How's it gone/going?

[farmerm]

The scales tipped in its favour, either plant it late at a known cost or wait til spring and be potentially shafted for spring seed by a merchant.

What would your concerns be ? If it dries up now its been saved a serious soaking

I can see your point. It certainly will have less BYVD pressure and as you say spring seed is going to be extortionate and in short supply, I cant get any merchants to offer terms on Spring Wheat. I think drilling barley in our cold, wet heavy ground here in the West would result in a known cost plus a high probability of needing to re-drilling it all in the Spring. Assuming it were to even emerge it would really struggle to grow away from the grazing pressure of even a very modest slug population! Even the one field of wheat (which is generally much more robust that Barley) I got drilled a month ago is barely up and is going backwards. , I don't see it drying up in the West for some time now! In the past 30 days the ground here has been waterlogged for 25 of them and at field capacity for the other 5, its hydroponic production!! I hope this doesn't become a normal Autumn!!

 

[Adeptandy]

I can see your point. It certainly will have less BYVD pressure and as you say spring seed is going to be extortionate and in short supply, I cant get any merchants to offer terms on Spring Wheat. I think drilling barley in our cold, wet heavy ground here in the West would result in a known cost plus a high probability of needing to re-drilling it all in the Spring. Assuming it were to even emerge it would really struggle to grow away from the grazing pressure of even a very modest slug population! Even the one field of wheat (which is generally much more robust that Barley) I got drilled a month ago is barely up and is going backwards. , I don't see it drying up in the West for some time now! In the past 30 days the ground here has been waterlogged for 25 of them and at field capacity for the other 5, its hydroponic production!! I hope this doesn't become a normal Autumn!!

Only offer I've had so far on Spring seed is..... once order placed you will have to take delivery, no cancelling of the order and price to be decided ( when they feel like it )
I won't be commiting to a vast tonnage

 

[clbarclay]

wtf?

 

[farmerm]

Only offer I've had so far on Spring seed is..... once order placed you will have to take delivery, no cancelling of the order and price to be decided ( when they feel like it )
I won't be commiting to a vast tonnage

Sounds like a very one sided arrangement! I hear some suppliers are concerned they may have already over committed more spring seed than they can actually find! Remind them you have a long memory and there are other suppliers who can take your seed and fertiliser orders next autumn....

 

[Brisel]

Seriously? Sounds like you need the negotiating power of a group.

 

[ih1455xl]

Or buy some nice feed spring barley It just so happens that I have a bin full of nice clean propino for feed off course

 

[Adeptandy]

Anyone else having the same issues with Frontier ?

I did discuss the matter at length with my chap the other day

 

[yellow belly]

Not. Been in a field since September
whatever drill would make no difference on the heavy land here they all have ( not my fields I value the soil )or would make a mess that would not be repaired till the next dry summer 2022 onwards

the only descent crops around here are on the most free draining shallow soil over limestone
On the heavy land
the weaving gd May have been able to travel but the heavy rain in the week after drilling would give a poor crop at best
manny fields drilled round here have gone backwards in the last 6 week any thing drilled regardless of drill or cultivation since mid November stands in water in every hollow headland and wheeling
the driest fields (least amount of standing water after the rain has stopped )I have are uncultivated stubble which has been moledrained in the last couple of years