planted crop condition

[teslacoils]

In the "olden" days of 2000, 1/3 of our farm would have been in fallow, and the third from the year before drilled with Claire in early September. The other third would have been osr with the old twice over with the discs and press, combi and roll, or maybe even autocast.

 

[Wombat]

We had 3 dry weeks in October 2000 that allowed me to do all my drilling. The rest of the time it was awful. We had Avadex, Lexus, Hawk, Treflan and IPU back then.

I think that’s what’s so unusual about this year, 2000, 2012 we got a week or two here and there to drill between late sept and now. This year we haven’t had 3 continuous days without rain

 

[Hindsight]

Early drilling was all the rage, just let Atlantis sort it out all your weeds in the spring. Along with smaller lighter kit and more of it along with more boots on the ground. That would be my guess for the difference from now to then.

EDIT. Actually just looked up and Atlantis didn't come on the scene until 2003.

I was about to post saying it was Hawk +Lexus in 2000.

 

[Clive]

Early drilling was all the rage, just let Atlantis sort it out all your weeds in the spring. Along with smaller lighter kit and more of it along with more boots on the ground. That would be my guess for the difference from now to then.

EDIT. Actually just looked up and Atlantis didn't come on the scene until 2003.

I recall being encouraged by my (at the time) Agrii supply agronomist to drill wheat on August the 14th they had trials that proved it would give higher yields ................... that wasn't really all about selling loads of product was it !!!

and people wonder about my skepticism re trails and advice from people selling stuff today !! ?

 

[texelburger]

I've travelled North,North West and North Midlands to the North East and I have only seen a handful of fields that look OK. The only area where crops look well is on the light land ,adjacent to the A5 between Shrewsbury and Oswestry. There are,obviously, lots of fields that have rotted and not one looks as if it has had an aphicide. Worrying times.I have not been South,however, but my brother who travels to London,every week, and even though he is not a working farmer he says the fields drilled are less this year.

 

[Gong Farmer]

We had 3 dry weeks in October 2000 that allowed me to do all my drilling. The rest of the time it was awful. We had Avadex, Lexus, Hawk, Treflan and IPU back then.

Very true, Lexus + PDM post emergence was giving 99% black-grass control then.

 

[ajd132]

My first year of farming was 2012. I’ve never seen blackgrass die in a Wheat crop from chemical! I was with some local farmers recently and they said how easy it was to farm 10-20 years ago with new chemical to sort problems out and just bang loads of wheat in early. I used to drive quad track when I was a teenager in holidays and loved making dust, we would usually start drilling on 12th September but by the i was ready to go back to london to spend telegram harvest cash!

 

[Surgery]

Eurostar to Paris this week , tis wet there too , plenty looks as if it’s just planted after beet , didn’t look great , probably have a strike over the weather knowing them.

 

[B R C]

Those who managed to grab a few days drilling have some reasonable looking crops now, I think the best are on sloping ground. This next to one of my fields and flat is not faring so well!
My field is still stubble...

 

[richard hammond]

Those who managed to grab a few days drilling have some reasonable looking crops now, I think the best are on sloping ground. This next to one of my fields and flat is not faring so well!
My field is still stubble...
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Large areas like that in Lincs, Notts, Yorks, well nearly every where in the mid counties!!

 

[Will 1594]

Drilled this after beet 3 rd December and this on 31 st October All rest coming ok , apart from where a spring has come up in a field and caused a bit of a mess just 60 acre left for next week when lift some more beet

 

[Green oak]

Merchants seem in the main in complete denial of the situation

I do wonder whether a lot of land will even be fit for timely spring planting

Merchants know there’s a massive surplus out there. Even encouraging farmers to keep it till Nov 20. Yes looking around the country looks desperate. But I’m sure our friends will be importing as they normally do.

 

[Northernlights]

I know I write this from the north of Scotland but our early summer from mid May to end of June was almost completely sunless and very wet and as farmers we are harvesters of sunshine.Couldn"t understand the local trade talk of big yields ours were below average. Our local coop talked about large overages at the beginning of harvest but by the end they failed to materialise due to por yields and light grain.

To my east a lot of barley failed to make malting and to my north an agronomy meeting in Caithness about three weeks ago asked how harvest went and nearly all the farmers there still had fields of oats to harvest. The autumn has been just as wet here with a lot of unsown winter crops

I think too there is a lot of misinformation spread by various sources to manipulate markets.

Just to confirm the bad year we have had up here a seedsman last Thursday told me that fields of neeps (swedes) are all rotten due to fungal infections picked up from winter oilseed rape in the damp summer and made worse by the very wet autumn. Never in my lifetime have I heard of swedes rotting because of the wet as they are usually very hardy.

Another story emerging is that wrapped silage bales have not fermented well with stock refusing to eat some. On a personal note we had four two day dry periods between 20th May and mid August and we were making hay or silage on all of them. Not a vintage year.