OSR this year ?
- Thread starter buttercup
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ollie989898
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The better crops on this thread I wouldn't hesitate to put the foliar micronutrients on. They aren't much money and you'll likely know which ones you need on your land.
OSR just seems so hit and miss and no rhyme or reason for winning or not. I can understand better fertility helps but you don't have to go far some years to see crops which are all but disappeared some years.
OSR just seems so hit and miss and no rhyme or reason for winning or not. I can understand better fertility helps but you don't have to go far some years to see crops which are all but disappeared some years.
I've got some about same as that!
Even the best doesn't seem as robust as normal? I also lost 55 acres completely to beetle. I won't be growing it again it stresses me out too much!
I’ve not got any photos but some plants are growing in a z shape, never seen it before nor has the agronomist. It’s as if something has eaten into the stem at ground level a little and when you go to pull it out it of the ground it snaps. It seams worse in the thinner areas.
- Location
- Berkshire
I was close to giving up last year, Stem weevil, CSFB larvae and winter kill meant it was pretty depressing
This years probably the best we’ve ever grown
Total lottery
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
our 23 sown osr is now sp beans and it will be highly unlikely we will bother sowing osr this year following harvest just not worth the risk
- Location
- Darlington
I'm planning on one last go, drastically reducing average, I'm going to put a set of low disturbance legs in front of my direct drill. Leave a lot longer stubble, and leave the digestate until after drilling.
I'm tempted to buy the cheapest seed I can find, up the seed rate and block every other Coulter to drill in bands
- Location
- Sedgefield
Your worst bit looks like our best bit !!!
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Ours is reasonable on the slightly lighter soil, and almost non existent on the really heavy sh!t, and wet headlands. All looked the same in September. (drilled 20th July)
- Location
- Berkshire
OSR was on its last chance after H23 disappointments, so predictably we have a good year
Undoubtedly it will balance out next year with a failure…
APJ
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- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Looks good!
Got to ask, do you farm most of Berkshire??
- Location
- Berkshire
Far from it, we are small fry compared to our neighbours !!
- Location
- Yorkshire
Is this you putting petal fall spray on? My agronomist insists that we still don't need it because disease pressure is low and I am not sure...
- Location
- Yorkshire
Has anyone concerns about their OSR after frost last night? Or will it not really bother it? It got to 0c here.
- Location
- Darlington
A few years ago, it got down to about -4 stems drooped and went brown, I thought we'd lost the lot, but it soon recovered and yields were a good average.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Thanks very much for that.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
If youve a full crop at this stage, keep banging the inputs on.
- Location
- Shropshire
Worst OSR we've grown in a long time. Flea Beetles were very easy to find grazing until mid-November. Lost 15 - 20% at establishment and they kept nibbling from thereon. If it did get established the incessant wet has hammered it on any heavy ground - where it looked like it might kick on in Jan -Feb in many places it is single stems with little biomass.