Early N

[7610 super q]

Daffodils been out since December here. And received a good hiding with 2 months of cold wet weather. And it wouldn't surprise me if we had another 2 months of cold wet weather.

 

[richard hammond]

Daffodils been out since December here. And received a good hiding with 2 months of cold wet weather. And it wouldn't surprise me if we had another 2 months of cold wet weather.

+1 same thinking here!! sting in the tail!!

 

[MrNoo]

+1 same thinking here!! sting in the tail!!

You've only got to look at the charts, flip flopping from cold to very cold next weekend onwards, an SSW having taken place last w-end.

 

[richard hammond]

You've only got to look at the charts, flip flopping from cold to very cold next weekend onwards, an SSW having taken place last w-end.

Why do people think they can beat nature? the plant will always decide when it is time to go!

 

[4course]

Why do people think they can beat nature? the plant will always decide when it is time to go!

thats why the daff idea isnt so daft ,ho ho

 

[Fish]

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small doses with the earliest as soon as daff heads get above/level with the leaves, esp urea and this timing is now here.A bit later than last year and its noticeable how short they are which tells me soil temps are lowish but daylight is forcing them along .

Wow, you must live on the costa del North Yorkshire, here in the sub Arctic climatic zone of North Yorkshire the daffy are still below ground.
There is a field of wheat not far from here that was drilled in mid Nov, after potatoes, that is now just comming up, 12 weeks later.
I guess the fields on this farm will not see any fert until early-mid March, which is normal for this place.

 

[robbie]

I put urea on my rape yesterday. The crop is putting out new growth so therefore needs feeding.

My thinking is if it stays cold growth will be slow but so will N availability from urea, as things warm up growth will increase along with the crops demand for N but so will the conversion of N from the urea hence giving the crop a trickle feed of what it needs depending on what happens over the next month.

The same thinking applies to cereals which will get there first top dressing next week.

 

[Renaultman]

Why do people think they can beat nature? the plant will always decide when it is time to go!

Although I agree, I did pass a very hungry looking field of W barley, which IMHO means it is starting to grow and is looking for N. Mine is looking ok so far and being my first year on liquid I will leave it till I'm sure it needs it.

 

[4course]

Although I agree, I did pass a very hungry looking field of W barley, which IMHO means it is starting to grow and is looking for N. Mine is looking ok so far and being my first year on liquid I will leave it till I'm sure it needs it.

why?

 

[Renaultman]

why?

Why what? Why leave it?
It's fairly fit, got good colour and plenty of plants, the bonus of autumn muck I guess.

 

[4course]

Why what? Why leave it?
It's fairly fit, got good colour and plenty of plants, the bonus of autumn muck I guess.

ok, but my fear would be that it dries up enough to travel we wait a week then it comes wet but warmer for a fortnight and lo and behold we are in sh-- street . Years ago when full of enthusiasm and eager to take advice given went to some meeting extolling the virtues of not applying fert in feb or even worse autumn or jan ,followed the advice and then it pi---d down through to well into march crops were yellow stunted and non tillering even first wheats in the end had to hire in at the time a guy with a new fangled quad bike to get the first dose on, too late was the cry, yields really suffered no tillers early ripening , never again im for early and now if only small amounts cos I dont want small amounts in my shed come september

 

[Renaultman]

ok, but my fear would be that it dries up enough to travel we wait a week then it comes wet but warmer for a fortnight and lo and behold we are in sh-- street . Years ago when full of enthusiasm and eager to take advice given went to some meeting extolling the virtues of not applying fert in feb or even worse autumn or jan ,followed the advice and then it pi---d down through to well into march crops were yellow stunted and non tillering even first wheats in the end had to hire in at the time a guy with a new fangled quad bike to get the first dose on, too late was the cry, yields really suffered no tillers early ripening , never again im for early and now if only small amounts cos I dont want small amounts in my shed come september

Is that liquid or urea? Will probably try to get some urea on the contract 2nd wheats the next time we can travel. Sprayer tractor is away for at least a week any how so hands are tied on my own

 

[marshbarn]

Have not started yet but the spinner is on and ready to go, thinking of putting first dose of urea sulphur this week on OSR

 

[Brisel]

A couple of neighbours out yesterday with spinners. Not sure which crops but it's usually osr first then winter barley then winter wheat.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Well one month later and what a difference ,,,,, a crop which wasn't looking happy is now flying , so glad I took that chance of traveling on a frost that morning

 

[Renaultman]

Well one month later and what a difference ,,,,, a crop which wasn't looking happy is now flying , so glad I took that chance of traveling on a frost that morning

To be honest mine have had nothing but everything that had OM in the seedbed is fcoming along nicely without.

 

[Mr Charisma]

To be honest mine have had nothing but everything that had OM in the seedbed is fcoming along nicely without.

I can only look at my neighbour who hasn't put anything on his rape yet ,,,, I find myself wondering why because it's struggling at the moment

 

[Zippy768]

Haven't put anything on osr here for obvious reasons. Agron had a walk yesterday and said ours looked greener than other people's. Probably just to make me feel better after he said it was gonna hammer down last night.

 

[Try to succeed]

Hoping for some frost with this mini ‘cold spell’ at the weekend to finish my osr. The bit I did do is romping away. The other is coping thus far

 

[Wombat]

Put some on the OSR then we got biblical amounts of rain, it's starting to perk a bit but it is ridiculously wet, so will see how it goes