How’s your OSR looking now

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Dry Fibrophos applied to seedling osr has killed the crop here in the past. Try standing in a sandstorm and you'll soon get more "exfoliation" than you bargained for.
 

Laggard

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
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Only sprayed once for volunteer wheat, no insecticide. Astrokerb to go on end of January once canopy opened up. Pigeons had a go about 6 weeks ago but haven’t recently- bangers not out yet. Old leaves covered in phoma are now senescing, no fungicide yet.
 

cousinjack

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Certainly a difficult year but walked out late (September) drilled block today that has had me concerned all autumn and was pleasantly surprised

no inputs at all so far apart from the farm saved seed and 50kgs DAP at drilling

Going to be a battle keeping pigeons off all winter but frankly I didn’t expect it to get this far


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I’m going to walk some of the more forward stuff tomorrow so will post some pictures of that - the difference just 10 days establishment date has made this year is remarkable
Frankly mine is looking worse than yours... 5 out of 6 fields are a total failure, and the remaining 1, the plants are smaller than in your picture....

Your remark on drilling dates is bang on.... 10 or so days earlier and I reckon it'd all still be going!

Mind you, we reckon we are the most southern and western grower in the U.K. ??
 

nick...

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Arable Farmer
Location
south norfolk
Mine is getting worse by the week.i gps measured 8 acres where ther is nothing on a 35 acre field and rest is slowly dissapearing.gas gun is still out and undamaged but only because it’s hidden in 4 acres of wild bird seed cover.mother(boss) is convinced it will be ok but not looked at it at all.ill probably pull some of it up in the spring and fallow it.
Nick...
 
Scruffy all over the place from plants still very small to plants 6 inches high. Bare patches on the headlands where there was any compaction !! I plan to put 50 units N on mid end of feb and see what happens, and hopefully will get a crop from most of it
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Reading through this thread and hearing about some of the losses due to one chemical being withdrawn. Are the nfu and other lobby groups, when saying we need neonics for sustainable osr production talking complete bulls**t? How can it be sustainable if a whole section of the industry collapses due to one chem going? I guess the same could be said for glyphosate or ctl. Is farming in the U.K. just ludicrously reliant on a couple of chemicals (which will get resistance eventually anyway) therefore making the industry wildly unsustainable anyway and are we just lying to ourselves about how great we are? Are we reaching the end of chemical farming?
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
Reading through this thread and hearing about some of the losses due to one chemical being withdrawn. Are the nfu and other lobby groups, when saying we need neonics for sustainable osr production talking complete bullpoo? How can it be sustainable if a whole section of the industry collapses due to one chem going? I guess the same could be said for glyphosate or ctl. Is farming in the U.K. just ludicrously reliant on a couple of chemicals (which will get resistance eventually anyway) therefore making the industry wildly unsustainable anyway and are we just lying to ourselves about how great we are? Are we reaching the end of chemical farming?
I do think we all need to keep a close eye on alternatives.
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
I do think we all need to keep a close eye on alternatives.
I’ve done lots of alternatives for osr this year and it’s looking okay, didn’t use any insecticide. But I’m not putting it down to anything I’ve done, I just don’t think we have much flea beetle in this area. There’s also been very little osr grown round here for the last 4 years. Planning another chunk next year but we may be slowly building populations up again.
 
Lost 40 acres on a farm that we do for someone else. My own at home (drilled just 24hours earlier on virgin rape ground), just about holding it's own at moment. Pigeons and rabbits hammered one corner of the field but agronomist seems happy with the rest. Time will tell. I am both optimistic but uncomfortable at the same time.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Reading through this thread and hearing about some of the losses due to one chemical being withdrawn. Are the nfu and other lobby groups, when saying we need neonics for sustainable osr production talking complete bullpoo? How can it be sustainable if a whole section of the industry collapses due to one chem going? I guess the same could be said for glyphosate or ctl. Is farming in the U.K. just ludicrously reliant on a couple of chemicals (which will get resistance eventually anyway) therefore making the industry wildly unsustainable anyway and are we just lying to ourselves about how great we are? Are we reaching the end of chemical farming?

Have you considered what the loss of non selective herbicides like glyphosate will do to your husbandry system? What will you do instead?
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Have you considered what the loss of non selective herbicides like glyphosate will do to your husbandry system? What will you do instead?
Totally agree that’s why I said the same goes for glyphosate and ctl. The point was we are so reliant on a couple of chemicals and is that sustainable in any way?
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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