Starting to get worried about the wet weather ?

[bankrupt]

Rain again last night and this morning still not started cereal drilling. Will this be the third autumn from hell in a row?

No.

You'll be all drilled up by the end of next week - perfect timing.

If only we'd been limited here to the machinery used 50 yrs ago, which we still have, some busting crops could now be planted.

 

[Cowcorn]

Congratulations upon banking on the prospect of a dry October.

Really couldn't afford to take that risk here, but we certainly should've.

With only a total of 40 acres of barley and 60 acres of wheat to drill this month no point in rushing!!! The real fun will come with the 20 acres of wheat after Maize in November
The late great chemical eddie used to say that the only good thing about Sept sown crops was that the looked good all winter , but the seldom did the business .8 acres of barley in today ploughed and combi right behind .

 

[DrWazzock]

Dont worry about it .There wont be a loss on it !!! A dry week coming and it will all be through.
Once it was ploughed and worked dry it should soak well .
Havent a seed drilled yet myself rightly or wrongly going with Teagasc advice to drill lateish to stop crops getting to winter proud and hopefully avoid bydv .
Will make a start tomorrow and if the weather holds fair a week will get a lot done ....

Ha ha. You are not the only one who reads the Teagasc advice. It’s the first thing that came up when I googled winter barley seed rates and sowing dates. Good clear straight forward advice, which is something we seem short of considering the levies we pay. I drilled a bit early but it a sticky field. Drilled a bit deep with the rain washing more soil over the grooves left the the Moore press wheels but hopefully that will keep the preem away from the roots. Coming through OK. There will be a crop but we are into a dry spell I’m wishing we’d waited. If only we had a crystal ball.

 

[DRC]

On to 2nd wheats now. Going in nicely. Just the right amount of moisture .

 

[Phil P]

Finally dried up enough to get going again, just hope it lasts

 

[EddieB]

I’ve drilled what seed I have had delivered, but still waiting on about 60% of it to arrive, oh and to finish the last 15 acres of combining! Fortunately the 14 day forecast looks quite benign.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Got sunshine here in North Essex, first time since the 26th of September.

 

[DrWazzock]

Wheat is coming through a now baking but swilled capped field. It’s the thickness of needles. Will this bad start be recoverable?
I think I’m leaving it and hoping for the best. Reasonable plant population in the sand but a bit less than optimum on swilled capped load/ clay.
My winter barley has come through well but it didn’t bake hard before emergence. Can’t believe we have gone from dust to porridge to concrete in a week.

 

[teslacoils]

It's very much crusty pudding at the moment, but we're only really seeing much weed emergence now.

Seed ready, sprayer will get big tyres tomorrow. Will bang it all in end of the week.

Except one field which I haven't cultivated yet.

 

[thorpe]

i think we have missed the worst of the weather around here, barley coming nice sown into good seedbeds and rolled. wheat sown into moist stale seedbeds nothing rolled will look at the last sown tomorrow for rolling before prem but im not really bothered it is moist underneath! has anybodyelse noticed the ground is full of life this aut wrms insects beetles dosnt matter ploughed , no plough whatever its a joy . i keep hearing our soils are knackered they want to come and have a look!

 

[teslacoils]

Really heavy stuff is ploughing lovely after this bit of rain. And it was a fair bit. The last 12mm has made a bit of crust but should be fine to drill into.

 

[DrWazzock]

I’ve a really heavy bit ploughed dry a while back which adjoins the beet. It was going to wait till spring for spring wheat with the rest of the field when the beet is lifted but very tempted to put winter wheat in it now. Would make a really nice seedbed now the rain has mellowed the ploughing and it’s dried off. But it would be another part field parcel.

 

[average farmer]

Dad worked a bit of the nicer stuff down today, going to make a start tomorrow. Would like to hold off a bit longer but I haven’t got the balls . All first wheat should be in by next weekend and we’ll see what the forecast says about drilling any second wheat .

 

[DRC]

I’ve a really heavy bit ploughed dry a while back which adjoins the beet. It was going to wait till spring for spring wheat with the rest of the field when the beet is lifted but very tempted to put winter wheat in it now. Would make a really nice seedbed now the rain has mellowed the ploughing and it’s dried off. But it would be another part field parcel.

Just put WW or SW for the lot. No one will bother .

 

[4course]

all but there , all sown so far into as good a seedbed as wished for .Looking like being finished 10 days before our target 24th oct..,That whIch has been sown a week ago is either emerged or chitting in warm moist seedbeds and now down to the last 60 Acre ish, This next few days should see us done albeit the awkward bits left and a field of new to us will take longert than planned but im off on a break tuesday so leaving it to the chaps who are in reality well able to sort the job without me interfering

 

[ajd132]

Forecast looks okay for a bit now. Will drill the 50/ha of ploughed land tomorrow then got about 190/ha of second wheat to get in.
Then some beans which Mr Triton is going to come and drill for me.

 

[idle git]

Been patient and kept out of fields till yesterday, but to be honest we're not going to get much done till the middle of this coming week,

 

[Hindsight]

Easy answer to that, I haven’t drilled any cereals yet

I’m still trying to work out why I put an Avadex applicator on the tolls

Yes, indeed. When Avadex returned to more general use in around 2013 /14 when we began to wage war on blackgrass here in the East I strongly advised attaching the Avadex applicator to the drill. The problem at the time was Gowan (manufacture) label stated apply after rolling and once soil settled. That in conjunction with concerns about affecting establishment meant most farmers and agronomists wouldn't fit the applicator to the drill. At the time I consulted Steve Moss who commented applying Avadex granules before the rolls, so the granules were 'rolled in' would be ideal and improve efficacy. But there was the risk of crop damage. I had a few farms ignore this risk and attach the applicator to the back of the Vaddy. Now some 9 years on and several thousand hectares later I cannot really recall ever seeing any crop effect. A key point from my perspective is that a herbicide is applied the day the crop is drilled as the planned residual is not always applied in such timely fashion.

 

[teslacoils]

If you're not risking a bit of crop damage, chances are your mix isn't hot enough for bg anyway ....

 

[Clive]

Forecast looks okay for a bit now. Will drill the 50/ha of ploughed land tomorrow then got about 190/ha of second wheat to get in.
Then some beans which Mr Triton is going to come and drill for me.

think you guys in the east are wetter than the west?

we drilled Monday, rained tuesday/ wednesday- sprayed thursday/ friday and have started drilling again Saturday, conditions are good

hope to get finished by mid to end of this week now