State of your crops 2023

[Bigjon44]

Yes. Lots of wind damage. Pods going soft and drying out on broken plants. Shame after looking so good

Yes were looking full of potential, not so sure now.

 

[Andy12345]

Anyone else's beans gone horizontal in the wind and rain?

Bending over now ! get a side knife is the only advice I can give to save serious angst !

 

[fingermouse]

Anyone else's beans gone horizontal in the wind and rain?

Yes some of ours have where a cracking crop as well , they’re on some kind ground broadcast and ploughed down , ploughman made a decent job nice enough finish really , turns out it would be the year I didn’t knock the furrow tops off
Can see a painful experience coming up

 

[Wombat]

Glad we put a rather robust t3 on

 

[Just because]

Spring crops look good so far trace element top up on fodder beet only planted 18th may

 

[Dbs32]

Spraying some more OSR off this morning between the rains. Hope this weekend wind doesn't knock it about to hard!

 

[teslacoils]

Spring barley and wheat getting liquid sun.

 

[Steevo]

Spring barley and wheat getting liquid sun.

I'm surprised that wheat will take in any glyphosate.

Was looking at a slightly weedy field yesterday thinking do I spray or not and decided against it as I'd rather have the combine in as soon as the weather improves and didn't think that 7-10 days was enough to make a difference. Am I incorrect in my thinking?

 

[Spencer]

I'm surprised that wheat will take in any glyphosate.

Was looking at a slightly weedy field yesterday thinking do I spray or not and decided against it as I'd rather have the combine in as soon as the weather improves and didn't think that 7-10 days was enough to make a difference. Am I incorrect in my thinking?

From experience Glyphosate always improves combine capacity and gives a cleaner sample, even after 10 days. That's if your wanting to dry down any remaining green in the cereal. 10 days on some large BLWs wont do much use..

 

[teslacoils]

I'm surprised that wheat will take in any glyphosate.

Was looking at a slightly weedy field yesterday thinking do I spray or not and decided against it as I'd rather have the combine in as soon as the weather improves and didn't think that 7-10 days was enough to make a difference. Am I incorrect in my thinking?

Archaeology test dig greens. Will cut in 3 week..

 

[teslacoils]

There are two dig pits like this, per hectare, over the whole farm. Plus digger tracks causing secondary tillers etc. It's certainly worth doing. But yeah, this crop won't be cut for three weeks really.

Contractor also has happier face if it's crispy, as does baler man.

 

[Steevo]

From experience Glyphosate always improves combine capacity and gives a cleaner sample, even after 10 days. That's if your wanting to dry down any remaining green in the cereal. 10 days on some large BLWs wont do much use..

Thank you.

Mainly late/still tillering grassweeds but with a bit of sun they wouldn't be an issue anyway. Odd bit of fat hen/redshank....which if we had a wet spell could get worse.

Planning to cut it asap once when the weather plays ball - if it was a warm/dry harvest it would flow through the combine nicely as it is.

 

[Wombat]

Thank you.

Mainly late/still tillering grassweeds but with a bit of sun they wouldn't be an issue anyway. Odd bit of fat hen/redshank....which if we had a wet spell could get worse.

Planning to cut it asap once when the weather plays ball - if it was a warm/dry harvest it would flow through the combine nicely as it is.

What is this sun you speak of?

 

[teslacoils]

What is this sun you speak of?

Yup, proper grey cack. They say it's going to get better from 11th August ..which to be fair will mean 15th before soil is right. That's a nice fourteen days in my book.

 

[Wombat]

Yup, proper grey cack. They say it's going to get better from 11th August ..which to be fair will mean 15th before soil is right. That's a nice fourteen days in my book.

To mid July wasn’t bad but since then it’s just been a grey, wet heap of crap. 18mm in the last 30hrs and we were forecast 5mm

 

[fudge]

There are two dig pits like this, per hectare, over the whole farm. Plus digger tracks causing secondary tillers etc. It's certainly worth doing. But yeah, this crop won't be cut for three weeks really.

Contractor also has happier face if it's crispy, as does baler man.

Crikey 2 pits per ha! Do you mind me asking what they are looking for? I don’t want to start a gold rush……

 

[teslacoils]

Crikey 2 pits per ha! Do you mind me asking what they are looking for? I don’t want to start a gold rush……

They are just doing site investigation. The farm was "geophysed" last year, and these are partly targeted for things that discovered and partly random to satisfy the local authority. So far they have mainly found drains. Few random pottery; an old farmstead next to one of our existing farmstead; and an iron age pot.

It's for a large solar project the details of which are in the public domain, as will the final results of the trenching. Mostly they fill little white buckets and these get sent off for proper analysis.

So far, nothing to make me consider opening a visitor centre..

 

[sticky]

Gleam second wheat, there are patches down in all the 90 acres despite having a very robust pgr program.

 

[Old apprentice]

Higher potash applications help to strengthen the straw something to do with the cell wall for another time.

 

[tullah]

From experience Glyphosate always improves combine capacity and gives a cleaner sample, even after 10 days. That's if your wanting to dry down any remaining green in the cereal. 10 days on some large BLWs wont do much use..

Sprayed roundup on laid wheat with volunteer spuds ten days ago.