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<blockquote data-quote="8 Ace" data-source="post: 7780009" data-attributes="member: 44048"><p>We have taken a different approach to what seems to be the mainstream of getting rape drilled as early as possible and therefore taking advantage of a longer warm spell in the summer to get robust growth and large plants going into the winter to beat csfb and slugs. Since the neonic ban, what we recognised as the main sowing period of say 25th august to early september became the wrong time as csfb just became uncontrollable so the options were to sow either early or late to avoid the main csfb migration (or not bother at all). What stops us going for early drilling is the experience over 40 years that large osr crops going into the winter may look magnificent at this time of the year but seemed to get knocked back over winter and somehow lose their vigour and never really yielded as well as more modest crops drilled in perhaps the first day or two in september. In 2020 we drilled the osr on 16th september and the crop did get going but was small overwinter. It picked up in the spring and yielded 4.5t/ha. Late drilling relies on a variety that is deemed to have high autumn and spring vigour, (DK Extrovert in our case) and bit of nerve as the little plants struggle to get big enough to survive the winter as temperatures drop and day length shortens but the crop seems to come alive in the spring and motors on. This years crop was drilled 13th september and is just starting to get some true leaves now. There is a bit of csfb damage and we are on constant slug patrol but with a warm spell forecast in the next few days I am hoping the crop will get large and tough enough to survive the winter. Part of the package is that very few inputs go onto the crop until late in the autumn so we can make a delayed decision as to whether the crop is viable and if it is not then all we have lost really is the cost of the seed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="8 Ace, post: 7780009, member: 44048"] We have taken a different approach to what seems to be the mainstream of getting rape drilled as early as possible and therefore taking advantage of a longer warm spell in the summer to get robust growth and large plants going into the winter to beat csfb and slugs. Since the neonic ban, what we recognised as the main sowing period of say 25th august to early september became the wrong time as csfb just became uncontrollable so the options were to sow either early or late to avoid the main csfb migration (or not bother at all). What stops us going for early drilling is the experience over 40 years that large osr crops going into the winter may look magnificent at this time of the year but seemed to get knocked back over winter and somehow lose their vigour and never really yielded as well as more modest crops drilled in perhaps the first day or two in september. In 2020 we drilled the osr on 16th september and the crop did get going but was small overwinter. It picked up in the spring and yielded 4.5t/ha. Late drilling relies on a variety that is deemed to have high autumn and spring vigour, (DK Extrovert in our case) and bit of nerve as the little plants struggle to get big enough to survive the winter as temperatures drop and day length shortens but the crop seems to come alive in the spring and motors on. This years crop was drilled 13th september and is just starting to get some true leaves now. There is a bit of csfb damage and we are on constant slug patrol but with a warm spell forecast in the next few days I am hoping the crop will get large and tough enough to survive the winter. Part of the package is that very few inputs go onto the crop until late in the autumn so we can make a delayed decision as to whether the crop is viable and if it is not then all we have lost really is the cost of the seed. [/QUOTE]
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