nitrogen application

[Headless chicken]

40 kg/ha N

Sorry I’ve not come into 2019 with fert I’m still in units. How do I convert? I’ve got it written down somewhere but not to hand

 

[4course]

Done my rape today and then started on the winter barley.
I was very surprised to see green buds visible in the centre of the plants it seems very early.

still too wet here no wind no sun this being patient is doing me no good, so could wellbe a case of fire flood shish or blood ,worked out weve got just over 600 acres to cover and thats without grass albeit some of it twice compound and N plus short days with other things to do, the load of fert we sent back is now starting to cost

 

[Zippy768]

40 kg/ha N

Are you busy at it yet @Brisel?

 

[Zippy768]

Sorry I’ve not come into 2019 with fert I’m still in units. How do I convert? I’ve got it written down somewhere but not to hand

32 units

 

[robbie]

40 units/ac (50 kgN/ha) on rape
70 units/ac (87.5kgN/ha) on wheat and barley.

 

[Brisel]

Sorry I’ve not come into 2019 with fert I’m still in units. How do I convert? I’ve got it written down somewhere but not to hand

1 unit = 1.25 kg/ha N. Beaten to it by @Zippy768

Are you busy at it yet @Brisel?

Not yet. Another day of spraying off cover crops then a clean out and onto the first 40 kg/haN liquid N dose on the osr. Insufficient aerial imagery so it will just be a flat rate this time. Back in a couple of weeks with the next dose when I've got a better idea of losses to CSFB larvae.

 

[moretimeforgolf]

Going for it tomorrow, lighter wind forecast.
Osr getting 250 kg/ha of ammonium sulphate. Nice to make a start on the spring workload.

 

[DRC]

40 units/ac (50 kgN/ha) on rape
70 units/ac (87.5kgN/ha) on wheat and barley.

That’s a big kick for the cereals as a first dose in February . Different world over in the east .

 

[An Gof]

40 units/ac (50 kgN/ha) on rape
70 units/ac (87.5kgN/ha) on wheat and barley.

Only 40 units on the rape? That seems quite low considering how fast rape grows when it takes off. I used to use 3 splits on OSR but I’m back to only two splits on the rape now so it had 88 units/ac or 110kg N/ha as the first dressing.

 

[robbie]

It is quite a low dose but I plan to go with a big dose in a fortnight or so then again with the final as late as possible but I'm contemplating changing the last dose for liquid after flowering. The "experts" tell me rape needs plenty of N later for yield, but I must admit I prefer the big dollop early strategy.

 

[Brisel]

I'm only planning on a small dose of N on the osr first time. More to do with crop viability since I have 20 - 80 CSFB larvae/plant in places. Normally I'd be doing 90 -110 kg/ha N now but decided to split it down into an extra pass this year. There won't be much biomass growth in the next 3 weeks so I doubt there will be much N taken in - it's 14th Feb today and we could still have a lot of rain to leach it away. There's no right or wrong answer here, I think. Save passes where you can & it's better to be a week early than a week late when growth really gets going.

 

[DRC]

Back to reality here this morning. It’s cold and foggy, which has soaked the ground again. Let’s not get too carried away .cant afford to waste fertiliser or end up polluting water courses.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Just walked across one of the fields....yucky and sticky ! Won't be much field work done this morning !

 

[robbie]

It's an absolutely gorgeous morning here,sun shining, sky larks twittering.... perfect.

 

[ZXR17]

Applied 60 kg N + SO3 to winter barley and started osr at same rate yesterday and today . Beautiful sunny day and forecast for the next week . Osr has fresh growth and some plants have green buds showing .

 

[Try to succeed]

I gave into temptation to put a sprinkle on the osr today after looking at long term weather forecast. Seems fairly settled for the next few weeks? Must admit they’ve been known to be wrong

 

[Hobbit]

Decided to spilt my first dose of dobletop on the OSR. Travelling very well apart from the fog this morning has made the top a little tacky.

 

[Zippy768]

Applied 60 kg N + SO3 to winter barley and started osr at same rate yesterday and today . Beautiful sunny day and forecast for the next week . Osr has fresh growth and some plants have green buds showing .

Great view in that first pic. Where is that?

 

[fermec860]

Decided to spilt my first dose of dobletop on the OSR. Travelling very well apart from the fog this morning has made the top a little tacky.

What model spreader are you using can see it's a kv

 

[Hobbit]

What model spreader are you using can see it's a kv

It’s a 2013 exacta TL. Has been a good spreader.