How’s your OSR looking now

[T Hectares]

There you go @Acke, not sure what you thinking this Lumen, I think it's thin and weedy!!

 

[Acke]

There you go @Acke, not sure what you thinking this Lumen, I think it's thin and weedy!!

Well not so thin , possible weedy?
Have you dry conditions?

 

[Cowcorn]

There you go @Acke, not sure what you thinking this Lumen, I think it's thin and weedy!!

Thats exactly what my spring rape looked like last year . I blamed the cold wet forthnight in june and abandoned it to its own devices. Cut it in mid October after spraying it with a whiff of dessicant which shall not be named !!!! Just under a dried ton acre so not a bad result. But advancing age and old combine do not mix well with late late show harvesting so i am sticking to August harvested crops Spring rape and beans ar a pain even when the work out .

 

[Still Farming]

Not far off combining it here looks like.

 

[Brisel]

Desiccated the first 2 fields of August sown Campus this morning. The rest will follow next week.

 

[T Hectares]

Well not so thin , possible weedy?
Have you dry conditions?

Yes it's been dry but rain recently so hopefully good now

Thats exactly what my spring rape looked like last year . I blamed the cold wet forthnight in june and abandoned it to its own devices. Cut it in mid October after spraying it with a whiff of dessicant which shall not be named !!!! Just under a dried ton acre so not a bad result. But advancing age and old combine do not mix well with late late show harvesting so i am sticking to August harvested crops Spring rape and beans ar a pain even when the work out .

I'd be very happy with a tonne an acre from this!!

 

[ajd132]

Been desiccating late July/early August sown Elgar. Small seeds. Decent stems and not too much larvae. Weird crop.

 

[Pebd99]

Haven’t grown wosr for a few years. Established with a new style Moore unidrill. 3 cwt of triple 16 at sowing plus 1t/ha of fibrophos. Looks good but quite short to what I’m used to.

 

[Still Farming]

Must be getting reading, around here as the amount of pigeons mobbing into it to go by?

 

[Brisel]

Washed roots and one cut open.

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Only small patches, most of fields ok

Hard to say from the photo, but thank you. Something, probably flea beetle larvae, have damaged the lower stem. The tap root also looks damaged. When was it sown? Root fly?

 

[D14]

There you go @Acke, not sure what you thinking this Lumen, I think it's thin and weedy!!

Looks like ours last year. Unfortunately your looking at 500kg/ac yield.

 

[Laggard]

Hard to say from the photo, but thank you. Something, probably flea beetle larvae, have damaged the lower stem. The tap root also looks damaged. When was it sown? Root fly?

Drilled early August so could well be root fly, I’d forgotten about that.

 

[KennyO]

Pleased with how this is looking.

 

[Brisel]

Spraying off August sown Campus this morning. Variable field. Most ok but some pretty thin.

 

[Renaultman]

Spraying off August sown Campus this morning. Variable field. Most ok but some pretty thin.

Looks well. A lot of mine's still yellow, cutting OSR and wheat at the same time this year iiirc

 

[Clive]

I’ve seen a few patches of winter osr flowering again at the moment ! i mean full yellow, like secondary shoots, you would think it spring rape in the winter if you didn’t know it wasn‘t , god know when you desiccate or harvest a crop like that ?

 

[Renaultman]

I’ve seen a few patches of winter osr flowering again at the moment ! i mean full yellow, like secondary shoots, you would think it spring rape in the winter if you didn’t know it wasn‘t , god know when you desiccate or harvest a crop like that ?

I have one field like this, the rest slightly better but I predict a lot of red and shed seed. Hoping the podstick does what it says on the tin and I have the patience to hold off with the glyphosate, for the first time in my life.

 

[willy]

Osr is becoming a nightmare crop, the problem is what fills the rotation gap (profitably)

 

[shakerator]

I’ve seen a few patches of winter osr flowering again at the moment ! i mean full yellow, like secondary shoots, you would think it spring rape in the winter if you didn’t know it wasn‘t , god know when you desiccate or harvest a crop like that ?

the weather was so dry at first flowering herebasically no pods were formed , and pollen beetle kept munching any flowers which did open ! Fert overlaps fine ! Have been looking at a field of bolting cabbages for about 6 weeks hoping some more pods are going to set - I left the crop as the tap roots werestill sucking up moisture - so hopefullyscrape 1t/ha

 

[Brisel]

Osr is becoming a nightmare crop, the problem is what fills the rotation gap (profitably)

We've been having that conversation again here yesterday. The new agent here isn't keen on winter beans on chalk so I showed him some I drilled for @tw15 that look great & he hasn't spent much on them. Even 1 tonne/acre of osr grown cheaply makes most other combinable break crops look poor. This morning's job is playing around with a spreadsheet that shows the osr yield equivalent of most other break crops. No demand for maize around here and we're definitely not suited to root crops. We're not set up for grass seed either though a few locals are doing that quite well. Peas on flinty ground will break the combine and the driver! Just need to find a nurse crop to keep them standing but a spring rape companion isn't really an option.