State of your crops?

I do think that land that has been continuous combineable for 40 or more years would benefit from some autumn nitrogen in wet years June to January wet especially after a high yielding crop

this year the crops following poor rape crops last year ( plenty of residual n ) look brighter green
than crops after a low nitrogen break
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Dose of mang on the winter barley 8 days ago hasn’t half green’d it up! Getting N+so3 today.
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bankrupt

Member
Location
EX17/20
These pics are upsetting.
Upsetting me too, radar.

But pictures, good or bad, are surely fundamental to the success of this forum?

Furthermore, after all our last year's sad harvest setbacks locally, you are surely now willing to cut a bit of slack for us, your impoverished peers here in Devon and Cornwall?

:D :cool: :D
 
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Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
First bit of N+so3 on the winter barley finished yesterday. (Orwell)
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Giving the wheat a bit now, although it’s not looking to bad. (Lilli)
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This part of this field flooded last year and had nothing on it, look a lot more promising this year. (Lili)
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Hopefully not upsetting anyone 😗
 
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redsloe

Member
Location
Cornwall
First bit of N+so3 on the winter barley finished yesterday. (Orwell)
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Giving the wheat a bit now, although it’s not looking to bad. (Lilli)
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This part of this field flooded last year and had nothing on it, look a lot more promising this year. (Lili)
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Hopefully not upsetting anyone 😗
Only me as I'm still waiting for my new spreader☹️
I did the barley yesterday with my old one😨
It's coming this morning apparently........🤔
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Not really growing away in the cold.
Trouble round here is, if I wait for it to warm up before getting anything on there’s a strong possibility it will be too wet to travel again and everything would be looking hungry. Everything has definitely moved a bit over the last week though, some dry sunny days have definitely helped. Best part of an extra hour of sun past few days.
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Trouble round here is, if I wait for it to warm up before getting anything on there’s a strong possibility it will be too wet to travel again and everything would be looking hungry. Everything has definitely moved a bit over the last week though, some dry sunny days have definitely helped. Best part of an extra hour of sun past few days.

Agree. Urea will do little until warm anyway.
 

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
as daft as it sounds I, even though we have some land destined for sp cropping yet to cultivate could do with a shower to wash in the N plus sulphur in ,Im beginning to think i should have gone straight N it would have melted in on the fog/mist
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
as daft as it sounds I, even though we have some land destined for sp cropping yet to cultivate could do with a shower to wash in the N plus sulphur in ,Im beginning to think i should have gone straight N it would have melted in on the fog/mist
I could see any of the AN I spread yesterday but we did get a light fog this morning.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Things at a bit of a standstill here. My winter wheat is fully emerged and now at 2 leaf but just looks generally crap. Cold and very dull with drizzle and mist. Ripped up some wheat stubbles for beet so that they dry/weather a bit. Some stickier patches too wet really but most of the field lighter and worked OK. Patching up winter wheat with spring wheat soon I hope. Another bodge year. Got 50 acres to plough for spring barley ex beet and wheat. Been sorting drains out on it. Give it a day or two and it should plough nicely now that the drains are sorted.
 

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
Things at a bit of a standstill here. My winter wheat is fully emerged and now at 2 leaf but just looks generally crap. Cold and very dull with drizzle and mist. Ripped up some wheat stubbles for beet so that they dry/weather a bit. Some stickier patches too wet really but most of the field lighter and worked OK. Patching up winter wheat with spring wheat soon I hope. Another bodge year. Got 50 acres to plough for spring barley ex beet and wheat. Been sorting drains out on it. Give it a day or two and it should plough nicely now that the drains are sorted.
After the disappointment of last year and a lapse in memory from about 35years ago and the knock on effects to this year I will never ever ever patch a crop up again ,a pointless and foolish adventure for me, as grandad said first loss is best loss
 

EddieB

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
I have been top dressing our wheat today. It’s quite forward but looking at the weather forecast for next week I thought I had better take my chance. I only put on 50 kg/ha so it shouldn’t go berserk.
 

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