OSR Damage

JACK F

Member
Location
Essex
Where are you based. Parts of Essex badly affected. Too cold without snow cover. I have lost 90% leaf off osr with all fields looking brown except odd sheltered corner. Hard decision whether to write whole lot off or give it a chance with some fertiliser. Going to give a bit of nitrogen tomorrow and see what its like in a couple of weeks. Seen photos of fields where that cold wind killed every plant. Some others seem less affected.
 
Where are you based. Parts of Essex badly affected. Too cold without snow cover. I have lost 90% leaf off osr with all fields looking brown except odd sheltered corner. Hard decision whether to write whole lot off or give it a chance with some fertiliser. Going to give a bit of nitrogen tomorrow and see what its like in a couple of weeks. Seen photos of fields where that cold wind killed every plant. Some others seem less affected.
north east england. plants look dead to me it seems worse anywhere overlapped with sprayer
 

woodylane

Member
Location
Lancashire
Yes see picture below, 2” snow just covered growing point, anything above has been defoliated, should be ok though, fert on and sunshine will be good for it.
4B510150-529D-4D19-BCBE-63DEE243FF4A.jpeg
 

Niteforce

Member
Location
East Yorks
We’ve a split field of flamingo and acacia and it has hammered the acacia but hardly bothered the flamingo.
Neighbours same with aardvark ok but aspire hammered badly.!!
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
knobbled by frost, but got a good dose of n and s on a couple weeks ago and its re-growing at a fair rate with the warm weather. hopefully be fine. if anything the older leaves with larvae in have fallen off!
 

Northdowns Martin

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Snodland kent
Mine was thin but enough plants there and should’ve made a crop. When snow came so did the pigeons, estimated flock of 3 thousand on 30 ha seriously causing damage in a week. Have put 50kg of N on and see if recovers by end of March by then Astrokerb activity should have reduce to plant spring cereal.
 

snipe

Member
Location
west yorkshire
From a farm in Essex. Frost or csfb?
 

Attachments

  • 28A89B5B-FCDE-4E1D-BF82-637A015E7222.jpeg
    28A89B5B-FCDE-4E1D-BF82-637A015E7222.jpeg
    181.2 KB · Views: 0
  • 6C409D56-7BE4-49EC-A27D-6BBE1C0FC43A.jpeg
    6C409D56-7BE4-49EC-A27D-6BBE1C0FC43A.jpeg
    88.7 KB · Views: 0

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 65 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.1%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 6 3.2%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,287
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top