How’s your OSR looking now

Green oak

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Got loads of it just like your pictures or even worse round here. Bloody stuff just will not grow.
Noticed something similar last year, but not anything like as bad. So it’s definitely getting worse.
The only decent rape there is round here is on boys land.
That's bad, and has pretty much confirmed that osr is a dodo of a crop for us.
the good bits which have flower have a maggot half way up the stork. I can see them lodging as they get some weight on later in the season. So all is going to be ripped up. In June/ July. And be a first wheat.
 

An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
Mine is also very disappointing. I have been putting it down to being hungry for N. Applied first dose in good time in early Feb. After that it rained in a biblical way. The remaining dose didn’t go on until late March when it dries up. Since then we have had no rain, not even any few to wash it in and a biting east wind that has dried everything up. All crops are going backwards and hungry for N. Desperately need rain to wash it in. Never had the place looking so poor in early April.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
For those of you with a reasonable plant count but little growth and a larval burden, what are you doing? Low input, carry on as before and hope it grows away, walk away now until pre harvest glyphosate or spray it off and try something else?
 

An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
For those of you with a reasonable plant count but little growth and a larval burden, what are you doing? Low input, carry on as before and hope it grows away, walk away now until pre harvest glyphosate or spray it off and try something else?

It’s had everything now bar a Sclerotinia flowering fungicide. Might as well keep going now:confused: That’s the trouble with OSR all the costs are front end loaded.
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
For those of you with a reasonable plant count but little growth and a larval burden, what are you doing? Low input, carry on as before and hope it grows away, walk away now until pre harvest glyphosate or spray it off and try something else?
Pulled some up yesterday and drilled it with barley will have to make my mind up about the other field this week it's getting thinner I'm really in experienced with this rape malarkey
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Pulled some up yesterday and drilled it with barley will have to make my mind up about the other field this week it's getting thinner I'm really in experienced with this rape malarkey
Oh and what's left has been sprayed with kerb can you safely drill barley into it
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Oh and what's left has been sprayed with kerb can you safely drill barley into it

According to most propyzamide labels, no. I’d plough it to disperse the chemical. When was the Kerb applied? What does it say on the label regarding interval to the next crop?
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
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About 4-5 flea beetle larvae per plant here. All in the main stem now. I’m thinking 160 kg N and nothing else until pre harvest desiccation.
 

An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
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About 4-5 flea beetle larvae per plant here. All in the main stem now. I’m thinking 160 kg N and nothing else until pre harvest desiccation.

I thought, all winter, how Lucky I was that at least I had a good Rape crop and had escaped the ravages and failures some had from CSFB. Now we have succumbed to larvae problems. It’s just gets worse, every turn there is a new problem. Just praying we don’t get a washout harvest as that really will put the icing on the cake ?
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
According to most propyzamide labels, no. I’d plough it to disperse the chemical. When was the Kerb applied? What does it say on the label regarding interval to the next crop?
Spoke to agronamist he say no go only sprayed February he say leave what's there half crop if I'm lucky
 

willy

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
How are some of these crops which where planted first week in august doing, surley they too are full of csfb and probably monster black grass.
 

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