OSR this year ?

[DrWazzock]

The little blighters can be found in the leaf rib but not at the growing point …. yet.

 

[Heathland]

That's it,wrote the last 20% off today.

 

[Hindsight]

That's it,wrote the last 20% off today.

What you doing instead? Replacing the rape in those fields.

 

[Heathland]

What you doing instead? Replacing the rape in those fields.

The couple on the heath will go in with beans,(virgin bean ground so should do OK)I've got the seed,plus I've still got them to drill which were already planned before the deluge started.
I could have been drilling them this week(heath)but next weeks forecast has put me off.
The rest,they'll go in with spring barley,to be fair I've got a couple of bad rings of bg down Brickyard lane,so not such a bad thing to go in with a late drilled barley.
Something good has gotta come out of this fest year.

 

[snarling bee]

Variety, seed rate, plant population, what autumn treatments. I ask as those plants look to be nice and compact - not elongated. Early drilled crops here (not quite so early but sown first two weeks August) are much taller / elongated with the growing point some 20 - 30 cm off the soil surface, which is worrying as last year the severe frosts killed many of the plants and severely thinned crops. Cheers.

HS Campus 5kg/ha in 600mm rows July 20th into chopped W. Barley straw with Cousins Oil Drill (micro subsoiler feet)
15kg N in row at drilling, 15kg broadcast a week or so later.
2 doses Sluxx
C max late August
Astrokerb early Dec.

In patches was much bigger in Oct/Nov, but looked awful with yellow leaves, those have all fallen off now.

 

[Andy12345]

Walked some a few days ago to see if it will travel with the sprayer (it will) should get its Astrokerb this weekend .

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Too wet to even walk ours never mind get the sprayer out

 

[Hindsight]

The couple on the heath will go in with beans,(virgin bean ground so should do OK)I've got the seed,plus I've still got them to drill which were already planned before the deluge started.
I could have been drilling them this week(heath)but next weeks forecast has put me off.
The rest,they'll go in with spring barley,to be fair I've got a couple of bad rings of bg down Brickyard lane,so not such a bad thing to go in with a late drilled barley.
Something good has gotta come out of this fest year.

Thanks. Yes probably for the best. Bit ahead of myself but have you any thoughts for this next Autumn?

 

[Heathland]

Thanks. Yes probably for the best. Bit ahead of myself but have you any thoughts for this next Autumn?

I'll keep doing the euro lottery and I hope I win then it'll not matter .
Joking aside,l'm really losing the will with OSR,I'll make my mind up nearer the time depending the weather/conditions.

 

[DrWazzock]

It’s truly knackered now. Deer have finished the job. Trottles and footprints all over it. Snipped off to the ground. Always after I’ve put the herbicide on. Can I redrill with home saved spring barley if I plough and wait till March? Anything would look better than what’s left. Label says allow 4 months for Belkar. Not sure about Astrokerb. Leaving one hectare for seed.

 

[Chae1]

Ollyblogs said he'd 65 acres OSR viable out of 200 acres.

 

[Flat 10]

Ollyblogs said he'd 65 acres OSR viable out of 200 acres.

At least he isn’t trying to make a living from it anymore

 

[APJ]

Dolphin sown with the sabre straight in behind the muck spreaders early august Still looks good, despite been flooded many times this winter.

 

[APJ]

pioneer trail plot looking ok bit behind the dolphin but still happy.

 

[Hindsight]

View attachment 1161105pioneer trail plot looking ok bit behind the dolphin but still happy.

Is there such a thing a Rape envy???

 

[Heathland]

It’s truly knackered now. Deer have finished the job. Trottles and footprints all over it. Snipped off to the ground. Always after I’ve put the herbicide on. Can I redrill with home saved spring barley if I plough and wait till March? Anything would look better than what’s left. Label says allow 4 months for Belkar. Not sure about Astrokerb. Leaving one hectare for seed.

Mine is going in with spring barley,I've treated a couple of fields with Astrokerb,In the vain hope they would make it,but they were treated back in mid November.
It was on my own risk drilling it last year,I've done it a couple of times now and got away with it but then growing OSR is more risky now I think.
There is a couple of very sick OSR fields(and there isn't many)around me and they have gone off in the last few days.
The other joy of growing a crop till now, it keelsover and dies now.

 

[Hindsight]

Mine is going in with spring barley,I've treat a couple of fields with Astrokerb,In the vain hope they would make it,but they were treat back in mid November.
It was on my own risk drilling it last year,I've done it a couple of times now and got away with it but then growing OSR is more risky now I think.
There is a couple of very sick OSR fields(and there isn't many)around me and they have gone off in the last few days.
The other joy of growing a crop till now, it keelsover and dies now.

This about 20 miles from you. Areas dieing off due to foot rot, consequences of waterlogged.

 

[APJ]

Is there such a thing a Rape envy???

Trust me I’ve had my share of crap with rape lost 70 percent of my rape area last yr, I find sowing 1st week of august following muck is the key, first yr back with a hybrid which seems to be suited to early sowing low seed rate more room for bushy plants. Who knows tho it’s all a gamble. I’m lucky this yr so far.

 

[lloyd]

Trust me I’ve had my share of crap with rape lost 70 percent of my rape area last yr, I find sowing 1st week of august following muck is the key, first yr back with a hybrid which seems to be suited to early sowing low seed rate more room for bushy plants. Who knows tho it’s all a gamble. I’m lucky this yr so far.

That is the trouble it has become an unreliable crop.

 

[richard hammond]

Trust me I’ve had my share of crap with rape lost 70 percent of my rape area last yr, I find sowing 1st week of august following muck is the key, first yr back with a hybrid which seems to be suited to early sowing low seed rate more room for bushy plants. Who knows tho it’s all a gamble. I’m lucky this yr so far.

I agree lucky, until next year when your correct system does not work, lets live in hope !!