Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
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
nitrogen application
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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
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- Location
- north yorks
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
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Are you busy at it yet @Brisel?
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
32 units
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
40 units/ac (50 kgN/ha) on rape
70 units/ac (87.5kgN/ha) on wheat and barley.
70 units/ac (87.5kgN/ha) on wheat and barley.
1 unit = 1.25 kg/ha N. Beaten to it by @Zippy768
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.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Going for it tomorrow, lighter wind forecast.
Osr getting 250 kg/ha of ammonium sulphate. Nice to make a start on the spring workload.
Osr getting 250 kg/ha of ammonium sulphate. Nice to make a start on the spring workload.
That’s a big kick for the cereals as a first dose in February . Different world over in the east .
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.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
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.
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.
- Location
- Hereford
Just walked across one of the fields....yucky and sticky ! Won't be much field work done this morning !
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
It's an absolutely gorgeous morning here,sun shining, sky larks twittering.... perfect.
ZXR17
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- Location
- South Dorset
Try to succeed
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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
- Location
- South West
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Great view in that first pic. Where is that?
fermec860
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- Location
- Warwicshire
What model spreader are you using can see it's a kv
- Location
- South West
It’s a 2013 exacta TL. Has been a good spreader.