And next year's yields will benefit from every last cm of those, limestone brash, regardless of this year's outturn.
Spring crops really struggling
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
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And next year's yields will benefit from every last cm of those, limestone brash, regardless of this year's outturn.
The awns are just appearing on my Spring barley,as they usually do in Highland Show week,despite being sown a month late.It hasn't tillered very well,but was sown at 1.8cwt/acre and the tillers look even and productive.I reckon the crop looks a bit thin due to its shortness.The heads within look to have enough grain sites.The crop is as clean as a whistle for weeds and disease.
I think there's enough potential for a decent crop if we get plenty of sunshine to make the most of it.My farm likes a dry summer.I have good,deep topsoil and a kindly subsoil.Above all,I have organic matter.The difference between my crops and those of some neighbouring farms which don't is stark.
I think there's enough potential for a decent crop if we get plenty of sunshine to make the most of it.My farm likes a dry summer.I have good,deep topsoil and a kindly subsoil.Above all,I have organic matter.The difference between my crops and those of some neighbouring farms which don't is stark.
Very envious.
ollie989898
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After weeks of virtually no meaningful rainfall in parts, some maize looking very sorry for itself and in others grass growth has slowed to a crawl. Barely a day goes by without seeing a chopper gang or rake or balers on the road, all in full swing but this year has turned dry just as I suspected it might.
Heaven knows what straw will be worth.
Heaven knows what straw will be worth.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
good rain falling tonight.
FFS imagine saying that!
FFS imagine saying that!
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Heavy rain here this morning too.
The difference between my crops and those on nearby OM starved farms leads me to believe my straw is worth a lot more chopped and ploughed in,than the fiver a bale in the bout I've been bid for it for the last many years.
You jammy sod22mm overnight
Sandy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
It’s been a while since we’ve had puddles on the road thank you Highland Show!
glasshouse
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- lothians
i put the hay mower on yesterday!
bravheart
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- scottish borders
Never mind off to the "show" tomorrow, bound to peedown then, suppose it'll give us something to chat about while sheltering on a refreshment break (strictly medicinal mind!!!)
Now where did I put my brolly?
Now where did I put my brolly?
bravheart
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- scottish borders
Had a bit of rain overnight, could be a bit soft underfoot for those trying to set the show up today.
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
do you apply a lot of dung/grass in rotation to keep organic matter levels up?
Delighted with 9 mm, 22 would of been better22mm overnight
John Slejpner
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- Brick clay near Bedford
0.8mm for the month of June and wheat is starting to really show it in places.
Montana in particular seems to have forgotten to grow roots as it exploded upwards in april....was green to the floor 4 days ago, now the bottom half of the plant is fired off dead. Top half looks a picture from any distance but....
Still, very grateful for the unusually wet last week of May....and all the late drilled almost bonzai wheat is looking twice as well as i have any right to expect.
But the big biomass stuff is, or is about to be, in trouble.
Montana in particular seems to have forgotten to grow roots as it exploded upwards in april....was green to the floor 4 days ago, now the bottom half of the plant is fired off dead. Top half looks a picture from any distance but....
Still, very grateful for the unusually wet last week of May....and all the late drilled almost bonzai wheat is looking twice as well as i have any right to expect.
But the big biomass stuff is, or is about to be, in trouble.
Donkey Oaty
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
22mm overnight
15mm here. it's about 2 inches into tattie drills then it's stour!
Enough to maybe give some form of harvest, but a week of mid twenties will be interesting not fun!
Jimbo
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- Location
- The kingdom
20 mm here . I cut Hay yesterday22mm overnight