There are four crops going in on your doorstep with four very different (in degrees of capability) growers this spring so we will soon find out!Was an expensive experiment for me last year, think a lot will depend on your land from what I experienced
One's on the sixteen foot, one at Chatteris - so there are at least two within a gnat's crotchet of you. The benefit of the Stamford crop to the farmer in question was that he was able to significantly knock his blackgrass on the head in the fields in question (heavy ground that was infested with the stuff) and get what turned out to be a break even crop out of the job. I think what caused the yield shortfall was the rain in August/September. Had we had a sunny harvest it would have been a different story. There was also a sizeable amount of soluble N available to the following wheat crop.
Each year seems to throw a different weather pattern at us currently. If we have a wet harvest start followed by dry that ought to be good for soya and crap for Skyfall wheat which we all know has a poor sprouting score while Trinity winter wheat with its 350+ hagberg and (7) sprouting score ought to sale through such weather.
The more variation in what we grow will weather-proof us against disaster (sorry shot off at a tangent there!)
If its the one I'm thinking of it was planted into sand and it did not rain from the moment he drilled it until the day of harvest. He had a good crop of volunteer millet though!i heard of one grower a few years ago who harvested less kg/ha than he planted
Drilling our soya today. A bit of a cold start but the field conditions are good. Going into a sandy loam following an overwinter cover crop. Will roll tomorrow and then give another sniff of glyphosate when this wind drops. May well give it a dose of Sluxx as slugs have been a real nightmare elsewhere this Spring.
Cheers. Not planning a pre-em, I read about your suspicions last year!are you planning a pre em ?
good luck, I hope you can make them work
Drilling our soya today. A bit of a cold start but the field conditions are good. Going into a sandy loam following an overwinter cover crop. Will roll tomorrow and then give another sniff of glyphosate when this wind drops. May well give it a dose of Sluxx as slugs have been a real nightmare elsewhere this Spring.