spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
to late now?....or how much time left?
spring bean sowing
- Thread starter spin cycle
- Start date
Plenty of time. The best crop we ever grew was drilled mid April after stubble turnips . Up and away and no stopping them
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Mine are going in next week. Certainly not worried about them being too late.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Another month.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
In North Suffolk in 1986, I drilled all my Spring Beans a few days after the Chernobyl nuclear power station blew up, which was 26th April.
We were advised to stay indoors to avoid the radio-active cloud over the UK a few days later. We were desperate to drill the crops, so just carried on. This must have been the very end of April/early May. The weather itself was lovely and sunny, by then, but there were still a few wet hole patches to avoid.
Harvested one of the best Spring Beans crops I have ever grown, in Early October.
Maybe that radiation helped?
Unlikely to happen again.
..............................oh, wait a minute!!
We were advised to stay indoors to avoid the radio-active cloud over the UK a few days later. We were desperate to drill the crops, so just carried on. This must have been the very end of April/early May. The weather itself was lovely and sunny, by then, but there were still a few wet hole patches to avoid.
Harvested one of the best Spring Beans crops I have ever grown, in Early October.
Maybe that radiation helped?
Unlikely to happen again.
..............................oh, wait a minute!!
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- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Further to the above, when we came to harvest that crop in early October, we had finished all the other winter drilling. So we had every engine'd farm vehicle we owned in a 62 acre and on 40 acre field at the same time:
205 hp New Holland 8080H Combine
136 hp Bedford KM lorry with a Cole Drill-filler acting as a Chaser for the
250 hp Leyland Road train artic ferrying the beans back to the main farm 12 miles away.
215 hp John Deere 8430 tractor ploughing with an 8 furrow semi mounted Dowdeswell
96 hp International power harrowing ahead of the drill, being a
80 hp MF690 pulling a 4 metre Carrier drill, drilling Avalon seed wheat. Finally a
70 hp MF675 pulling a set of Cambridge rolls. Plus the
65 hp Manitou MB25P forklift loading the drill with 50kg bags of C1 seed on a pallet. That is
1,117 hp in total in one field at the same time on the same day. Add in the
60 hp farm Land-rover and the petrol engine driving the Cole drill-filler/chaser bin, being
5 hp, Now totalling
1,182 hp !
Both fields Harvested and growing the next crop on the same day, in 2 days total.
I don't know how we did it.
.................... must have been that Radiation cloud!
- Location
- N.Lincs
All running on red diesel at about 70p/gallon (16p/litre) ......
........now there's something that's unlikely to happen again
In some farms these days that might only be to machines for that hp figure.All running on red diesel at about 70p/gallon (16p/litre) ......
........now there's something that's unlikely to happen again
Thsts more like the tax on diesel nowadays than the full price
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Probably right.
Nowadays, Spring Beans would get all sort of sprays, and probably yield less too.
That crop only had a proper pre-emergence herbicide for Peas and Beans like Oppoguard and some Aphox (Pirimicarb) insecticide once round the headlands.
SilliamWhale
Member
Eh? Too early for me!
- Location
- Stratford on Avon
Drilled mine yesterday, unlikely to go in any better with out spending a fortune on diesel pulling it up to let it dry out
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
If a warm and moist spring then wait for soil temp to increase before drilling and they will fly... if it will be a cold and dry or hot and dry spring then wait, about 12 months and reassess...
- Location
- East yorks
If 2022 is drier than 2021 which was way drier than 2020 then a lot of people are in the crap
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Unlikely as unlike those years I am not drilling any this timeIf 2022 is drier than 2021 which was way drier than 2020 then a lot of people are in the crap
- Location
- S E Glos
Main issue is dry soils since they are so drought-prone, but little sign of that happening yet even on the lighter soils.
Of course, later sowing means later harvest so allow for that.
Of course, later sowing means later harvest so allow for that.
ollie989898
Member
Heck, there aren't any fields around here that look like that right now!!!
Done a trial, some Glypho'd pre Christmas, rest to be done post drilling.
Plan is to not to apply anymore glypho on the pre Christmas area's and see what happens
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
2012 planted in mid March one of the worst crops I have grown cultivated
2013 planted 14 to18 April one of the best notill
wet heavy land need patience drought is the least of my concerns
2013 planted 14 to18 April one of the best notill
wet heavy land need patience drought is the least of my concerns