Maize 2016

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
All ploughed up, limed, subsoiled and ready. Going to be drilling on Sunday .. under plastic contractor & God willing.

And very tempted to take 5 acres of IRG too as it's the length of my arm
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
And your on boys ground!(y)

Some of it is a Frome Series alluvial silt. In english it ploughs like sticky Plasticine with flints in it. its either too wet or too dry to get a decent seedbed. The rest has had all the FYM spread. One rented field needs glyphosate. TB test next week so not a huge amount going to be ploughed just yet.

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Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
stubbles still to spray off...:eek:..been poor spray days.(few docks -else i would save a cost and time ) - but still seems far too cold here - what/where is the best value (cheap) soil temperature probe ?? - as a matter of interest.
 

rjs15t

Member
Location
Newquay
What should it be when considering maize drilling?
10°C and rising, hopefully!!

It can't all be drilled on the same day, some people are brave and Drill at 10°C regardless. Some Drill when there's warmth forecast.

Then when it's about 4-6" high it turns cold!!
 

MickW

Member
Location
South West
Soil is far too cold here. Haven't even got my themometer out yet. Haven't ploughed a field yet either.

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The soils temperature at St Neots has reached 9.5 Celsius but the ground is still ver wet over 40% but this is on really heavy land
Checked via Soil Scout a few moments ago
See attached graph
 

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Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
stubbles still to spray off...:eek:..been poor spray days.(few docks -else i would save a cost and time ) - but still seems far too cold here - what/where is the best value (cheap) soil temperature probe ?? - as a matter of interest.

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I have a couple of these. Freebies from some agchem meeting. They need a couple of minutes to settle down. I put the tip in 4" and have a mark where this is level with the surface.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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