Spring drilling 2017

[Flat 10]

Thought I would start this thread. Bit of a non event here so far, no wheels turned for 8 days now. How are others getting on? I know it's early yet but forecast is rubbish and in my opinion is that l will lose yield potential after 10th march with spring barley. Meanwhile other jobs are building up.....
You a way through @Lincsman ?

 

[Iben]

No seed here yet.

 

[Adeptandy]

Waiting to start once it dries up and 1 nice day needed to splash some glyphosate about

 

[spikeislander]

Miles off here. Got a barley and peas.
Wants to warm up alot yet .

 

[Wombat]

Needs to stop raining here, as its chucked it down at least once a day since Doris went thru

 

[Heathland]

Spring Barley just poking through here.
Peas next or beet!

 

[turbo]

63 m of rain in February,glad I havnt much to drill it's bloody wet here at the moment

 

[DrWazzock]

Too wet here. It's all piling up. A lot of ploughing to do, but sometimes find best left till good and dry then drill soon after before the moisture goes.

We used to plough early but found the clay slumped too much in a wet spring and the sand got powdery on top and started blowing, as well as weedy.

 

[Flat 10]

Too wet here. It's all piling up. A lot of ploughing to do, but sometimes find best left till good and dry then drill soon after before the moisture goes.

We used to plough early but found the clay slumped too much in a wet spring and the sand got powdery on top and started blowing, as well as weedy.

Your land sounds like hard work! Two opposite extremes.

 

[Flat 10]

Miles off here. Got a barley and peas.
Wants to warm up alot yet .

Surprisingly quick to germinate here......

 

[Sandy]

I still need to plough it

 

[franklin]

Not started. At this rate I dont think we will be going until April.

 

[Boysground]

Nothing done here yet. Don't normally put barley in for a couple of weeks though. More concerned with the lack of spray and fertiliser days.

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[robbie]

Nothing drilled here yet, like @Flat 10 said I always feel yields start to slip after mid March. I'm a bit annoyed with myself because i had a really good spell just after Christmas and could have got drilled up then.

On the plus side everything's had MN,K and N+S (except one wet field) and I'm halfway through putting the muck on beet land.

 

[bobk]

Not started. At this rate I dont think we will be going until April.

Ditto

 

[DRC]

Ploughing lighter land here, but not concerned about drilling anything yet.
Best yield of s barley I ever had here was drilled well into April on some heavy land that was just too wet to touch before then. Ideal date would be around mid march .
I was told by an old sage, that you should see spring barley twice in the same week. Once putting it into the seed drill and the second time germinated .

 

[Flat 10]

Nothing drilled here yet, like @Flat 10 said I always feel yields start to slip after mid March. I'm a bit annoyed with myself because i had a really good spell just after Christmas and could have got drilled up then.

On the plus side everything's had MN,K and N+S (except one wet field) and I'm halfway through putting the muck on beet land.

Only done my winter barley as above. It was quite dry at points earlier in the year but l prefer not to do any spring barley until mid February just because it can get so cold and the crows murder it. However wish I had pushed harder as from next week I'm sure to be losing yield.

 

[MrNoo]

All ploughed up here, some of the brash would go (if I had a combi!) Heavy fields ploughed last Autumn wouldn't. I'd sooner it warmed up before putting any in the ground.

 

[robbie]

Only done my winter barley as above. It was quite dry at points earlier in the year but l prefer not to do any spring barley until mid February just because it can get so cold and the crows murder it. However wish I had pushed harder as from next week I'm sure to be losing yield.

The Barley sitting at peri emergence and watching the crows have it all was worrying me too.

 

[Lincsman]

Thought I would start this thread. Bit of a non event here so far, no wheels turned for 8 days now. How are others getting on? I know it's early yet but forecast is rubbish and in my opinion is that l will lose yield potential after 10th march with spring barley. Meanwhile other jobs are building up.....
You a way through @Lincsman ?

Non to do unless some blackgrass wheat has to be roundup-ed, Still aim to drill everything in the autumn, just as late as we dare as this sea level clay does not do spring crops very well. Its been very wet here this winter and no nitrogen will be going on for at least 2 weeks, many fields have water standing in places.