How are your crops looking ?
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d williams
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I think it's just the year crops need temperature and it's not happening yet our barley is still suffering stress I think and hope from wet winter and cold but nature always works out
I felt things looked pretty reasonable here through the winter but almost seem to have gone backward this spring, everything looks like it wants N despite having plenty under it
maybe I should have stayed on holiday a week longer and stop looking until it warms up !
Winter crops look well, but we seem to have taken a step back with BG control trying to grow second wheat which we won't do anymore. Spring beans are slow but have established reasonably well.
Reflection wheat is full of disease though, my neighbours also looks the same.
Reflection wheat is full of disease though, my neighbours also looks the same.
This year they are a real mixed bag, most of the winter wheat looks strong with some good potential, the osr i think looks a bit short and thin but could compensate with a long flowering period. The spring wheat looks generally pretty poor it will do well to cover variable costs and the peas and maize either hasn't been drilled or hasn't emerged.
Winter wheat looks good, spring beans are up and looking nice and neat, spring wheat has been hammered by slugs, hampered by chopped straw, and not helped by drilling too deep to get it away from the avadex, neighbours conventional drilled sp wheat looks much better.
Oh and wosr is as good as I've seen for a few years now.
Still learning, now contemplating baling straw again ahead of spring wheat as it's a match for the neighbours in any bare areas. More n ahead of drilling so it's there ready for it.
Oh and wosr is as good as I've seen for a few years now.
Still learning, now contemplating baling straw again ahead of spring wheat as it's a match for the neighbours in any bare areas. More n ahead of drilling so it's there ready for it.
Feel we have gone back also with the blackgrass this year. Autumn Atlantis did next to nothing, Spring applications have done a much better job.
Our reflection wheat has been slow to get going, OK on the brash but less so on the heavier ground. Is showing some yellow rust so fairly robust t1. Skyfall not looking too bad.
Volume winter barley looking less happy with patches showing bydv.
Overall looked well at xmas, but gone backwards since and not a pretty picture. Will be interesting to see how people feel about their no till crops as our worst looking fields are those that were ploughed.
Vernon
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Winter cereals as you describe, looks OK but short on N. WOSR reasonable, but some very bad pigeon damage. Spring crops adequate to bad.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
It's freezing cold and drizzling, winter linseed simply can't get going and the pigeons are feasting. Wheat looks reasonable but needs sunshine.
I need sunshine and warmth come to think of it.
Mixed results about here.
Generally light land winter crops are looking hungry but ok. Heavier land has gone backwards a lot in last week.
Could be the year that those who sow thick will win this year.
Spring crops are generally looking ok, although most wetter soils have only been sown in last ten days.
Generally light land winter crops are looking hungry but ok. Heavier land has gone backwards a lot in last week.
Could be the year that those who sow thick will win this year.
Spring crops are generally looking ok, although most wetter soils have only been sown in last ten days.
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
WOSR. Looks mostly well tho later flowering than most in the vicinity due to later planting .
WB looks very well , I got on and gave it a little N very early , most folk said I was way to soon , with hindsight no I was not , finished giving its N last week along with T1 fungicides so the pressure is of those fields .
WW looks well mainly , nearly all has sludge or fym under its feet. Ferty spreader was stood one day so I got the lad to put another dressing of N on a couple of weeks ago , so glad I did now and at the next opportunity it will have another dose but would like the weather to calm a bit . Glad I've got a T0 on the wheat , leaf 3 is now out but unlikely to see a fungicides this week going by the forecast.
SB , conventionally drilled SB looks well
Peas are in the ground , time will tell
Linseed hopefully will drill half tomorrow , the other half I'm hoping to direct drill but time will tell
WB looks very well , I got on and gave it a little N very early , most folk said I was way to soon , with hindsight no I was not , finished giving its N last week along with T1 fungicides so the pressure is of those fields .
WW looks well mainly , nearly all has sludge or fym under its feet. Ferty spreader was stood one day so I got the lad to put another dressing of N on a couple of weeks ago , so glad I did now and at the next opportunity it will have another dose but would like the weather to calm a bit . Glad I've got a T0 on the wheat , leaf 3 is now out but unlikely to see a fungicides this week going by the forecast.
SB , conventionally drilled SB looks well
Peas are in the ground , time will tell
Linseed hopefully will drill half tomorrow , the other half I'm hoping to direct drill but time will tell
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
After finishing T0's last week, i'm pleasantly surprised by how well everything is looking, even the wheat that we have had slug trouble with is looking quite respectable!
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
I'm pleased enough with my crops wheat looks well even the nov drilled after maize has moved on. Black grass control is good we do have docks and irg after a silage lay but that's it . Wb moving slowly but it's thick so fingers crossed more wheat in it than I'd like to see. S beans are up in rows now. S barley is more mixed excellent on the brash sad looking on the clay but it's there .
TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
pictures!...please pictures of crop you say is struggling after winter...i would love to compare to the train wrecks ive had after winter!....
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Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Spring barley drilled 15/3/16 spray scorch and cold weather hasn't helped it.Winter barley looks crap too , wheat looks only ok . No records will be broken this year here.
Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
Manganese problem
Good job it's not all over.
'Kin awful. Desperately need some warm weather.
shakerator
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- Location
- LINCS
BYDV?
Wheat. good in places. most average. annoying spots of bydv. a lot of bgrass
Winter beans- very forward, chocolate spot evident, desperate for sun, BUT have tolerated wet well
Spring balrey- decent, but on kind land
Spring oats- poor. drilled too deep. slugs grazing shoots. tilled areas better. over estimated their ability to tolerate cold wet clay
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Douglasmn
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Like to think everything looking ok. Wheat all looking really well except around 5 acres that seems to be a bit stressed, probably manganese. Spring barley looking good enough but warm wrather and rain badly needed. Grazing grass is ok and silage grass looking really well. Tatties and peas which are contracted out still not in the ground yet.
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Winter wheat average to good.
Winter barley ragged with some BYDV but ok.
Spring barley mostly very good some poor due to bulb fly.
Linseed fine.
Winter beans look best of the lot (which probably means too thick)
Beet good establishment but being eaten by everything that can fly.
Winter barley ragged with some BYDV but ok.
Spring barley mostly very good some poor due to bulb fly.
Linseed fine.
Winter beans look best of the lot (which probably means too thick)
Beet good establishment but being eaten by everything that can fly.