State of your crops -2022

[Oscar]

Had a chance for a walkabout in the spring crops this afternoon.
They went in well into good moist seedbed, but the rain over the last week or so has really perked them up.
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Spring Oats filling out, they got a post emergence rolling to encourage a bit of tillers, it seems to have worked.
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Lynx Spring Beans
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We tend to aim for about 50 plants/m2, I think we are about there as a field average.
We are also in a Hls/Els scheme, so margina and hedges are also a crop for us. These were bursting with life.
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I could hear at least 3 different bird songs, no idea what they were!
A very pleasant and pleasing hours walk.

Came past your place yesterday in sprayer so had a good view (!) , crops and farm look good. OSR has good potential.
I know it's not yours but WW opposite side of A 358 , Williton side of layby is not going to need many trailers !!

 

[teslacoils]

Late, thin wheat coming in to ear now.

 

[sticky]

1&2 are first Graham
3&4 are first Gleam
5&6 are second Graham.
V pleased with how they look at the moment.

 

[teslacoils]

Gleam. Second wheat, but continuous cereal.

 

[teslacoils]

Bit of spring barley. Laureate i think.

 

[teslacoils]

Fair block of gleam. First wheat in six, after ab6 fallow.

 

[Woody j]

Fair block of gleam. First wheat in six, after ab6 fallow.

Great looking field of wheat

 

[teslacoils]

Great looking field of wheat

Ty. Ive really enjoyed growing gleam for several years now, but I think I need to be looking for its replacement in a year or two.

 

[Wombat]

Ty. Ive really enjoyed growing gleam for several years now, but I think I need to be looking for its replacement in a year or two.

It does look good here, it looks much less scruffy than the Saki, I have a bit of Bairstow and some champion coming to try see if they will Replace gleam and Saki

 

[Salopian_Will]

Insitor second wheat Claydon drilled c10th November after Grafton seed failure. Only drilled the variety as that was all that was available.

It is probably not going to break any records given the sowing date but quite pleased how it looks. Rightly or wrongly going to try a bit more Insitor in the second wheat slot this year.

 

[4course]

been round the winter barleys a couple of hours ago, they all look well with above average number of ears with a healthy number of grains/ear just about full clear of disease and almost starting to ripen which means we had better get a move on with cleaning down etc as in with a chance of cutting end of july which would be a week/10 days early for us, but will probably rain for a fortnight with no sun and be flat to the floor and growing through by late august . ( been a hard day)

 

[Chris W]

Might be wrong on brome to be honest. It’s a residual .
I fear brome will be out next problem with lack of chemistry as Broadway is hit and miss. However we are one of 3 in the country who are trialling a redekop seed control unit (seed smashing thing) which I think could be very useful on stuff like brome and oats which still have the seeds in the ear come harvest.
It’s with BOFIN run by Tom Allen Steven’s of CPM fame and NIAB. There’s a webinar next week introducing the concept of anyone is interested in alternative weed control?

Any data available on what % of BG seeds set actually make it to the chopper ?

 

[SilliamWhale]

Anyone feeling we are having a distinct lack of sun on what should be the sunniest time of the year?

 

[teslacoils]

Wheats only just flowering, so will be ok. Noticing that the T1 hasn't done a wonderful job.

 

[Renaultman]

Wheats only just flowering, so will be ok. Noticing that the T1 hasn't done a wonderful job.

T1 worked really well here particularly obvious on the trial plots, to the point we have skipped T2 on all but the very most at risk and forward wheats.

 

[robbie]

T1 worked very very well here to the extent that a 20mX24m trial plot(I didn't run short, honest) is filthy with yellow rust and visible from a distance despite it getting the same T2.

 

[teslacoils]

Hmm. Maybe it's something else then.

 

[Phil P]

My cheap T1 (1.5L folpet and 0.5L teb) also worked really well, even to the extent that my T2 was actually a T2.5 and I may (may not) skip T3 depending on the weather at flowering. I have done quite a big T2 (2.5) though to cover all the bases. But overall I’m very pleased with this year’s spend on chem and the condition of all our crops, winter and spring looking like they have excellent potential up to now.

 

[teslacoils]

Yes. It's not a fungicide miss. I think it's areas where the bloomin deer have been living.

 

[robbie]

Yes. It's not a fungicide miss. I think it's areas where the bloomin deer have been living.

I have to put up with these poxy things too!!!!