Optimum to sow rape

[farenheit]

A few plants with shot holes already. Sown 12/8/21

Second one is slug damage wouldn't you say?

 

[Chae1]

I've a fair heap of damage in one field too.

 

[Brisel]

Second one is slug damage wouldn't you say?

Could well be, but flea beetle damage too. Look at the munching on the left cotyledon that isn’t all the way through the leaf.

 

[4course]

.all osr sown , tue ploughed and worked traditionally ,wed 1/2 next field traditional thur other 1/2 a compromise scratch ,time will tell though despite my misgivings all gone in to good tilth and just been round and after the rain all are chitting but will have to go some to beat this years yields ,fert on next couple of days . cant find flea beetle holes behind combine but there certainly was some in the seed as harvested

 

[APJ]

Campus rape up and away. Sown 5/8/21

 

[Renaultman]

going to start next week but going to blank off every other coulter so row spacings will be 13 inches to help branching out. anyone tried that ?

I used to. Slight change of policy now, gone conventional variety and full rate, going to accept a yield penalty for better weed control, hopefully.

 

[4course]

that we put in last monday /tuesday is emerging rain and warm soil is helping ,now on slug and beetle watch

 

[Renaultman]

that we put in last monday /tuesday is emerging rain and warm soil is helping ,now on slug and beetle watch

I have some beetle damage but hopefully below the threshold to spray, it's fairly romping away, been in a fortnight today

 

[4course]

I have some beetle damage but hopefully below the threshold to spray, it's fairly romping away, been in a fortnight today

hoping we can manage without insecticide, but will go with a low rate phos mang foliar feed as soon as a green covering puts the blighters off and helps growth

 

[Renaultman]

hoping we can manage without insecticide, but will go with a low rate phos mang foliar feed as soon as a green covering puts the blighters off and helps growth

I like your thinking, had seed bed fym and gypsum, slugs really don't like gypsum, then Liquid N + So3 in the seedbed.

 

[teslacoils]

Drilled, pressed and rolled ahead of the forecast deluge....

....got 2mm. Pelleted today. Now just cross fingers.

 

[Flat 10]

A few plants with shot holes already. Sown 12/8/21

Will you be trying the 5lt/ha Mn you mentioned elsewhere?

 

[Brisel]

Will you be trying the 5lt/ha Mn you mentioned elsewhere?

Yep. Better order an IBC first. We’ll use it in the spring if not.

 

[Renaultman]

Yep. Better order an IBC first. We’ll use it in the spring if not.

When would you apply it?

 

[Brisel]

After dark when the beetle are active in the crop. I’ve no idea if it works or not. I did mix it with Hallmark and the crop still got hammered by larvae in the stems.

 

[Renaultman]

After dark when the beetle are active in the crop. I’ve no idea if it works or not. I did mix it with Hallmark and the crop still got hammered by larvae in the stems.

Why do you think the campus did so well? Just shear plant numbers? I was happy with mine. Possibly not quite as good as the Extar but a poorer field and later flowering which on a year like last was a bonus.

 

[nick...]

22 days growing now
nick…

 

[DrWazzock]

Ours has stalled at cotyledon due to dry weather. Best time to sow …. before a decent rain. If only forecasts were accurate.

 

[teslacoils]

Ours has stalled at cotyledon due to dry weather. Best time to sow …. before a decent rain. If only forecasts were accurate.

Indeed. Not going to grow until we get a rain, and that's not liking likely.

 

[4course]

combine not turneda wheel for9-10 days, osr sown last monday to thursday emerging ,cant have everything,mindst weve today turned some straw for the second time