- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Soil types, drainage and the fact that I direct drill, so cannot bury the muck
Spring drilling 2023
- Thread starter JCfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Are conditions not good? Moist soil to depth, steadily warming and drying quickly enough on the surface between showers. It will race away and catch up with many earlier drilled crops imo.
There are some very patchy looking SB crops locally, mauled in in poor conditions to race against the calendar.
Drilled the last of mine yesterday, but rarely have it in before late April/early May as always following grazed roots on clay soil. Yield will be determined by summer rainfall, not drilling date ime.
SB I DD’ed a fortnight ago is looking ok, but the last field had deeper poaching so needed some diesel thrown at it.
Ready to start working the ground for fodder beet now…
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Conditions are really bad. It is plastercine, end of!Are conditions not good? Moist soil to depth, steadily warming and drying quickly enough on the surface between showers. It will race away and catch up with many earlier drilled crops imo.
There are some very patchy looking SB crops locally, mauled in in poor conditions to race against the calendar.
Drilled the last of mine yesterday, but rarely have it in before late April/early May as always following grazed roots on clay soil. Yield will be determined by summer rainfall, not drilling date ime.
SB I DD’ed a fortnight ago is looking ok, but the last field had deeper poaching so needed some diesel thrown at it.
Ready to start working the ground for fodder beet now…
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Bugger. Have you thought about getting some livestock into your arable rotation?
One of the fields I have to work is called ‘Brick Field’. Admittedly that’s less than ideal for working just yet…
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Got Deer and cattle. Problem is fencing costs to do it all. But mostly that the farm does not like prolonged wet weather, especially in the Spring.Bugger. Have you thought about getting some livestock into your arable rotation?
One of the fields I have to work is called ‘Brick Field’. Admittedly that’s less than ideal for working just yet…
I’ve got 18ha of AB9 stewardship to plant and it’ll need a fortnight of dry, then it will go.
I’m up in Bedale, North Yorkshire this weekend and things look very different up here compared with home.
- Location
- East yorks
You couldn’t drill bugger all here at the moment here. It’s that cold wet and sticky. I cannot even spray the spring barley after this week as I would be stuck.Are conditions not good? Moist soil to depth, steadily warming and drying quickly enough on the surface between showers. It will race away and catch up with many earlier drilled crops imo.
There are some very patchy looking SB crops locally, mauled in in poor conditions to race against the calendar.
Drilled the last of mine yesterday, but rarely have it in before late April/early May as always following grazed roots on clay soil. Yield will be determined by summer rainfall, not drilling date ime.
SB I DD’ed a fortnight ago is looking ok, but the last field had deeper poaching so needed some diesel thrown at it.
Ready to start working the ground for fodder beet now…
- Location
- Essex
Had rain yesterday and heavy enough on Wednesday to have puddles on the fields again. It dries surprisingly quickly in between but some bits just aren't drying at all yet.
robin banks
Member
- Location
- Ireland
I have my spring barley to drill on Monday. Was ploughed a month ago. Huge rain since. Power harrowed this week. To try and dry out the top. Will be sown with a vaderstad rapid which is new to me. Should I roll after. No rain forecast for me for the week. But land wet underneath but drying out on top. Soil is clay over marl
Difficult to know what the next month will bring but gut says no.
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Were still out ....
Combi a half day behind the plough if it was w wheat i would say the going was middling but what was got in last week has emerged and is a full thick crop.
One things for sure moisture is not a limiting factor .
Have to resist the temptation to roll it though still very wet at depth even if it appears dry on top
Another 35 acres and then 25 of maize and the longest spring campaign in years will be over
Sowed barley 3 june in 86 and it was one of the better barley crops cut in the indian summer that came in Oct but mostly because it missed been flattened by hurricane charlie in august that took out the earlier sown stuff .
Combi a half day behind the plough if it was w wheat i would say the going was middling but what was got in last week has emerged and is a full thick crop.
One things for sure moisture is not a limiting factor .
Have to resist the temptation to roll it though still very wet at depth even if it appears dry on top
Another 35 acres and then 25 of maize and the longest spring campaign in years will be over
Sowed barley 3 june in 86 and it was one of the better barley crops cut in the indian summer that came in Oct but mostly because it missed been flattened by hurricane charlie in august that took out the earlier sown stuff .
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Were done .....late for barley after today !!
Good luck with itWere done .....late for barley after today !!
ours is moving well into stem extension and had fungicide today.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Ours got a bit to go.
What was your seed rate? Did you up it at all For later drilling.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
To be honest that's wholecrop. There's peas drilled in there too. Both were sown @125kg/ha 250 total.
My first impression was it was a bit thin. ive sown around 300 kg for sp barley.
- Location
- East meath/dublin
The old people used to say a week late would only add a day to harvest date and ive had all to many experiences with May barley and by and large its true enoughGood luck with it
milton-95
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
Last of the barley went in on monday, a couple acres of corn on Tuesday and got all the barley top dressed today bar what was sown on Monday,
It also cures baldness, but you have to rub your pate with the green end.Goose manure is high N, are you considering a PGR?
