High pressure till end of april

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Risk of volatilisation with urea is quite high, I remember going round the kareema growhow facility on the Wirral many moons ago and they said that’s the biggest risk of their end product.

Known that for years down here. Why are you only catching on now?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

extensive independent trials by our Department of Agriculture years ago showed that losses from urea due to volatilisation were not as high as thought.
I have actually posted the findings on TFF a few times now, but couldn’t be fudgeed looking for it again . . .

Any loss is a loss though. Increases the high price already. SOA is a safer bet without moisture available.

 

[Renaultman]

Cant remember these temps being this low , but my memory is carp!

I'm sure they weren't, I was worrying about Vernalization last year, this year I'm wishing I had drilled some of my left over Winter wheat in the spring.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Any loss is a loss though. Increases the high price already. SOA is a safer bet without moisture available.

that’s why we always used to pre sow our urea or anhydrous ammonia, or modify planters to apply it at planting, or, in the case of summer row crops - side dress it. But spreading urea in crop ( for cool season crops anyway ) has become a LOT more popular here in the last 10 yrs or so

 

[serf]

I'm sure they weren't, I was worrying about Vernalization last year, this year I'm wishing I had drilled some of my left over Winter wheat in the spring.

Correct , some wheat over this way was mown and baled last year .

 

[farmerm]

and so it continues....

 

[farmerm]

So what’s the BS saying for no rain at all

There is always a splash, even if it is only dew

Next saying will be "Dry in May, constant rain on the droughted hay"

 

[Northern territory]

Hasn’t the weather be come totally predictable in a lot of ways. Very dry springs , unsettled summer and very wet winters.

 

[jondear]

“Oak before ash only a splash....” oaks are very clearly leading the race here, though I guess I may yet find the ash trees have all quit running

Their all Fecking dead that's why!

 

[farmerm]

Their all Fecking dead that's why!

probably does that mean its now oak before ash and therefore dry spring forever??

 

[Classichay]

Another frost here this morning, hutchinsons haven’t sold anywhere near as much Chem they were expecting. Warehouse looked alarmingly overfilled yesterday morning,

 

[jondear]

Ye

probably does that mean its now oak before ash and therefore dry spring forever??

Yep pretty much .
Unless change to elm before oak(soak) !Which is always first .Then it dies 10 years later !

 

[Brisel]

that’s why we always used to pre sow our urea or anhydrous ammonia, or modify planters to apply it at planting, or, in the case of summer row crops - side dress it. But spreading urea in crop ( for cool season crops anyway ) has become a LOT more popular here in the last 10 yrs or so

What do you mean by spreading in the crop? Broadcasting urea onto the soil surface? That's a bit risky without moisture and in wide row spacing. For broadacre/dryland cropping at Moree we either put urea down the spout in May with the wheat seed in June. Both with soil moisture. For cotton it was incorporated or dissolved in the irrigation water (which killed the fish in the storage reservoirs when pumped back in!).

 

[DrWazzock]

Well I’m resigned to it now. Going to be a ton an acre down at least. We have lost too much of the season peeing about with dry and frost plus mauled in winter crops. Prices should be rising. Won’t be much surplus here anyway.

 

[DrWazzock]

Just to add my hay customers are tearing it away.

 

[teslacoils]

BBC said three more dry weeks....

 

[Northern territory]

BBC said three more dry weeks....

It was end of May early June before we got any significant moisture last year.

 

[teslacoils]

It was end of May early June before we got any significant moisture last year.

Yup. My spring cereals were very stripey.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

It was end of September early October before we got any significant moisture last year.

Edited that for the far south-east

 

[Bossfarmer]

another month without rain shouldnt be an issue, if theres nothing by june then its time to worry