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Got some similar drilled 2 days earlier than thatSown 15/9. Hope it survives the winter!
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Way to many people right it off now because it does not look like all the pictures in the shiny magazines
Got some similar drilled 2 days earlier than thatSown 15/9. Hope it survives the winter!
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I have some similar. I know its too thick and to far forward but I will take that after last year. Contract HEAR rape that has taken a bit of looking after, looks best set to do well ATMI was told OSR doesn't want to be taller than knee high this time of year. Fortunately our Chinese agronomist, Nii-Hi, is 6' 2"
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Classic waterlogging, should have subsoiled it.This has been an interesting field to watch this autumn, Chicken muck was spread here but the first pass setting up a hire spreader had nearly double the rate go on !!
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Zero waterlogging, light loam over chalk at 850 ft, nice straight rootsClassic waterlogging, should have subsoiled it.
I think my biggest mistake last year was relying on digestate and poultry manure, not all on the same fields, after a big crop. Gone back to a sniff of N in the seed bed this year which definitely seems to have helped although it has still looked hungry a couple of times to date.Zero waterlogging, light loam over chalk at 850 ft, nice straight roots
I think it’s more a very wet preceding winter leaving no residual N, an 11t/ha wheat crop then DD’d into chopped straw leads to the OSR needing more than 30kg/ha of N ( going by the DAP and straight N treated crops I have )
You know your land better than me!... but thats what ours used to look like in Jan where the subsoiler driver missed a strip for various reasons.Zero waterlogging, light loam over chalk at 850 ft, nice straight roots
I think it’s more a very wet preceding winter leaving no residual N, an 11t/ha wheat crop then DD’d into chopped straw leads to the OSR needing more than 30kg/ha of N ( going by the DAP and straight N treated crops I have )
I think it’s just hungry !!You know your land better than me!... but thats what ours used to look like in Jan where the subsoiler driver missed a strip for various reasons.
We've got some planted on the 18th, have tried to leave volunteers as long as possible as they seemed to protect the seedlings from the beetle and early pigeon attack. Not expecting too much , but isn't the yield record held by a crop that was planted half way through September ? (think it was in Kent mind!)Sown 15/9. Hope it survives the winter!
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We've got some planted on the 18th, have tried to leave volunteers as long as possible as they seemed to protect the seedlings from the beetle and early pigeon attack. Not expecting too much , but isn't the yield record held by a crop that was planted half way through September ? (think it was in Kent mind!)
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Why not? Frost kill? At least 4 true leaves needed for survival but if we get a mild winter it should be ok. I’ve kept smaller plants than that before, admittedly 300 miles further south.What he said
Hi Brisel, I see you've made a few posts about the control of sawfly larvae on your crops and had a bit of an odd request for you. I'm working with a television production company called Hooded Crow Pictures, which is currently filming a documentary series about insects. We are trying to locate sawfly larvae for filming so I was wondering if the turnip sawfly is a pest that appears annually on your farm? Many thanks and feel free to contact me at [email protected].A cheap pyrethroid will knock them down quickly. Sawfly are a regular pest on the South Coast.
Hi Brisel, I see you've made a few posts about the control of sawfly larvae on your crops and had a bit of an odd request for you. I'm working with a television production company called Hooded Crow Pictures, which is currently filming a documentary series about insects. We are trying to locate sawfly larvae for filming so I was wondering if the turnip sawfly is a pest that appears annually on your farm? Many thanks and feel free to contact me at [email protected].