Thanks but you also need to follow the replies. The crop is identifying every land drain.
I am leaving mine mainly due to late kerb applied. Apart from harvest dessication, I doubt it will have any more expenditure. It has actually grown quite a bit in the last week. I will just have to gather what’s left come harvest.Had a look today, not just wet feet stems have larvae in. Whether a bit of good weather will allow it to power away from it, only time will tell.
the plan here is to sow spring osr today/tommorrow, this is a pure gamble I fear
Taking one for the team Well done.the plan here is to sow spring osr today/tommorrow, this is a pure gamble I fear
feels like it ,having a go to help us get rotation back in line next year,hoping its better than fallow its years since we grew itTaking one for the team Well done.
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the good and the bad, luckily most is looking more like the good. The bad stuff is all after hybrid winter barley, everything else after spring barley. guess which field had straw left wet in the swath for two weeks?! I should have drilled this field with a tine drill and not the disc drill.
We used an avatar into stripper headed spring barley which is the best field, and also the worst. But I think this is down to my management and not realising about changing coulter pressure etc after abit of rain so punching a whole chunk in too deep and slugs got some underground. The sprinter is generally more even into tall chopped spring barley and all looks pretty good.That looks the best osr I have seen this year (well done), what disc drill do you use? I know you have a sprinter.
I ve got one field, not had Osr for 10 years looking ok, not perfect but overall good for year. The other 3 fields had Osr 5 years ago and are looking crap, one stem which is barely flowering or growing and although a few branches growing now they have larve inside . Really depressing looking at it every day( right near house). No more OSR here it would seem .
Looks fantastic wish all mine looked the same.I have one similar,another nearly as good and three that look very average at best.Another patch away on another farm looks poorish but it did have about 8 river floods on it.Been for a walk about the off ground this evening. The rape there isn’t looking too shabby now. Wish the stuff at home looked as good.
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Looks megaBeen for a walk about the off ground this evening. The rape there isn’t looking too shabby now. Wish the stuff at home looked as good.
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2 fields sown thursday 1 to go but at the miniscule seedrate advised we havnt got enough to finish the last one so have held off buts its worked and rolled down ,tue if seed arrives, first 2 sown into a bit of moisture and all rolled in what looks to be a good seedbed but im having great difficulty in finding the seed as my eyes arnt as good as they once were.Am not going back to field till we get a rain !!Good luck 4course, hope you get some warm rains to get it going. Let us know how it goes.
YesHas anyone got osr on virgin ground, and how is it?
I think whilst csfb are a big thing, there is a bit more to this.