Is it to late for nitrogen on wheat?

[benny6910]

I’ve been offered a field of wheat that has had no n so far this year. Pictures taken today is it too late to gain any yield boost with expense n I have left. Agronomist says it probably will be too late and it’s looking dry for the next week or so here.

 

[Hampton]

Depends what you are paying for it.
I’d bang a couple of cwt on, at the very least it will turn chaff into decent grains of wheat

 

[benny6910]

Depends what you are paying for it.
I’d bang a couple of cwt on, at the very least it will turn chaff into decent grains of wheat

I have to make an offer so was just trying to work out a price.

 

[teslacoils]

Get some bagged AN, or some with sulphur. At the very least it will green it up. Not a lot. 50kgN.

Fert is cheap now and protein is dear. Also looks like you're "doing some farming" so might get offered it for another few years.

 

[benny6910]

Get some bagged AN, or some with sulphur. At the very least it will green it up. Not a lot. 50kgN.

Fert is cheap now and protein is dear. Also looks like you're "doing some farming" so might get offered it for another few years.

No chance of getting it again as it’s getting developed. So don’t want to waste anything on it.

 

[horizontal]

With wheat price where it is I wouldn’t bother taking it on unless you need the straw or you can get it for next to nothing.

 

[Adeptandy]

Get an ibc of N28 and add little and often to the leaf.

 

[Old apprentice]

Dissolve urea and spray it on do it a few times won't leave n in soil I would think.

 

[teslacoils]

No chance of getting it again as it’s getting developed. So don’t want to waste anything on it.

Ah well. do you know the variety?

 

[benny6910]

Ah well. do you know the variety?

Not at the moment, will try and find out tomorrow.

 

[David.]

To be honest, all the wheat of my childhood looked like that, owing to the ancestors being unwilling to put more than 2 cwt/ac of Nitro Chalk on.
It will still do 2.5t/ac if you keep disease out.
I'd spend the money on a decent T2/3. With Mn and Mg.
And furthermore, if it stays damp and sunless for grainfill, all these "dead cert' " 5ton crops will be chicken corn, and that will be nice and plump, just like when in 2012, the best sample in the field was the starved bit around the hedge backs.

 

[AndrewM]

could put some of that effiecient N foliar n on with the t2, no point putting bagged n on without rain forecast

 

[eagleye]

another vote for foliar N, early morning or late at night to give plant time for uptake.

 

[benny6910]

N applied this morning see if I’ve wasted my time and money in 10 weeks time

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Just finished our last N on the wheat yesterday, mind I have been layed up for 5 days with some kind of lurgy

 

[Steevo]

Just finished our last N on the wheat yesterday, mind I have been layed up for 5 days with some kind of lurgy

Still got some to go on milling wheat here but there doesn't look to be much rain forecast for the rest of this month.

Not that any fields look to be suffering from lack of N at the moment.

 

[4course]

Dissolve urea and spray it on do it a few times won't leave n in soil I would think.

im with you on this, works a treat and feeds the crop once into approaching flag leaf and beyond

 

[4course]

With wheat price where it is I wouldn’t bother taking it on unless you need the straw or you can get it for next to nothing.

years ago must be( 30) bought a poor standing crop of wheat at roadside auction when the auctioneer knocked it down to me i put the straw up made almost as much as the standing crop and the wh yielded about 2 t /ac one of the better deals ive done