable for 15 years myself. So what’s the issue with them and how do you get them out?

Making me feel itchy for some reason

 

[bobk]

They all weigh

 

[Beowulf]

Looks a good crop, Clive. A fair pile of OSR too.

 

[Clive]

Looks a good crop, Clive. A fair pile of OSR too.

we have hardly got started yet !

 

[nick...]

I’ve heard stories of rape piles moving in the store due to the amount flea beetles.
Nick...

 

[Brisel]

So, your conservation agriculture doesn't mean no pests after all. I look forward to seeing your yields. Perhaps your system does reduce pest pressure but it certainly does not eliminate it.

 

[le bon paysan]

Jake Freestone has/ had the same problem.

 

[Clive]

So, your conservation agriculture doesn't mean no pests after all. I look forward to seeing your yields. Perhaps your system does reduce pest pressure but it certainly does not eliminate it.

its certainly doesn't mean no pests - extermination is not the aim of conservation ag !

What I will say is I have decent yields (again) at low inputs levels and CSFB has not caused any problem and I don't expect them to this year either

once more this yera I will manage the rsk accordingly - £3.20 's worth (10kgs/ha )of seed from the heap has already been cleaned ready to direct drill - if CSFB take it out then it will be winter beans or a spring break instead, I certainly wont be making futile efforts and spending money on insecticide that's for sure

 

[yellow belly]

We had this in the 1990s
Never caused a problem for storage
But we may have lost crops at the time put down to slugs and rabbits
Grew linseed for a few years after because of the low price of rape seed

 

[wanton dwarf]

We had the same last year .. flea beetle all over the grain trailers.

Yield was okay.

But the following Oil Seed crop on different fields was pretty much wiped out.

So this year will either pre-empt with insecticide or stop growing OSR - looking like stopping growing OSR atm.

 

[GOODYSMATE]

While cutting my rape my N/H combine looked like a yellow ladybird with all the little black dots on it

 

[marshbarn]

Warning, clip below contains upsetting scenes !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1157256293377355776

Loads of CSFB coming into store here as well, doesnt bode well for new crop planting.
Your videos are very impressive, what is your average field size ?

 

[RushesToo]

You could look at it that there is food fit to eat, it has some bugs - they will get cleaned out or eaten.
Most people would be happy.

I buy supermarket food too often and when I find animals in it there is a bit of me that goes "Yuk" and more of me goes - well not much insecticide on that then. I clearly need to set my standards higher, or lower.

I like the idea of a crop that has some wildlife that can survive in it. [I am not a vegan]

 

[Clive]

Loads of CSFB coming into store here as well, doesnt bode well for new crop planting.
Your videos are very impressive, what is your average field size ?

Average field size was 25ac ish - we have taken on some bigger ones and dropped a block off FBT land that had a load of small ones though over the last couple of years that has probably increased that to 35 ac maybe it’s not something I’ve sat and worked out for a while

 

[DRC]

Loads of CSFB coming into store here as well, doesnt bode well for new crop planting.
Your videos are very impressive, what is your average field size ?

My son was saying the same and he’s not far from you.

 

[DRC]

I’m surrounded by fields or OSR and want to sow stubble turnips next week. Wonder how I’ll get on with them.