Rain envy
Flea Beetle 2019
- Thread starter cotswold farmer 1977
- Start date
Rain envy
26mm here today in SE Cornwall
Would have been very welcome here
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
I wouldn't have called a fortnight ago late drilling for a crop such as osr or stubble turnips. Only got 3/4 of my osr in last weekend. Rained on it all day yesterday so should do it the world of good. Just need a dry spell to get the last 1/4 (22 acres) in!
- Location
- Trent, Dorset
Whilst checking cultivated grounds today had two CFSB land on me. Possible flight movement?
DON'T MOVE, you don't want to spread them to other farms
- Location
- Trent, Dorset
Perhaps I could be the pied piper and lead them abroad. I am willing to be sponsored to go the Caribbean. Obviously I would need a hotel near the coast to draw them to me and some expenses.
solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
Wrong direction. ?The remnants of those hurricanes will blow them back again?
- Location
- South Oxfordshire
Started planting on Friday, 200 acres in ready for a wet Monday.........not even 1mm.......bugger for us trying to establish on clay. Stopped planting any more.
l'ordinary bonville
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- Location
- N Yorks
!st of mine sown 31st August is all just about through
And 50% showing damage from CSFB. Little f!!ckers
Gone from 80ha to 45ha this year. Not wanting to apply pyrethroids but will have no choice
And 50% showing damage from CSFB. Little f!!ckers
Gone from 80ha to 45ha this year. Not wanting to apply pyrethroids but will have no choice
- Location
- Berkshire
I feel your pain, 350 acres in over the weekend here, patted myself on the back Sunday night and waited for the ensuing deluge....1 mm later ?
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
Bugger
, started on friday as well over here in essex , managed 1.5 hrs in the afternoon, was pretty dry conditions but then got rained off by a torrential 10 min shower, stopped me till sat afternoon, got 70 of 90 acres in by sunday evening, rained all monday, 15 more acres in this afternoon, 5 to go now. Seedbeds very moist now, some heavy some lighter land but ideal growing conditions! Could hardly have been a better start for it and were not a million miles from Oxfordshire, crazy how different the weather can be a few miles apart!
Scrambler
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Osr here sown last Saturday and just emerging is already being shot holed.
ZXR17
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- Location
- South Dorset
Are most of you spraying at night and how important is it to go in the dark ?
The little buggers certainly don't move much in the torch light but there were a lot about in the bright sunshine today .
The lights on my sprayer are pretty rubbish and I don't really want to trash my sprayer boom .
The little buggers certainly don't move much in the torch light but there were a lot about in the bright sunshine today .
The lights on my sprayer are pretty rubbish and I don't really want to trash my sprayer boom .
- Location
- Worcestershire
Little beggars just rocked up hear . been fairly untouched until now
early stuff fine but lots just coming up getting hammered I expect it will be cleared next couple of days
early stuff fine but lots just coming up getting hammered I expect it will be cleared next couple of days
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Can hear the little buggers walking through the crop this afternoon. Will be sprayed tomorrow eve......if there is anything left
- Location
- Bedfordshire
So dry here that 5 year old trees are dying, let alone OSR growing.
FWIW I do mine at night and seem to have reasonable results. If I grow any Osr next year I’ll try to avoid fields with poles...