Good crops

[Gedd]

Been up the east coast on the train today durham to edinburgh zoo with grandaugter some blooming good crops of wheat from morpeth up to edinburgh not many misses seen 4 combones in the good loking crops of rape on the way back tonight not lik the sparse crops around here

 

[S.Jamieson]

Where is 'around here' ??

 

[livestock 1]

I came down that road last night and was saying to the mrs how well the wheat barley oats and rape looked. No patchy lumps or bits missing it all looks well. Some maybe looks a bit green here and there generally it’s looking good. What has been combined looks decent for straw too

 

[Gedd]

Where is 'around here' ??

Durham

 

[Wombat]

When I went down the cereals and groundswell i thought how much better the crops looked in to Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Look of the draw on rain over winter i think

 

[DrWazzock]

Maybe the folk further north are already experts at growing them in wetter conditions while we down south are still adapting. More flea beetle pressure down here as well.

 

[AndrewB]

Maybe the folk further north are already experts at growing them in wetter conditions while we down south are still adapting. More flea beetle pressure down here as well.

Early drilling before it gets wet, no need to wait for black grass to chit.
First week of October is normally late enough up here.

 

[2wheels]

Been up the east coast on the train today durham to edinburgh zoo with grandaugter some blooming good crops of wheat from morpeth up to edinburgh not many misses seen 4 combones in the good loking crops of rape on the way back tonight not lik the sparse crops around here

the best farmers are from scotland?

 

[Gedd]

Where is 'around here' ??

Durham

the best farmers are from scotland?

There was a few fields ploughed or ciultivated and it looked easy worked ground

 

[2wheels]

Durham

There was a few fields ploughed or ciultivated and it looked easy worked ground

aye, my comment was firmly tongue in cheek. different soils and climate makes for different farmers. there are good and bad farmers everywhere.

 

[Fish]

Can only speak of the area I visit on a regular basis, Millfield/Coldstream/ Lennel area, good crops as they were almost all drilled up by the end of September and beat the weather, past experience a big factor , one big rain event early October and jobs kippered.
+ been up fishing in early October and seen fields of wheat still to cut on many occasions, two sides to the coin.

 

[PSQ]

There was a few fields ploughed or ciultivated and it looked easy worked ground

It’s not so much “easily worked” as ‘not overly dry’ this year…

And yes, if it’s not sown by the last day of September then there’s a real chance it either won’t be sown, or it will lose progressively more potential by the day.
Us northerners tend to look at the ‘progressive’ southern farmers that “won’t sow a seed until late October / November” like they’re holding a revolver to their own temples, loaded with a single bullet.

 

[bobk]

Flew in to EMA an hour ago , some big holes in the fields , probably look ok from the road

 

[Flat 10]

It’s not so much “easily worked” as ‘not overly dry’ this year…

And yes, if it’s not sown by the last day of September then there’s a real chance it either won’t be sown, or it will lose progressively more potential by the day.
Us northerners tend to look at the ‘progressive’ southern farmers that “won’t sow a seed until late October / November” like they’re holding a revolver to their own temples, loaded with a single bullet.

Mmmmm. We have a bullet called blackgrass

 

[PSQ]

Mmmmm. We have a bullet called blackgrass

And we’ve learned from your mistakes: we rogue the stuff so a problem doesn’t become a disaster.

 

[Flat 10]

And we’ve learned from your mistakes: we rogue the stuff so a problem doesn’t become a disaster.

Nice. I simply can’t imagine it.

 

[e3120]

Can only speak of the area I visit on a regular basis, Millfield/Coldstream/ Lennel area, good crops as they were almost all drilled up by the end of September and beat the weather, past experience a big factor , one big rain event early October and jobs kippered.
+ been up fishing in early October and seen fields of wheat still to cut on many occasions, two sides to the coin.

There are gravel pits at Millfield, and tweedside kindness at Coldstream, so the year has lent itself to that seam. The, normally potent, heavier land up the coast hasn't enjoyed it so much. Turned out to be a decent grass season, which tells the same story

 

[casemx 270]

Flew in to EMA an hour ago , some big holes in the fields , probably look ok from the road

Probably some of ours

 

[Salopian_Will]

And we’ve learned from your mistakes: we rogue the stuff so a problem doesn’t become a disaster.

And we’ve learned from your mistakes: we rogue the stuff so a problem doesn’t become a disaster.

I think that’s a foxtail, not a black grass.

 

[Brisel]

I think that’s a foxtail, not a black grass.

@Hindsight calls it "Slender Foxtail"