How’s your OSR looking now
- Thread starter Clive
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- Darlington
I walked some unsprayed wheat after OSR today, it is amazing how little volunteer OSR there is in it. Virtually none. I would love to think it was due to the excellence of my combine set up but doubt it.
The flea beetle ate all the volunteer OSR in last years sugar beet and even had a go at the charlock.
Small but an ok plant population. This has lost a lot of biomass since October. About 1/4 of the plants have CSFB larvae in the leaf petioles and it’s clear which plants are clean as they are growing faster and are greener. Sown 27/8/19.
A surprising number of slugs about...! Hopefully they will drown this weekend.
What would graze the plants off at ground level? Hares? Deer?
snipe
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- Location
- west yorkshire
Left drilled early August, right drilled 30th August. Where the caterpillars have eaten the stalks they have started to put roots out. I hope the make it to the ground to anchor the plant, not much left holding it up.
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Hi @Brisel I have the same in some OSR, the plants are almost cut off from the root but not eaten. I have been digging about today for any soil borne pests but can't find any. Possibly rats but no droppings, too close to a road for deer or hares, possibly rabbits but again plants not eaten. To further confuse things the plants are then being pulled underground but I think this is worms. The stems do look as if they could have been grazed by slugs and then snapped off in the wind?
Minesapint
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- Location
- Oxon
Mice?
Not impossible, mine had a big dose of pig FYM which could have encouraged them if there was any feed or grain left in the muck. It is in the middle of the field, would mice be more round headlands where they could nest?
Minesapint
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- Location
- Oxon
I'm no expert, but think field mice will live anywhere in the field if the conditions are right. Certainly used to plough up quite a few many years ago when we actually used a plough. Had similar damage in small beet plants in Norfolk, many many years ago on my Sandwich year, and that was attributed to mice.
Try to succeed
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I’ve never seen that before. Have you had that occur before? Does it hinder yield at all?
snipe
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- Location
- west yorkshire
Never had it before. I refuse to spend anything on it till I have a better idea it will produce a crop. Started seeing it back in October, think the crop was too forward or too thick. I’m really impressed so far how it has kept growing and is trying to regenerate. Green looper caterpillar about an inch long.
Could the slugs be eating them at ground level? Will you pellet your rape when it talks about keeping fine for more than a day?
have you applied Astro kerb.
rob h
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- Location
- east yorkshire
I don’t think any of our 40a of rape is worth leaving. Unless it picks up dramatically in the next few weeks it will be sprayed off when it eventually drys off enough to travel.
Yes, in mid December
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Went to a presentation by Philip Wright the cultivation guy, and as a result of his experiences in Eastern Europe where mice are at plague levels where min- till is practised, he is anticipating mice problems in this country too in similar conditions.
- Location
- Peterborough
Glad to hear. We’ve opted for quite a few acres of this and just got accepted in mid- tier CSS. New land to us and very low OM levels need raising.
Interesting because my rape had dinner plates for leaves and since my Astro kerb it’s gone backwards. And looks just like your example.
- Location
- Peterborough
Just to put us back on thread.
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