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Then, six weeks later if it's a rape crop leave it. If not you have a green manure in front of a winter wheat or spring crop.Farm saved seed drill it early, limited risk.
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Then, six weeks later if it's a rape crop leave it. If not you have a green manure in front of a winter wheat or spring crop.Farm saved seed drill it early, limited risk.
I will put some buckwheat and berseem clover in with it at a cost of circa £15/ha. I would be going through anyway to plant some form of catch or cover crop. It will just include some farm saved rape seed. Maximum de-risk of financial.Then, six weeks later if it's a rape crop leave it. If not you have a green manure in front of a winter wheat or spring crop.
Then, six weeks later if it's a rape crop leave it. If not you have a green manure in front of a winter wheat or spring crop.
Not bothering, a friend reckons he's going to have a go, says he's planning on drilling as soon as the combine leaves the field if moisture present, I told him it'll be in flower by Christmas along with the BG
I'm just sat here writting an article for the next Direct Driller magazine ......
I've told him it's a waste of time but fell on deaf ears, very few if any decent OSR crops around these partsYour friend might want to look up the life cycle of cabbage root fly.
Anyone going to take advantage of these "nothing if it fails" offers then?
I've told him it's a waste of time but fell on deaf ears, very few if any decent OSR crops around these parts
And yet we continue to import crops grown with the benefit of neonic treatment.I have had two goes at drilling kale this spring, both failed due to drought and flea beetle. You just get to the point where you have had enough.
My beet has had two doses of sprayed on environmentally damaging insecticide because the neonic coating was banned. That spray programme has killed more beneficials than the seed coating ever did but it still got enough aphids into it to bring in loads of virus. I am not cheerful about it. I can’t find anything cheerful to say about it. It’s a crock of shite of Michael Gove’s making.
Rant over.
I particularly noticed the root fly damage on my OSR volunteers that I sprayed off in January this year to drill my wheat. The roots were completely devoid of root hairs, and each root pulled straight out of the ground like a stick. Plants almost dead.He's partially right but there has been a lot of root fly damage to the very early sown osr in the last couple of years even if the flea beetle doesn't affect it as much. There is absolutely nothing you can do about root fly other than not sow before mid August.
Just a point to remember when we are moaning about neonics going. The Canadians are starting to see serious resistance problems with it now and are trying to spray on insecticides which aren’t working.
This is an inevitability.
How long until they stopped working on beet?I know you think we've farmed ourselves into a corner with chemicals. But I can't see how neonics, which worked, in sugarbeet - a non flowering crop - were a problem. We lost them, and now they are riddled with virus yellows.
How long until they stopped working on beet?
I am have a friend who is involved with a really diverse business that grow about 40 crops conventional and organically. I think it was the cabbages recently they had to spray repeatedly for aphids and couldn’t get on top Of them, the organic cabbages have had much less pressure. This is all abit anecdotal but I’ve observed it on my organic neighbours farm that he seems to have a lot less insect pressure.
I honestly do think w have farmed ourselves into a corner with insecticides Atleast. We are no further ahead than 80 years ago, if anything it worse.
The U.K. should ban all insecticides.
Maybe things will balance out?I don't know, but they were still working when they were banned.
Banning them will reduce the area of beet grown in the UK and increase the amount of sugar imported from the rest of the world. Who knows what chemicals they use to produce it, or how much fuel is burnt to get it here.