Catch crops 2018

mixed breed

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Sowed our sheep keep into dust a month or so ago. Having had very little rain since its not hard to see why some crops are struggling. A couple of fields of turnips look awful and desperately need a drink, the rape is not too bad, but the mustard has really marched away. A real mixed bag.

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how's yours doing?
 

DRC

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Kale/rape /turnip mix, broadcast after wholcrop rye on 14th July , sat in dust until recently . Now growing, but gone very dry again and wilting. Needs rain soon.
Stubble turnips sown later, some after wheat, germinated ok, but need a drink ASAP .
@mixed breed and I farm only a few miles away as the crow flies, so are both needing rain.
 

mixed breed

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Mixed Farmer
View attachment 712052 View attachment 712056 View attachment 712060 View attachment 712062 Kale/rape /turnip mix, broadcast after wholcrop rye on 14th July , sat in dust until recently . Now growing, but gone very dry again and wilting. Needs rain soon.
Stubble turnips sown later, some after wheat, germinated ok, but need a drink ASAP .
@mixed breed and I farm only a few miles away as the crow flies, so are both needing rain.
Yours are looking very well in comparison (y)
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
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Montgomeryshire
View attachment 712354 View attachment 712356 My westerwolds after wheat are poking through . Min tilled in.
Proper 5 yr ley also coming through.
Might get more response to this thread in the livestock and forage section @mixed breed

Those Westerwolds look very much like mine, that I DD’ed ahead of a forecast deluge at the end of July. A little bit germinated then, but most of it just poking through now.:(
Stubble turnips much the same, with some well established and some freshly emerged. A small amount of slug damage evident now too, where there was no sign before. Keeping an eye on it now, so ready to throw some special feed at them.
 

DRC

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Those Westerwolds look very much like mine, that I DD’ed ahead of a forecast deluge at the end of July. A little bit germinated then, but most of it just poking through now.:(
Stubble turnips much the same, with some well established and some freshly emerged. A small amount of slug damage evident now too, where there was no sign before. Keeping an eye on it now, so ready to throw some special feed at them.
Have you put much fertiliser on your westerwolds
 

neilo

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Montgomeryshire
Have you put much fertiliser on your westerwolds

A cwt/ac of Nitram son after it started emerging, with a view to the same again after the first grazing. That might have changed now, as the first grazing is a while off yet.:(
Mine is a mix of Westerwolds and Winfred rape, if that makes any difference. I fully expect it to romp away now, but delayed compared to what was planned.
 

Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
Our stubble turnips/forage rape drilled a month ago are slow to get going. Or perhaps I'm just impatient. Jealous of silverfoxes pictures. Looks like a great crop. Ours would be at same stage of his second picture. Gave them 125kg/ha of 34.5% N
 

mixed breed

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Our stubble turnips/forage rape drilled a month ago are slow to get going. Or perhaps I'm just impatient. Jealous of silverfoxes pictures. Looks like a great crop. Ours would be at same stage of his second picture. Gave them 125kg/ha of 34.5% N

Impatient is the word. They've had a good soaking here today, more forecast for the end of the week.
 

Al R

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West Wales
So after 3 weeks in the ground they were knee high!?

That's nuts, ours have been in a month now and just got 3-4 leaves and not got off ground.

They were sown on the 16th july - meant to be June but we had a shower of rain on the 16th is July so sowed it that afternoon.

We’ve had over 72mm of rain in August alone so hardly surprising how much they’d grown.
The photo was taken 25/08/18.
 

Al R

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West Wales
Think lack of moisture could be part of our problem. Ploughing at moment and having to keep back window closed cause of dust.

Crumbs! That’s a quick way of wearing metal down too!

My SB died on its feet in the drought, it was a day or 2 off combining and the heavens opened and still hasn’t really stopped in over 7 weeks, ended up combining at 19% 4 weeks after it was actually ready, a lot of barley and wheat is germinating in the ear now.
 

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