How’s your OSR looking now

[Hindsight]

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?

Not reliant on CTL there is genetic resistance to Septoria and other chemical control. Glyphosate a totally different situation.

 

[ajd132]

Not reliant on CTL there is genetic resistance to Septoria and other chemical control. Glyphosate a totally different situation.

Fair point. I’m just trying to point out that we are dangerously reliant on a few things judging by the amount of osr that has been lost on this thread.

 

[ajd132]

Travelling well on the zero till clay here in suffolk

 

[Laggard]

View attachment 850854Travelling well on the zero till clay here in suffolk

Looking good. Did you bale the straw? My tramlines are very wet because of the chopped straw in my zero tilled OSR.

 

[ajd132]

Looking good. Did you bale the straw? My tramlines are very wet because of the chopped straw in my zero tilled OSR.

No we chopped the straw, was spring barley.

 

[JD6920s]

No we chopped the straw, was spring barley.

And how and when did you establish the crop please?
It looks very even

 

[ajd132]

And how and when did you establish the crop please?
It looks very even

2.5 inch Dutch points on sprinter. Deliberately offset to go in between last years rows as it very neatly cleans away the chopped straw without ripping out the stubble. I’m really pleased how it’s worked.

 

[Laggard]

2.5 inch Dutch points on sprinter. Deliberately offset to go in between last years rows as it very neatly cleans away the chopped straw without ripping out the stubble. I’m really pleased how it’s worked.

That’s awesome

 

[Jack Russell]

2.5 inch Dutch points on sprinter. Deliberately offset to go in between last years rows as it very neatly cleans away the chopped straw without ripping out the stubble. I’m really pleased how it’s worked.

What sort of tonnage of straw will you have to chop? When we chop the spring Barley straw we cant see stubble due to the volume of straw. I don’t like copping it to dust as it creates a very wet layer, I tend to chop it to 2-4" lengths.

 

[ajd132]

What sort of tonnage of straw will you have to chop? When we chop the spring Barley straw we cant see stubble due to the volume of straw. I don’t like copping it to dust as it creates a very wet layer, I tend to chop it to 2-4" lengths.

The spring barley did about 8t/ha of grain yield not sure about straw yield. Cut it as high as we can though. Below pic was taken on same field.

 

[Brisel]

Mine brackles over so quickly I'd never get half the ears if I cut that high!

 

[ajd132]

Mine brackles over so quickly I'd never get half the ears if I cut that high!

It’s usually green when we cut it

 

[Mr Charisma]

Local bee group are now regretting the ban on neo nics as they are now wondering what there bees are going to do for early flowing plants, I told local bee man that I'm afraid its a double whammy as I don't know of any beans planted either,,,,, he went into melt down

 

[Hindsight]

Local bee group are now regretting the ban on neo nics as they are now wondering what there bees are going to do for early flowing plants, I told local bee man that I'm afraid its a double whammy as I don't know of any beans planted either,,,,, he went into melt down

Yes, similar here. I am waiting for the general news headline in a couple of years - bit along lines of 'bee numbers decline further since ban on neonic insecticides - intensive agriculture to blame with dramatic increase in alternative insecticides' Hey ho.

 

[willy]

The ground is bare the countryside seems dead, except a load of raptors and badgers, really quite depressing place to be atm.

Even the rabbits are gone, god knows what these raptors are going to eat next.

 

[John Slejpner]

Looking like a disaster again in N Beds. Much less grown than previously. A huge biomass, early drilled on digestate crop i drive pass on a daily basis has gone backwards considerably in the last month. I hope it is a combination of wet and pigeons, but don't think it is either.

 

[Brisel]

Lots of mine has less than half the biomass it had in November, but is still ok. If the rest of the winter s benign it should still make a half decent crop. Just cashed in last year's harvest at £340/t + bonuses for March 2020.

 

[teslacoils]

Only three decent fields in a ten mile radius of here.

 

[Renaultman]

Lots of mine has less than half the biomass it had in November, but is still ok. If the rest of the winter s benign it should still make a half decent crop. Just cashed in last year's harvest at £340/t + bonuses for March 2020.

Nice price. Mine is the same, triple pronged attack flea beetle, slugs and pigeons are hurting. Plenty of plants but they can't seem to get away

 

[DrWazzock]

Walked over rape stubbles that were hitherto covered in rape volunteers. They established themselves well and looked good in November. Left them alone as wasn't drilling wheat due to rain. They are now almost all dead or severely stunted due to what seems like rampant cabbage root fly damage. Pull at these bonsai plants and they slip straight out of the soil as they have no root hairs or lateral roots whatsoever, just a brown tap root which appears to have been damaged internally. I think I found a larva coming out of a root but couldn't quite see without my glasses.
My September drilled rape, the 30% that survived the flea beetle grazing looks OK, and hasn't been affected in the same way. For me this is a warning that very early drilling could be as big a disaster as late drilling. I'd say aim for 21st August this year if trying again. Drilled my stubble turnips around that date and they seem ok though not much bulb.

It might be CSFB larvae that has knobbled my volunteers. They are certainly a sorry sight.