4course
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and how is it looking re the dreaded csfb?
and how is it looking re the dreaded csfb?
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Campus home sown seed 60/m2 drilled 6/9/19. Not bad? That’s 2/3 of the 8ha field. The far end of this field looks like this;
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Not so good. Glyphosate and some cheap cover crop seed for this to keep the soil alive until harvest, I think.
Can you put some phacelia in the mix to make it look good , just thinking of my view . You could just try some raddish in that bit and take it to seed, combine it and then have some hss raddish seed
And a bit of ploughing I believe!You’re doing the same. You tell us. You might be no tilling but you’re still manipulating nature for commercial gain.
It's a weird crop, there are certainly no formulae for growing it. Gutted it has beaten me this year but coming to terms with the fact that yields will be dire.View attachment 871178
starting to pod up here reasonably well, doing it as cheap as possible is paying off so far. Well aware it could be a completely different story next year.
This photo that Green oak put up shows it all, how demoralising. Any farmer with a crop like that last October would be extremely pleased but around our area it seems the best looking October crops have gone backwards and ones that didn't look so great then are looking ok. Its pure luck if you end up with a reasonable crop to harvest at the moment.October and today. Full of maggots.
Not wishing to be excessively negative, but its fate is pretty much sealed the day it is drilled without an effective insecticide dressingJust jumping in here to let people know I am looking for folks to trial a new tool developed by FERA that is hoping to improve your OSR performance through better spray management.
details can be found here:
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/free-cropmonitor-pro-licence.314499/