Spring bean's....

[alomy75]

Anyone still drilling beans? Only started mine this morning!
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I'm working on the basis that half a crop at least pays the rent and should set up a good following first wheat.

I’ve had my best crops and worst crop drilled at the end of April. Drilling date largely irrelevant in my opinion; all about whatever weather the spring gives us from emergence until flowering

 

[Flat 10]

We've been drilling beans today, working on the same theory as you

When are you hoping to harvest?

 

[Spud]

When are you hoping to harvest?

Late September early October

 

[Spud]

Not sure how good aclonifen is on broad leafed weeds. It has been used extensively in potatoes for years. @Spud ?

The reclassification of beans as a major crop has buggered up many EAMUs. The same has happened to oats.

How much is Emerger?

Expensive for what it is.
We've used Emerger on spuds varieties sensitive to metribuzin since we lost Linuron. It's ok, but needs defy with it. Apparently it's better at 2.5l/ha than 1.75......

 

[Salopian_Will]

Anyone still drilling beans? Only started mine this morning!
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I'm working on the basis that half a crop at least pays the rent and should set up a good following first wheat.

Yes still got another 30ha to do. Drilled some 17th April last year and were fine. Didn’t combine them until October but that was more down to the crap weather in September than them only just being ripe.

 

[czechmate]

Spring drilled winter beans. Drilled 4 weeks ago. Cropping wise I am sure there were better options but the beans suit our “whole farm system” very well.
Anyone who knows me will be laughing at “system “

 

[czechmate]

Strangely you can’t really see the beans on that previous picture. Here is a closer one

 

[Midlands Farmer]

My spring beans went in yesterday, a bit shallow too (2-2.5”) to drill issues!
could just end up being a cover crop so I’m going to try and spend the minimal on them!!

 

[dave6470]

Drilled the last today

 

[Salopian_Will]

My spring beans went in yesterday, a bit shallow too (2-2.5”) to drill issues!
could just end up being a cover crop so I’m going to try and spend the minimal on them!!

I would say that was bob on depth wise - dont want to wait 6 weeks for them to come up.

 

[thorpe]

Late September early October

feck that!

 

[Spud]

feck that!

Some folk want to be finished before they've started

 

[thorpe]

Some folk want to be finished before they've started

yep! you can't buy time or dry day's and end sept into oct both get shorter!

 

[Spud]

yep! you can't buy time or dry day's and end sept into oct both get shorter!

Sow nowt harvest nowt make nowt

 

[Flatland guy]

yep! you can't buy time or dry day's and end sept into oct both get shorter!

On average you are right but we do get the odd good backend in 2011, 2018 in recent memory in both years the dust was still blowing on November 5th which on old person once said was when you wanted to be completed field work by. I admit the days are shorter for things like combinining at end sept/Oct but if not vast percentages of cropping can often pinch some things just not last year or 2019.

 

[Hindsight]

On average you are right but we do get the odd good backend in 2011, 2018 in recent memory in both years the dust was still blowing on November 5th which on old person once said was when you wanted to be completed field work by. I admit the days are shorter for things like combinining at end sept/Oct but if not vast percentages of cropping can often pinch some things just not last year or 2019.

Autumn rolling of wheat continued in Autumn 2021 into November.

 

[JeremyD]

I drilled 3 weeks back at 230 kg. Now they are coming up they look bloody thick

Can't have em too thick! My best crop last year yielded just over 2.25 tons acre sold I drilled them at 340kg/ha home saved.

 

[jd6420s]

I agree that it's better to have them too thick than too thin. But if you look where the drill has overlapped there will just be a bunch of stalks with 1 pod on them. Not many weeds though.

 

[czechmate]

I agree that it's better to have them too thick than too thin. But if you look where the drill has overlapped there will just be a bunch of stalks with 1 pod on them. Not many weeds though.

Overlaps at a rate towards 700kg/ha

 

[Wombat]

On average you are right but we do get the odd good backend in 2011, 2018 in recent memory in both years the dust was still blowing on November 5th which on old person once said was when you wanted to be completed field work by. I admit the days are shorter for things like combinining at end sept/Oct but if not vast percentages of cropping can often pinch some things just not last year or 2019.

2018 was about the only year in my memory we could have drilled heavy clay all the way to Christmas.
2021 was also a very nice back end as well