Spring crops really struggling

Iben

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fife
If spring barley doesn't grow soon, getting the knife bar under the heads is going to be a real problem.

Wheat is hardly 18" tall in areas.
 
From being 2 weeks behind with crop and grass growth stages in mid April we are now 2 weeks ahead in mid June. All plants went into survival mode when soil moisture deficits began to bite .Seed production was set and prioritised ahead of vegetative growth before lack of moisture started to kill the plants. I believe we need 5 inches of rain in this area to bring the soil up to field capacity.Pretty certain straw and grain yields will be down and if we now get a lot of rain there will be a lot of second growth and poor samples will result at harvest so maybe best if it stays dry and we get an early harvest.
 

Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
youll be forecast some the next few days?

Was forecast a hell of a lot of it over most of Scotland for today a few days ago......................... Hasn't happened.
Winter wheat now beginning to suffer too. Flag leafs now rolling on lighter patches within fields. Todays wind not helping either.
 
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spring barley struggling here!!!
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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