Getting concerned

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
BYDV foci appeared in neighbours crops....

Now that is interesting. What crop barley or wheat. Sowing date? Presume no autumn pyrethroid - or did it receive pyrethroid. Confirmed BYDV?One foci or several? Location in field in relation to boundaries / hedges etc? Soz lots questions - but am interested if you can answer any and for future reports?
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Now that is interesting. What crop barley or wheat. Sowing date? Presume no autumn pyrethroid - or did it receive pyrethroid. Confirmed BYDV?One foci or several? Location in field in relation to boundaries / hedges etc? Soz lots questions - but am interested if you can answer any and for future reports?
Ok. I'm not an agronomist.......... But looks like it to me. In shelter of hedge. WB. Late Oct drilled. It received a sprayer pass post em end of Nov ish and if it had been mine it would have had insecticide in......
 

Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
Ok. I'm not an agronomist.......... But looks like it to me. In shelter of hedge. WB. Late Oct drilled. It received a sprayer pass post em end of Nov ish and if it had been mine it would have had insecticide in......

Thanks for reply. But disappointing if it is BYDV with a late October sowing date - would be emerging mid November and I would hope have missed any aphid flight - you are a bit warmer in your part of world than up here in what was a miserable Lincolnshire last November. Pyrethroid end November - yes I suppose most would have included one, though technically still early as the Tsum not reached but I would have included one I suppose. In general virus vector is bird cherry which should be sensitive but if a grain aphid then most probably resistant to pyrethroid. If you could keep an eye on the patch and report on developments over coming weeks - does it develop classic orange/yellow colour and stunting. Then you can assess if it was BYDV. Great fun provide it is only a wee patch and not the field.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
T Sum was reached on all my late October drillings but by then winter had well and truly set in & flying aphids would have to dodge billions of raindrops. I am a long way south of the fens though.
 

B'o'B

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Arable Farmer
Location
Rutland
Thanks for reply. But disappointing if it is BYDV with a late October sowing date - would be emerging mid November and I would hope have missed any aphid flight - you are a bit warmer in your part of world than up here in what was a miserable Lincolnshire last November. Pyrethroid end November - yes I suppose most would have included one, though technically still early as the Tsum not reached but I would have included one I suppose. In general virus vector is bird cherry which should be sensitive but if a grain aphid then most probably resistant to pyrethroid. If you could keep an eye on the patch and report on developments over coming weeks - does it develop classic orange/yellow colour and stunting. Then you can assess if it was BYDV. Great fun provide it is only a wee patch and not the field.

If it’s confined to near boundaries it’s more likely to be from grain aphid’s I’m told.
 

DRC

Member
My agronomist ( serviced as well), has said he’s heard of some unbelievable recs from competitors trying to basically sell chemical.
Our barley has had no autumn herbicide and we’ve resigned to a dirty stubble or pre harvest round up. Keep the bed up a bit on the combine .
 

Andy12345

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Location
Somerset
Won't be on for a while here in Somerset (n)
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Gong Farmer

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BASIS
Location
S E Glos
My agronomist ( serviced as well), has said he’s heard of some unbelievable recs from competitors trying to basically sell chemical.
They are commercial businesses whose finances are really hurting at the moment. They are no different to any other business in needing to make up for poor sales. The question is whether their customers are obliged to help them out in this.
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
They are commercial businesses whose finances are really hurting at the moment . . .. . The question is whether their customers are obliged to help them out in this.
It's always been the ancilliary businesses which feel our pain first, Fromebridge.

Come summer and tractor sales will be down and come autumn it'll be combines.

Of course, it's different this time because last time the agronomy economy wasn't quite so important.
 

stroller

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Somerset UK
On Tuesday I managed to drive the manitou into a field to pick up some fallen branches, and not leave any ruts now, after 35mm rain over night everything is saturated.
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The ditch in the first picture is about 8 feet deep, normally only a foot or so of water in even in the winter, the second picture is a 12" twinwall pipe running full bore and it can't keep up with the flow. I have never seen the ditch that full, every culvert upstream is the same.
 
Location
Holderness
On Tuesday I managed to drive the manitou into a field to pick up some fallen branches, and not leave any ruts now, after 35mm rain over night everything is saturated.
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The ditch in the first picture is about 8 feet deep, normally only a foot or so of water in even in the winter, the second picture is a 12" twinwall pipe running full bore and it can't keep up with the flow. I have never seen the ditch that full, every culvert upstream is the same.

Sorry to post this and it’s not me, we are on heavier land but someone I know has got going again!
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DRC

Member
They are commercial businesses whose finances are really hurting at the moment. They are no different to any other business in needing to make up for poor sales. The question is whether their customers are obliged to help them out in this.
I realise that, but you have to evaluate a crops potential and spend accordingly .
 

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