How’s your OSR looking now

[snarling bee]

Looks okay here. Cheaply grown. Looks like a good margin. Will try again this year with farm saved seed, nothing to lose.
@snarling bee continuous milling wheat including spring wheat?
if costs are at the level I think we should be aiming for it does make everything profitable

I think you have to take it field by field. On the heavy clay Winter Wheat will work until the blackgrass gets to unmanageable levels, the slightly lighter ground will probably need a break. Spring Wheat will probably have a place to break the blackgrass, and possibly spring barley, or a cover crop fallow. We can only do pulses once every 6/8 years IME, OSR is such a risk, and winter linseed can only be grown where there is minimal BG. What else is there? If you are going to do a cover crop fallow then it needs an autumn and a then spring/summer cover so that we can spray glypho on the BG mid season IMO. Perhaps we go WW,WW,SW,Bns,WW,WW,SBarl,Fallow.

 

[glasshouse]

I think you have to take it field by field. On the heavy clay Winter Wheat will work until the blackgrass gets to unmanageable levels, the slightly lighter ground will probably need a break. Spring Wheat will probably have a place to break the blackgrass, and possibly spring barley, or a cover crop fallow. We can only do pulses once every 6/8 years IME, OSR is such a risk, and winter linseed can only be grown where there is minimal BG. What else is there? If you are going to do a cover crop fallow then it needs an autumn and a then spring/summer cover so that we can spray glypho on the BG mid season IMO. Perhaps we go WW,WW,SW,Bns,WW,WW,SBarl,Fallow.

How about
Grass/grass/grass/ ww,/sb , beans, ww,????

 

[snarling bee]

You don't want us arable boys in the livestock job do you?? There's enough ruminants in the country as it is.
Grass is for lawns and horses.
edit: and solar parks in my case.

 

[ajd132]

I think you have to take it field by field. On the heavy clay Winter Wheat will work until the blackgrass gets to unmanageable levels, the slightly lighter ground will probably need a break. Spring Wheat will probably have a place to break the blackgrass, and possibly spring barley, or a cover crop fallow. We can only do pulses once every 6/8 years IME, OSR is such a risk, and winter linseed can only be grown where there is minimal BG. What else is there? If you are going to do a cover crop fallow then it needs an autumn and a then spring/summer cover so that we can spray glypho on the BG mid season IMO. Perhaps we go WW,WW,SW,Bns,WW,WW,SBarl,Fallow.

Quite impressed with spring wheat here although it isn’t like spring barley for the blackgrass. Spring barley can be a serious mine maker most years if you hit spec, grow it very cheaply mined. We are going to punt at a chunk of osr this year with the impending early harvest. Farm saved seed with £15/ha worth of companion crops, we would be drilling a cover crop anyway so nothing to lose really.

 

[snarling bee]

The problem I have is that I can grow milling wheat (high N), but I struggle with traditional malting barley (low N). I agree re the BG, and I have a high N malting contract this year.

 

[ajd132]

The problem I have is that I can grow milling wheat (high N), but I struggle with traditional malting barley (low N). I agree re the BG, and I have a high N malting contract this year.

Yes I have a high N contract too. I’m doing a trial this year Normal N barley where I put 80kgs/n all down the spout to see if that helps keeps levels low enough. No other n

 

[Adeptandy]

Its still green, might do better than the early drilled stuff. ( Late Sept drilled, stayed under a carpet of S Barley volunteers and emerged after Astrokerb late January )
Pleased I left it now, nearly had it up in the spring

 

[SilliamWhale]

1kg stubble turnips is £2.50

1kg rape is anything between £10 to £40 kg.

I want breeders to be paid for their efforts but the business model needs to change for osr seed sales. I presume the breeders of Sandon stubble turnips still get their money

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Managed to get 5 of our 7 fields sprayed off thissfta after a damp morning ?,

 

[Bobthebuilder]

That last field is 1 hell of a crop, tall,thick and a lot of fat pods, the rest aren’t too bad either

 

[JD6920s]

That last field is 1 hell of a crop, tall,thick and a lot of fat pods, the rest aren’t too bad either

Looks very good. Did you not consider getting a contractor with a SP to dessicate with it being so tall?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Looks very good. Did you not consider getting a contractor with a SP to dessicate with it being so tall?

Tramlines already flattened down with last couple of passes anyway so no need

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Podstick on 3weeks ago when green

 

[Adeptandy]

Podstick on 3weeks ago when green

Enjoy it while it lasts, the little shiny black things will be on the way soon I’m afraid ?

 

[ajd132]

That last field looks Insanely good

 

[Bobthebuilder]

That last field looks Insanely good

Didn’t look all that spectacular when it came through but after Christmas it just took off, I’ll stick my neck out and say it’ll be 1 of the best crops of rape in Northumberland if not further

 

[Laggard]

Getting too much smashed up stalk in the sample. I’m trying to cut as high as possible, concave set at 35mm. Any suggestions to get a better sample please?

 

[JeremyD]

Close bottom sieve? I find you can almost have it fully shut!

 

[Pilatus]

Didn’t look all that spectacular when it came through but after Christmas it just took off, I’ll stick my neck out and say it’ll be 1 of the best crops of rape in Northumberland if not further

I sincerely hope the weather holds so you can get it in the barn before the weather breaks as I gather you guys can have it pretty tough , once it starts raining. Two farmers from near Cirencester moved to Northumberland and although the land is good you need nature to be working with you, I guess the same applies if one strays over in to Scotland "be prepared to double your combine capacity to what you needed down south"

 

[Flat 10]

Getting too much smashed up stalk in the sample. I’m trying to cut as high as possible, concave set at 35mm. Any suggestions to get a better sample please?

Slow drum. Big green bits or finer stuff? If the latter more wind? Always surprised how much it needs.