Is this plant capable of yielding

[tr250]

pigeon damage and late drilling looks awful but will it recover?

 

[tr250]

 

[SilliamWhale]

The plant spacings look decent. Nice straight roots. Why not?

 

[shakerator]

Good crop imo

 

[chaffcutter]

No problem, get the first N on and watch it go !

 

[tw15]

Put plenty of n on and try to keep flying rats off it so they don't take the buds off .

 

[franklin]

Yup. Cant see any weeds. Bang 100kg N & some sulphur, but keep the grey vermin off it once stems start growing.

 

[tr250]

Glad people think it will be ok it's about 6-7 acres in a 43 acre field. My neighbors are starting to comment smiling about my direct drilling ideas

 

[glasshouse]

that will yield better than the overlush crops now with flowers out.

 

[tr250]

I feel this maybe a downside to direct drilling I've had trouble with pigeons all year from the day of drilling because it was drilled into s barley stubble with plenty of heads chopped of and they were eating barley into Nov-Dec then started on the rape

 

[Louis Mc]

I don't see what the problem is. Will be grand

 

[britt]

As long as you've got enough plants/m2 it's usually best to look after what you've got rather than start again. What you've got looks OK from the pic.
Don't worry about the neighbours. It used to make me chuckle when folks who had never even tried it told me that DD can't and wont work.
After a few years and some interest by the Ag press many a now asking questions and taking an interest. I've done quite a bit of drilling now for folks to try a bit.

 

[mikep]

Glad people think it will be ok it's about 6-7 acres in a 43 acre field. My neighbors are starting to comment smiling about my direct drilling ideas

Use the witty repost specially created for situations like this and tell them to f**k off.

 

[britt]

Use the witty repost specially created for situations like this and tell them to fudge off.

"B@llocks", is probably a better reply, as it's clear who has the bigger pair.

 

[Brisel]

You've got a good set of roots on that and enough green biomass for it to regrow strongly. Not over 5 t/ha potential but certainly 4.5+ as you have good plant spacing. Look on the bright side - no phoma or light leaf spot on leaves that don't exist!

I was at a local Velcourt unit for a meeting & their osr was precision drilled on 50 cm row spacings at 20 seeds/m2 with a Tempo maize drill - it was still too thick!

 

[tr250]

Looks like this now can't believe how it's come still a bit rubbish between hedge and headland tram looks as if I might be a little less of a laughing stock than once thought, this year anyway

 

[phil]

If you get a massive yield at harvest we don't want to know about it!

 

[Zippy768]

Looks like this now can't believe how it's come still a bit rubbish between hedge and headland tram looks as if I might be a little less of a laughing stock than once thought, this year anyway View attachment 494826

Make sure they flying rats keep away tho. Had a crop exactly like yours last year, I was so please how it had recovered. However when it began to pod up it was missing alot, I guess pigeons carried on at the buds. Unfortunately only about 900kg/acre off a 6 acre piece . Didn't cost a penny in fungicides tho . OSR never ceases to amaze me. Good luck, looking grand

 

[tr250]

If you get a massive yield at harvest we don't want to know about it!

Update on yield it did do very well indeed got weight tickets for 188 tons off 103 acres so it didn't take the average down too bad. I'm fairly sure going on trailer loads that field did more than that but no weigher to prove it

 

[britt]

I think you owe some of us a pint