OSR crops looking shorter than normal on the Cotswolds?

[Pilatus]

As above, it may be my imagination, just wondered if anybody else has noticed that OSR shorter than usual,if so what’s the cause?

 

[farmerm]

My agronomist says it’s all short this year

 

[farmerm]

Rain, temperature or light levels?

 

[Brisel]

Flea beetle and a long wet winter that didn't suit root development. Mine is much shorter than usual too.

 

[Widgetone]

Flea beetle and a long wet winter that didn't suit root development. Mine is much shorter than usual too.

Will this weeks rain rectify matters at all?

 

[Pilatus]

Will this weeks rain rectify matters at all?

Bound to do some good , but sadly “one can’t make a silk purse out of a pigs ear”, caused by flea beetle, very wet winter and then just when OSR needed some good growing conditions to grow away we had a period of dry cold weather, on the Cotswolds. It is just does not seem to have romped away this year , not good at all.

 

[snarling bee]

Your're lucky to have OSR

 

[Brisel]

Will this weeks rain rectify matters at all?

I had 15mm 2 weeks ago, so it wasn’t exactly dry before now. I don’t think it will make a lot of difference but IMO it needs to rain every week from now until harvest to have much yield potential.

 

[An Gof]

Short here as well, won’t be much straw this year. My crop has looked good and escaped CSFB but has ended up looking like a crop of Spring Rape. Will probably yield like that as well ?

 

[Pilatus]

Your're lucky to have OSR

Off topic
I confess I am only a nosy old hedge farmer now, but I cant help noticing how crops are looking,and what subjects are trending on TFF. That is also the reason I ask so many, perhaps frivolous farming related questions/threads.
That said I guess many farmers will be greatly reducing( not planting) the acreage of WOSR they plant this Autumn , from what I see and read on here TFF it is a nightmare crop to grow profitably any more. The on going problem seems to be finding a replacement for it .

 

[fieldfarmer]

Off topic
I confess I am only a nosy old hedge farmer now, but I cant help noticing how crops are looking,and what subjects are trending on TFF. That is also the reason I ask so many, perhaps frivolous farming related questions/threads.
That said I guess many farmers will be greatly reducing( not planting) the acreage of WOSR they plant this Autumn , from what I see and read on here TFF it is a nightmare crop to grow profitably any more. The on going problem seems to be finding a replacement for it .

I've still got OSR here and yep its short, I have tried 60 acres of linseed this spring which is just coming through and looking really smart in this rain, anyone got a recommendation or contact, for a buyer of linseed? cheers. Edit, SW of Exeter.

 

[Brisel]

Premium Crops, Robin Appel, United Oilseeds. I don't know how much the bigger players buy like Frontier, Openfield, Cefetra, ADM etc

 

[fieldfarmer]

Premium Crops, Robin Appel, United Oilseeds. I don't know how much the bigger players buy like Frontier, Openfield, Cefetra, ADM etc

Thank you @Brisel.

 

[Two Tone]

This is why:

This is one of the fields I didn’t pull up and replant with a Spring Crop.

That is it for me growing Rape from now on.
This situation has defo been getting worse over the last 2 years.
I won’t risk trying to grow Rape anymore until somebody can come up with something that will deal with CSFB!

 

[Brisel]

Premium Crops, Robin Appel, United Oilseeds. I don't know how much the bigger players buy like Frontier, Openfield, Cefetra, ADM etc

I should add that Cefetra bought Premium Crops a couple of years ago, so they will probably pass you straight to them.

 

[Pilatus]

So irrespective of how WOSR was established (zero till, direct drill,strip drill, BioDrill ((broadcaster on topdown or equivalent)), traditional by ploughing then combi drilling etc, Shakerator with seeding unit on it to deposit seed behind the legs) ,your WOSR is shorter than you have ever known.

 

[Brisel]

Yes.

 

[DrWazzock]

Everything here is shorter than I have ever known. Wet winter, dry spring, frosts nearly every night. Perfect storm. This is the worst year we have had here in living memory. Locals reckon 1947 was last time crops were this bad, but that was for different reasons. Spring barley straw was so short the binder couldn't tie the sheaves in September.

 

[Pilatus]

Many Thanks for your posts .

 

[Two Tone]

Everything here is shorter than I have ever known. Wet winter, dry spring, frosts nearly every night. Perfect storm. This is the worst year we have had here in living memory. Locals reckon 1947 was last time crops were this bad, but that was for different reasons. Spring barley straw was so short the binder couldn't tie the sheaves in September.

I haven’t used any PGR on any wheat this year. It did all get Pacifica plus which does stunt the wheat (whilst having virtually no effect whatsoever on the Blackgrass!!).
All my hybrid Winter barley got a T1 of CCC and on the 2 best fields we added a bit of Modus. Those same fields got a bit of terpal, Elatus era + Bravo at Flag leaf. The rest we waited for paintbrush for a proper T2 and gave it Elatus Era + Bravo but no Terpal. No point in putting it on when it‘s not tall enough to need it.
That’s it, gate shut till harvest now. But I still reckon it’ll all yield reasonably well.

The wheat though is still too short for my liking.

We do quite a bit of trails testing for various Companies including BASF. They did some trials on PGR’s In wheat 4 years ago and were somewhat annoyed that the control bit with no PGR whatsoever, yielded the best!


However, the reason why OSR is so short this year is undoubtedly down to CSFB larvae in the stems.