Maize 2016

[More to life]

Best thing for dairy industry would be a nationwide failure of 2016 maize crop!.(Tin hat on).If you need plastic at god knows what cost should you be growing it.!

Only the proportion that doesn't grow maize

 

[holywell farmer]

Got 380 acres to go in. Sometimes to have patience is a good thing.

is it a terrible if drill after june ?

 

[Devon James]

Will be drilling near you @jondear on tues. Brother will be trying a Sfoggia drill out other way, I will have the trusty gaspardo!

 

[trebor07]

is it a terrible if drill after june ?

Sorry, you don't make sense. ?

 

[holywell farmer]

Sorry, you don't make sense. ?

is bad if have drill maize in early june ?

 

[trebor07]

is bad if have drill maize in early june ?

I would think if you are doing that then you need to grow another crop instead of maize !!

 

[holywell farmer]

I would think if you are doing that then you need to grow another crop instead of maize !!

seen some maize drilled may 31st in north wales and wasn't even a wet year and crop grew ok

 

[hedger7050]

Agirax drilled 10 days ago!

 

[holywell farmer]

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Agirax drilled 10 days ago!

who needs plastic !

 

[hedger7050]

who needs plastic !

Have used plastic the last 3 years but decided not too this year for several reasons and I don't think ground conditions would of let us plant any earlier anyway so not losing too much sleep over it.

 

[DeeGee]

Sowed maize today (May 9th) conventionally; heard of others still sowing this week under plastic. Is there anything to be gained by using plastic so late in the season?

 

[Sid]

You plant when the conditions are right surely? Same as any other crop. For maize that will be later than most other crops.
Planted peas and barley here 2 weeks ago, when the soil and weather conditions were right.

 

[holywell farmer]

Have used plastic the last 3 years but decided not too this year for several reasons and I don't think ground conditions would of let us plant any earlier anyway so not losing too much sleep over it.

see a fair bit of maize under plastic in north wales,

 

[Sid]

see a fair bit of maize under plastic in north wales,

Is that how they are reducing costs?

 

[DRC]

Still got two thirds of my acreage to plant here. It's a late season and a lot of ground is wet underneath.
Contractors started planting two weeks later than normal, so just have to work with them and be patient.

 

[holywell farmer]

Is that how they are reducing costs?

not sure what mean by that ?

 

[Wilberforce]

None planted here, ploughed ground still drying at weekend. Raining now and tomorrow looks wet. Weekend drilling at the earliest.

Bearing in mind the late ish drilling, anybody think there is some mileage in reducing seedrates from 45000 to 42500 seeds an acre? We sell the crop by weight so don't want to miss out on crop bulk.

Also being a cheapskate could I get by replacing the down the spout DAP with say urea to give the crop a kick start? Soils all Index 2 plus for P and sludge cake has been ploughed down. DAP and final seed not yet on farm, so potential for input savings or 'penny wise pound foolish'. Thoughts please?

 

[DRC]

None planted here, ploughed ground still drying at weekend. Raining now and tomorrow looks wet. Weekend drilling at the earliest.

Bearing in mind the late ish drilling, anybody think there is some mileage in reducing seedrates from 45000 to 42500 seeds an acre? We sell the crop by weight so don't want to miss out on crop bulk.

Also being a cheapskate could I get by replacing the down the spout DAP with say urea to give the crop a kick start? Soils all Index 2 plus for P and sludge cake has been ploughed down. DAP and final seed not yet on farm, so potential for input savings or 'penny wise pound foolish'. Thoughts please?

Very wet tonight Will. Contractors nipped in here on Sunday morning, and got 35 acres done , before going back to the farm they were rained off at. I've worked another 14 acres that'll need another pass. Hope it doesn't turn into a pudding . I've used 25-5-15 as a starter fert before, which would be fine with good indices, and cheaper than DAP .

 

[Wilberforce]

Very wet tonight Will. Contractors nipped in here on Sunday morning, and got 35 acres done , before going back to the farm they were rained off at. I've worked another 14 acres that'll need another pass. Hope it doesn't turn into a pudding . I've used 25-5-15 as a starter fert before, which would be fine with good indices, and cheaper than DAP .

Plenty wet enough here as well, when to get some filters from Edwards and Farmer this afternoon, a lot seems to have been drilled around Shrewsbury but round here very little seem to have been drilled.

 

[DRC]

Plenty wet enough here as well, when to get some filters from Edwards and Farmer this afternoon, a lot seems to have been drilled around Shrewsbury but round here very little seem to have been drilled.

Most of the fields immediately around me, have been drilled. Must've been four different contractors working nearby last week. But, as you know, it's boys land down here in the village, the problems start on the heavier land at the top end of the farm.