Less BYDV?
Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
- Start date
Less BYDV?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
We normally need to be drilled up by 4th Oct. Last year we believed forecast for dry October reinforced by previous winter being so dry we drilled in January with ease. Result: nothing drilled at all this winter other than 25 acres last week now lying sodden.
spay it.
- Location
- Darlington
Is it legal to spay yellow dwarves?
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
why not? so long as you follow the hse rules , the guidelines for self assessment ,the enviroment agency waste directives whilst fully recording dates time and the operators licensed number for your assurance inspection as well as informing the local dwarf association of the rules re transporting of dwarfs to your premises.Is it legal to spay yellow dwarves?
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
im going to undertake my own survey which has served me well in the past ,but now need due to the prospects of a much reduced harvest yield to formalise the plan which will consist of a tour of the eastern uk wheat belt on my way south (harwich) to the snow covered alpine meadows .To broaden the results a consideration of the plantings throughout northern europe will recquire an extended tour with time to write my outward report before returning via a more northerly route via holland (ijuimuden).This method of evaluating the plantings and prospects of the european harvest and not just uk as we are constantly told we are in a "world market"will undoubtably improve my marketing strategy and could well be classed as a business expense .
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
north or south?
- Location
- East yorks
South to home
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
in that case you could well have been close to the locality ( A1 )and I was thinking that sept/oct sown didnt look too bad just needs to dry up and fert on ,although some of that sown recently or just ploughed looks abysmal and ive got some
We weren't.
Got rained off on 23rd September and left it to dry out.
Should have kept going all that week.
- Location
- Cirencester
Looking at stuff drilled from Nov 20th onwards right up to three weeks ago, what is up is going backwards at an alarming rate, brash soil has "capped", never seen that before. I have come to the conclusion (with hindsight) with others in a discussion in our local this eve that actually doing nothing at all would have been the best option. Waiting on for any chance to drill has I think been just a waste of time and energy, seed and money. God only knows what I will harvest, long range forecasts for Spring seem fairly awful to top it off. Heavy land, god knows what will happen there.
I have friends who have real heavy clay, with nothing planted, nothing ploughed and it looks bleak re spring cropping.
Those published figures seem so far off the mark, certainly around here anyway.
I have friends who have real heavy clay, with nothing planted, nothing ploughed and it looks bleak re spring cropping.
Those published figures seem so far off the mark, certainly around here anyway.
They clearly have not been around us with there survey! Would think 15-20% tops of wheat drilled around us, and most of that looks crap, if it doesn't dry up soon then our worst clay land will be fallow, it was ploughed in good conditions last September but it's just a pudding underneath and has been for several month now, I've been saying it will come good but for some land the clock is ticking now , not going to force crops in for the sake of it, so patience is going to be needed if we do get a chance.
Jo28
Member
- Location
- East Yorks
i agree, god knows where they get 93%. We have around 20% in, maybe 10% will survive. Most around us are in a similar position, some have nothing in. We will be fallowing a large amount.
- Location
- East yorks
We have to go back to the early 90’s for it to be this wet
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
In Herefordshire I cant remember it ever being
so continually wet as this.
Starting to be a real annoyance as March approaches.
so continually wet as this.
Starting to be a real annoyance as March approaches.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Have a look at Brisel's wheat planting survey
Have a look at Brisel's wheat planting survey
In case it drops off the leader board, it's here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/what-of-your-winter-wheat-is-sown.310724/
- Location
- South Wales UK
Anyone puddleing rice in??
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
How long till a drought thread gets started!?
It'll dry up then forget to rain.
Worse thing possible for spring barley.
It'll dry up then forget to rain.
Worse thing possible for spring barley.
- Location
- East yorks
Hope it does forget to rain till about late October