How are your crops looking ?

[richard hammond]

I thought you didn't like Revelation?

Is the Planet earlier maturing than Propino?

Brisel, we all comment a bit to quick in my opinion, I hated Reflection in April because of Yellow Rust, I treated the problem robustly and today
I would not suggest it could not be a top yielder for GM results, might be wrong!

 

[Heathland]

I thought you didn't like Revelation?

Is the Planet earlier maturing than Propino?

Arrrrrgh.
It was looking fantastic until this frigging June,and last year was a cock up with the agronomist.
The Planet is about 3 days in front of Propino,dropping Propino next year for Planet it's more vigorous in spring and so makes it better for b/g control on my heavy ground,they both look good to be fair and by all accounts hopefully will be better than the WB being cut around me now with reports coming back saying they are pretty dismal.

 

[Brisel]

Revelation here looked great all season but it looks like the rest now too. We'll see come harvest time.

 

[two-cylinder]

Did you apply the same fungicide programme to Revelation as your other wheats?

 

[Brisel]

Did you apply the same fungicide programme to Revelation as your other wheats?

Who was that aimed at?

A roughly similar programme, yes. Different from Diego at T1, that's all. Stil 2 SHDIs and a home made Prosaro at T3

 

[Clive]

Revelation here looked great all season but it looks like the rest now too. We'll see come harvest time.

Revelation was very much the poor realation here all season and looked rubbish until recently and now I think it has some of the best potential on the farm

 

[4course]

revelation is still green up here just starting to turn wheras others have altered very quickly in this few days of hot sun agree that it didnt look the best in spring but seems to be better now, a few patches of different soil type showing up among other fields, looks like diego is going off quickest will go and rub some out, tower barley still a way off

 

[Wombat]

Leeds is the latest, filled out massively after the april destruction. Skyfall probably next but at least a month away. Belepi turning fast, some of it will go before my weeks holiday mid August i think. Spring barley for being redrilled later looks pretty good.

 

[shakerator]

You are entirely correct Will, by being on the payroll of the only yellow weekly farming editorial does immediately elevate me to the top 5% of producers; just look a the esteemed company I keep in the journalistic world!!
The Spring drilling is going well. We didn't have a wet spring, but it never dried either but it all got drilled bar 2 small fields I kept back for drainage and experiments. My problem now is I can't see myself getting back into winter cropping on the majority of the farm as I am still getting a degree of bg seed return which is disappointing. That said looking at the fusarium about I am pleased not to have a farm full of wheat.
I demoed some disc drills last autumn and was a little disappointed. If I plan on growing much wheat I need a closer row spacing but the seedhawk is going well otherwise.

please keep writing away will, "some of us" need your column to look and point at when they are trying to justify 100% spring cropping to various paymasters ;-)

 

[shakerator]

A couple of wheat Revelation/Avatar.View attachment 367082 View attachment 367084 View attachment 367088not looking forward to the wheat's,lots of ear disease 2012 here we go again .

i think that looks good compared to many

 

[Heathland]

i think that looks good compared to many

Thanks,but when you get in them there's lots of blind sites and half dead ears in all my wheat's apart from the late drilled after beet.
There was a lot of potential pre June,but alas it's gone but I live in hope it's not as bad has I think it is.
Frigging weather.

 

[Brisel]

please keep writing away will, "some of us" need your column to look and point at when they are trying to justify 100% spring cropping to various paymasters ;-)

I'll second that! Persuading paymasters with spreadsheets that winter cropping on blackgrass infested land is unsustainable is the hard part...

 

[franklin]

Relay wheat today. Looks like it will be a while before it sees a combine. SPrayed off more OSR. 50% looks good. 10% very poor. The rest variable.

 

[Iben]

Winter barley still a week away at least, looked dire all year so brain is already clear of disappointment.

Winter oats are full of rust and dying rapidly, spring oats got a late head spray to control the rust in it and is looking good so far.

Spring barley is a bit thin due to lack of tillering in anything other than sand.

Wheat is thick enough but filling up with fusarium fast with this constant showery weather. Still a month away so sunshine could save it yet. Just no great sun anywhere in the forecast. One field is full of volunteer oats where Broadway star suppressed them until two weeks ago.

 

[jorgenbg]

I got lots of volunteer oats in my wheat.

Any combining tips? Would be nice of they could fly out the back!

More than 2% and merchant deduct 25%.

 

[franklin]

More than 2% and merchant deduct 25%.

That's crazy. Gravity seperator should be able to clean them out in the shed....

 

[PSQ]

I got lots of volunteer oats in my wheat.

More than 2% and merchant deduct 25%.

I'm guessing your either organic, or 'Axial' (100 g/l pinoxaden) is not available in Norway?

 

[jorgenbg]

That's crazy. Gravity seperator should be able to clean them out in the shed....

With the difference between milling and feed, and extra deduction on the feed.

I'm guessing your either organic, or 'Axial' (100 g/l pinoxaden) is not available in Norway?

We have axial but I thought the weed spray would kill the oats.

 

[Clive]

winter barley still a week away at least

OSR might go end of next week

wheat still quite green - 3 weeks I reckon

 

[franklin]

Keep having to remind myself that there is almost a week of July left.