Slugs are nearly solely down to brassicas in the rotation whether it be osr or cover crop mustard
State of your crops?
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I didn't think I had made mine too fine. But nearly 6" in 6 weeks at the lowest point of evapo-transpirstion has fairly pummelled it.
Things look average here to be honest. Oct drilled wheat doesn’t look exciting even after it’s first nitrogen 2 weeks ago. Grass looks ok for silage but not exceptional. Spring crops are all in to good conditions so to early to tell but just an average year me thinks it’ll be.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Grass here looks ace. Or rather second year grass does. New grass looks good but the soil is mashed potato so no fert on yet and annoying levels of weed. Wheat really not got growing yet. Digestate on the lot next week. Bit of sun needed.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Profit-wise or yiled-wise?
Both.
- Location
- Darlington
It was a bloody long time ago
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Heavy land ploughed dry last September has slumped badly. There are a few drying high lumpy bits on it but they look like lumps of rubble tossed into wet concrete. We should have ploughed later but it wouldn’t work plough later. Autumn ploughing doesn’t really work any more with seriously wet winters. Late winter ploughing can work if it’s dry enough to do it and it gets enough weathering and doesn’t dry out. Not sure ploughing is a reliable system any more. Anyway I have all three systems on the go at the moment, plough, min till and zero till. Zero till is the least stressful. At least you don’t feel like you are burning fuel making things worse and there actually reasonable tilth on the heavy ground. Pretty solid underneath but so is the ploughing. Patience needed, and a roller after drilling.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I don’t really like autumn drilling. Big chemical spend, can’t cleanup volunteers or get a decent weed chit, trash hasn’t broken down, slugs, bydv, over winter slumping but biggest return if it goes right, but it hasn’t for last two year due to excessive winter rainfall.
Ideally I’d shuffle the stubble (min till/subsoil) straight behind the combine to get a really good chit without burying seed too deep and leave it to “direct drill” in the spring, spraying off about january so the regrowth isn’t too rank. I did some of that last year and it worked very well even on heavy land. But can’t think of any other crop it works for other than spring cereals.
Ideally I’d shuffle the stubble (min till/subsoil) straight behind the combine to get a really good chit without burying seed too deep and leave it to “direct drill” in the spring, spraying off about january so the regrowth isn’t too rank. I did some of that last year and it worked very well even on heavy land. But can’t think of any other crop it works for other than spring cereals.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Our November ploughed land has water visible between the furrows in places.
Whatever happened to continuous SB as a slick and simple arable system?
Biggest disadvantage was always its rather too large inter-year variability, results from autumn drilling being so much more reliable.
Not any more, it seems.
shakerator
Member
- Location
- LINCS
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
It was a nice afternoon. So after chasing some escaped Deer I braved going to look at my worst heavy land wheat, GD drilled 6 days before Storm Alex which arrived the 1st week in October.
Not good, but one hell of a lot better than I thought they would be and apart form a few headlands and patches, worth saving.
The trail plots proved that much of the damage was done by the pre-em stack.
The 52kgsN put on during the frost have made a hell of a difference!
Not good, but one hell of a lot better than I thought they would be and apart form a few headlands and patches, worth saving.
The trail plots proved that much of the damage was done by the pre-em stack.
The 52kgsN put on during the frost have made a hell of a difference!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Dried out enough to have a look around anyway
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Mice damage on the perimeter
Notice how they are targeting the seeds in the pod - they go straight to them
hopefully this rain has filled a lot of their burrows & with the cooler nights, we might loose a few mice due to exposure & cold shock
Notice how they are targeting the seeds in the pod - they go straight to them
hopefully this rain has filled a lot of their burrows & with the cooler nights, we might loose a few mice due to exposure & cold shock
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
We could do with a compilation, Dr W's Top Similes. The one I'll always remember was at the start of covid when there were huge queues at the supermarkets. He described waiting in line as being 'Like the zombie apocalypse, but with shopping trolleys.'
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Graham. Did half a field with a fancy dressing, the other spd. Can't see a difference. Just had a little shower. About to get a smelly shower of digestate. Think it's just about getting going. I'd have liked to have rolled it but just can't get the timing right.
