Louis Mc
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- Meath, Ireland
Still extremely acceptable at around £31/acre all in
Sorry if I missed it in a previous post. Does this include the £4.06 BSPB royalty?
http://www.bspb.co.uk/farmsavedseed/combinable-crops-payment-rates-and-eligible-varieties.php
Where’s is cost to date Lee ?
Looks a lot better than 95% of the 'properly' grown OSR around here, there is some really poor looking stuff about.Not brilliant but also not to bad for a crop that’s been treated as a cover crop.
£50 ! I thought mine was cheap all done util harvest now at £115/ac but £65/ac of that alone was on the N fertilisers
Smashing looking crop and congratulations on your spend profile, it's very impressive from this side of the computer screen! Could I ask was it disc or tine DD established?Here mine yesterday looking pretty in the sunshine - gate shut until harvest and no more spent than above, notill, no bought seed, no sed treatment, no insecticide, no fungicide. Just FSS, herbicide and N.
Its pretty consistent as well, no bad headlands or thin patches from slugs or pigeon to drag our average yield down which is so often the case with OSR crops ! NEVER again will I drill OSR at some stupid low seed rate !! just too risky IMO
the average VC costs is a bit lower overall as one block has had a lot less bought in N using pig slurry and digest instead - overall average spend is £210/ha
On track for a decent margin but still a lot that can go wrong between now and harvest I guess !
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Smashing looking crop and congratulations on your spend profile, it's very impressive from this side of the computer screen! Could I ask was it disc or tine DD established?
will you not be tempted with a fungicide at petal fall @Clive just as an insurance if anything ?
It does seem a more sustainable way of doing it. Ok you may not get very top yields but you will always have a crop.
@Clive are you leaving the joys of clearfield then? And presumably your seed field will be sown at the lower rate?
I cannot get OSR disc drilled into barley to grow satisfactorily. I think Wheat has less stubble toxins - maybe this is an explanation as to why barley is generally seen as a better competitor?