Hey, it’s early January and it’s -5 degrees tonight, isn’t it about time for people to...

[Flintstone]

....get some early N on their backward crops.

 

[7610 super q]

Proper farmers go up to the loft, retrieve old copies of Farmers Weekly, scan those T sum charts, and make up their own up to date versions.

 

[Still Farming]

Proper farmers go up to the loft, retrieve old copies of Farmers Weekly, scan those T sum charts, and make up their own up to date versions.

And when T200 came it rained non stop untill heading date or went like the serengeti????

 

[yellow belly]

....get some early N on their backward crops.

i mentioned this to my agronomist and his view was that soil temperatures are way to low

i do have half my wheat after beans

in the 1970s the view was put some on a frost but then we had dryer winters
now with wetter winters it will get washed away before it is available

 

[Flintstone]

I was joking to be honest...

 

[Wombat]

....get some early N on their backward crops.

In what a hovercraft?

 

[robs1]

If it was 7th feb I would get a few kg of urea on.

 

[steveR]

....get some early N on their backward crops.

Ahhh the Glory Days

I used to be on the lookout for a couple of hard frosts to get a first top dressing of N on our sticky wheat and, from 3rd week of Jan, but preferred a little later. T200 was more a guide i reckoned really...

LGP equipment allowed a bit more flexibility, the contractor's Agribuggy was a revelation, then I kitted up with a quad and a Logic tandem axle 12m fert spreader.

 

[Flat 10]

Go ploughing

 

[teslacoils]

Tbh I was considering ploughing out a grass lay a year early.

 

[Goldilocks]

....get some early N on their backward crops.

Have to finish autumn drilling first ! got an all nighter on tonight direct drilling winter beans......

 

[Flat 10]

Supposed to be coldest night of the year last night, not here no frost by 10.30pm and at 7am this morning mud in yard wouldn’t even bear my weight puddles didn’t have 1/8th inch on, shame as I was prepped to drill beans

 

[7610 super q]

FW always had a stock photo of a 2wd Ford 6710 putting fert on wheat. The ground was frozen solid. Might have even had some snow on it. Halcyon days.

Anyhoo....way, way too wet to consider doing anything here, even ploughing.

 

[Farma Parma]

9/10 years your doing well to get some early N on OSR by the end of Feb never mind the start of it. its still pretty much winter & can be right thru march also.
some springs its april before there is a single spring crop sown, you get used too it

 

[Hesstondriver]

Proper farmers go up to the loft, retrieve old copies of Farmers Weekly, scan those T sum charts, and make up their own up to date versions.

Could you post them on here please. Just for nostalgia of course

 

[DRC]

We had -5 on Thursday morning . Used the opportunity to get some MOP on.

 

[farmerm]

Its ok my wheat will be getting plenty of N from the volunteer beans... incidentally, just to hijack this thread.. are there any herbicide options to take beans out of wheat if ground is frozen (which is the only time it might be fit to travel).. and don't say a hand hoe! Mind you the kids are "home schooling" maybe they can earn their keep

 

[Flat 10]

Its ok my wheat will be getting plenty of N from the volunteer beans... incidentally, just to hijack this thread.. are there any herbicide options to take beans out of wheat if ground is frozen (which is the only time it might be fit to travel).. and don't say a hand hoe! Mind you the kids are "home schooling" maybe they can earn their keep

What’s the rush? Wait until it warms up than cmpp? I think spitfire only legal option?

 

[farmerm]

What’s the rush? Wait until it warms up than cmpp? I think spitfire only legal option?

the beans are not about 90% ground coverage on one 10ac field not sure there will be any wheat still alive by time it warms up

 

[Flat 10]

the beans are not about 90% ground coverage on one 10ac field not sure there will be any wheat still alive by time it warms up

Yes not ideal....