So after a few dry days have managed to get 65 ha of propino dd in so far just another 30 ha and 16 ha ( for a friend ) of spring barley to go and 36 ha of spring wheat on heavier ground then latter on 9 ha of soya. Mind one 15 ha piece we chanced our luck and it was a bit damp as rain has come in today but as we had started decided to finish . Well it will keep the locals talking if it comes up a mess as it is by the main road . I recon it will be fine just glad to have some in the ground in this trying time .
Drilling progress 2018
- Thread starter tw15
- Start date
At this rate you'll be able to get to that bit of drilling you asked me to do before I will! Nothing in here yet & rain forecast all week. Again
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
32ha of spring barley to go in, none done so far. 28ha of beans planned and did manage to drill 8ha 13 days ago. I'm praying it's ok but the channels where the seed is have had a lot of water in them and the seed has hardly chitted in 2 weeks, just hope it doesn't rot. Wishing I had left the seed in the bag currently but may be proved wrong yet and it might be fine.
- Location
- Lincs
Just tried to drill a field. Went well till the headlands. Raining steady now. I'm not starting the next field in this.
- Location
- Herefordshire
None here,just tooooooo wet,another13 ml yesterday morning.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Too wet here
When we are dry enough we will go for it no good going a day too early
The silver lining is that black grass cannot cope with late drilling
When do we not use Avadex is the question
When we are dry enough we will go for it no good going a day too early
The silver lining is that black grass cannot cope with late drilling
When do we not use Avadex is the question
Nothing in here yet & rain forecast all week. Again
I can share your pain, here, Brisel.
The frequency of hopelessly impossible springs is a statistical quirk.
We had 5 here, no less, in the 1970s, but very few since.
The main difficulty is somehow to factor in the completely unpredictable bad spring outliers when doing one's budgets and cash-flows a year or two ahead.
Here, for example, we're now looking at about 25% fallow for 2018, which certainly wasn't exactly the case I presented to our bankers last June.
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Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Zero, it seems to be the same all over the northern hemisphere, Spring is late.
Is this the perfect storm.
Is this the perfect storm.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
What price spring malting barley after harvest? So much will be left fallow, or end up cuckoo barley.
- Location
- Cirencester
150 acres to do here, heavy land destined for SW but reckon I will not get on them soon enough so will prob end up fallowing. I could have forced some SB in yesterday/day before but it would have been mauled in. I am half tempted to get the Fertie spinner on, spin it all on and then pull some chain harrows over it if it the weather pattern stays like this.
- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
No hope of drilling around here for 7 dry days I would think, had just over an inch yesterday AM. Still have over a thousand acres I can t get N fertiliser on yet [first dose] and 200 acs is under water. I have beans/barley and oats to drill, 60% of my farm but can t do anything about it. Hedges have only just budded the last few days so although by the date we are really late, nature says its not so I m not to bothered. I think its best in the bag at the moment.
Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
Nothing here (Perthshire) so far for me I think there is the odd but done further east.
Tompkins
Member
- Location
- NE Somerset
Still got winter beans in the bag which I was planning to have drilled in March. Over 400 acres of barley to sow, although half of that still needs ploughing/cultivating. Already planned 120 acres of fallow but looking like it could be a lot more now! Still some wheat yet to get any N, just won't travel. In the last 18 months, if something could go wrong, it has...
It's only taken the last 9 months to drive me completely round the bend again, Tompkins.
Starting with the 4" of rain we got that last weekend of last July.
Three patches of WOSR and a couple of WW never harvested, still under water, will all have to be fallowed this time.
So that's lots of costs and no income over the last 24 months.
Thank goodness we only do financial analysis on a whole farm basis.
- Location
- Wiltshire
Another day of persistent rain here. So wet I can't get muck onto maize ground and it's chalk underneath. Have a neighbour picking some up so I am not overwhelmed. 20ac of barley planted 180 to go. The water in my meadows is still going up, it's one of the times i am glad the cows are always in.
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- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Same here. Optimistically put the mixer in the slurry pit this morn. Some tb testing middle of the day. Just been to look at the ground before I drag a load out and it is v wet. Mixer now parked up.
It is just dirty water. Really tempted to find the submersible and pump it into the dirty water pit then can be pumped up to the irragator.
Probably will be breaking rules for doing that - so won't be.
I'm am now very sad at this weather
- Location
- Wiltshire
- Location
- Cirencester
Yes it is just grinding on, just bloody depressing, cold and damp. Looking at the charts looks better for next week and onwards but am unsure how much rain is about. Bugger all grain drilled here of late, friend has been ploughing with the combi right up his arse drilling oats at 230kg/ha today in the rain by all accounts. Fine on the light brash but wouldn't be able to do that on my land.