OSR - up and away?

[Flintstone]

Having not heard much from the OSR growers, do we assume they managed to get it up and away this autumn?

There’s normally a heap of photos here of cotyledons with holes in, but it’s all very quiet this year.

 

[California]

There are a couple of recent threads about it so check those (one called something like OSR Survival Strategy and another Flea Beetle 2020). Various photos on there of CSFB damage. It would seem that currently there are various OSR crops being attacked by flea beetle, ours included. It was drilled in the last week of August. Too early to say whether it will make it or not.
From what I can gather crops drilled in the first half of August or earlier seem to have generally got away quite well however.

 

[GeorgeK]

osr sowing survival strategy

ive not grown w osr for years ,but due to this last years cropping /resowings etc amhaving to put in an extra couple of fields into a break so have sown one of them in osr last monday, having just walked it can find plenty thats chitted and sending a root out helped by the moisture from the...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

Some reports here, generally seems better than last year for many

 

[R J]

 

[Brisel]

Mid August sown osr is looking good with minimal slug and beetle damage so far. What has emerged in the last 3 weeks is having more CSFB grazing issues, especially where sown into bare soil and struggling with poor seedbeds or capping.

 

[chipchap]

Simple: crops that get a good dose of rain after drilling are OK.
Dry weather after drilling is where problems arise.

 

[thorpe]

drilled our last on 4th sept sprayed thurs for csfb thurs looks ok at the moment finggers crossed not had ashower since the drill left the field!

 

[Bob lincs]

All looking good here . Top right of the pics the bare patches are trial plots drilled 10 days after the rest of the field , csfb are hammering the plots .

 

[thorpe]

fan tas tic!

 

[Northern territory]

All looking good here . Top right of the pics the bare patches are trial plots drilled 10 days after the rest of the field , csfb are hammering the plots .

Whose are the plots? Rape flying away around here most would be drilled before last week in August.

 

[Bob lincs]

Whose are the plots? Rape flying away around here most would be drilled before last week in August.

A local company doing some trials .

 

[snipe]

There are some greener lines in your osr crop, at an angle. What’s caused that?

 

[Bob lincs]

There are some greener lines in your osr crop, at an angle. What’s caused that?

Low disturbance shallow tine at an angle.

 

[redbaron]

Plants look thick down the row...what seed rate and row width? Drill type?

 

[Bob lincs]

This is a conventional variety sown at 5kg/ha , 400mm rows with a home made drill . Could have got away with 2.5 kg/ha but that’s easy to say now .