TheEarlOfMoray
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- Morayshire
Just thinking ahead, what variety are you all planting for next harvest? We have incentive in this year and looks very good but will know better when it's cut.
OSR Variety
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dirty harry
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- Location
- east of east midlands!
Incentive/Elgar/ django here?
But been cutting some v good campus today....?
Cheers dh
But been cutting some v good campus today....?
Cheers dh
- Location
- south norfolk
Got ellize growing this year and it looks nothing special but won't know till it's cut.got Aquila being grown for next season
Nick...
Nick...
- Location
- Worcestershire
Did your campus go flat. ( Dirty H ) Mines flat as
average farmer
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- North Notts
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Ours is flat to, grown in same field as Barbados which has stood better but not brilliant. Last time we grow campus it went flat but yielded very well.
My mixed seed looks the best now
Ours is flat to, grown in same field as Barbados which has stood better but not brilliant. Last time we grow campus it went flat but yielded very well.
My mixed seed looks the best now
Captain Mainwaring
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- Location
- E. Sussex
Barbados in the main as this will be hss, also going to try flamingo as I like the disease scores plus an area of dk imperial.
- Location
- Lincs
Picto running better than flamingo and elgar currently with 50% cut
spikeislander
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- Location
- bedfordshire
Campus has mostly stood this year but it's a fine line between standing and flat, with lush areas and overlaps going over. In it now and it seems to be doing ok ( 1.75-1.8 on combine) but going over weighbridge today so will report actual weights later.
If I was forced to make a call on osr this year (although only two fields of campus cut) the crop thickness doesn't seem to impact the yield as much as I thought with thinner bits still holding a respectable yield in relation to how they look.
Sample looks nice and pretty bold, moisture got down to 6% yesterday although stems still got a bit of life in them at base canopy has gone off well.
Got Barbados and some arctic to try so will report back.
Oops sorry for waffling
If I was forced to make a call on osr this year (although only two fields of campus cut) the crop thickness doesn't seem to impact the yield as much as I thought with thinner bits still holding a respectable yield in relation to how they look.
Sample looks nice and pretty bold, moisture got down to 6% yesterday although stems still got a bit of life in them at base canopy has gone off well.
Got Barbados and some arctic to try so will report back.
Oops sorry for waffling
- Location
- Wiltshire
Imperial cl and a Aquarel cl here. Second year of clearfield varieties. The first with what looks like a decent harvest. The imperial is quite flat on 50ac It is very tall.
Clearfield works well on the farm so I will probably stick to the same varieties next year. I'm not keen on dropping a variety after 1 or 2 years.
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Clearfield works well on the farm so I will probably stick to the same varieties next year. I'm not keen on dropping a variety after 1 or 2 years.
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Captain Mainwaring
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- E. Sussex
I've not grown it here before. It's going on some dirty ground so grown for that reason but I also like the potential for seeing an established crop before too much input spend. Less workload at that time is useful too particularly if I can get dd osr to work, it's not a success this time around.
Clearfield is a useful tool, though by the time you get to late October you're nearly at the same level of spend as non CL. For flea beetle considerations I agree that no early spending on the big £ metazachlor based mixtures like Katamaran Turbo that also hold the crop back is a big bonus.
The arrival of Astrokerb, or even just the use of Galera, has hailed the end of the wildly pricey peri-em sprays. I'll probably be adding a generic metazachlor to on of the early beetle-i-cides.
Astrokerb is good stuff but shame about the price. I still use Centium clomazone pre em as it covers the hedge mustard that Astrokerb doesn't. Cleavers are also a problem here & Galera is unusable if you follow the label to the letter - no use before 1st March yet most years the buds are above the crop by then! Clearfield herbicides do hedge mustard & cleavers (with quinmerac) but not thistles & mayweed.
I've found that my previous system of splitting a full dose of Novall (MTZ + quinmerac) then following up with Kerb later cost about the same as a Centium fb Astrokerb or Clearfield programme. The difference is the timing (too damn busy in August/early Sept to be messing around with repeated spraying) and now the reduction in max metazachlor doses must be reducing weed control.
Yes, the timing for shield / galera is tricky - I suppose trickier for you lot in the tropical south. BG necessitates a high spend. Elk fb Crawler fb generic Kerb fb Shield. Worked well. Cost plenty. Hoping that the return to less deep OSR tillage, and generally good BG control will result in the basic metazachlor fb either fancy Kerb or basic Kerb & Shield will cover everything. Having bunged the radiator up with thistledown yesterday spraying off a field with rather more thistles than it should of had, I can say mistakes were made.
