State of your crops?

[robbie]

You need a chaff spreader. The trail of awns etc has locked up the N. You can usually see which way the combine entered and left the run.

But why did a tissue analysis show excessive levels of N in the plant????
Did the chaff make the crop go hungry all winter and has starved/stunted it or I'm wondering if it's not lack of N but an aleopathic effect from the awns???

The sample was taken only from the poor bits across the field, it doesn't look like any thing is lacking much.

 

[Breckland Boy]

Showers up until 9 am then the sun came out, then it clouded over as I was getting the sprayer ready and we've just had a heavy 15min down pour so I don't think I'll be spraying anything today again.

I did two loads of herbicide on onions this morning, but stopped pre lunch. Glad I did as we have had over 10mm now.
Just driven past my illustrious neighbour and one of their two 48m agrifacs was spraying on regardless. Smelt like a fungicide!

 

[EddieB]

I did two loads of herbicide on onions this morning, but stopped pre lunch. Glad I did as we have had over 10mm now.
Just driven past my illustrious neighbour and one of their two 48m agrifacs was spraying on regardless. Smelt like a fungicide!

We’re trying to dodge showers with the sprayer. It was quite bright just after lunch, started spraying and then a mother f@@ker of a thunderstorm arrived.

 

[Renaultman]

Got a sclerotinia plus liquid potash on the OSR

 

[Stuart J]

Update on goose grazed winter barley.

It's been goose grazed several times since its had 50 units liquid N applied.

Well.....it could come back and bite me on the ass, but I'd say that barley was fudgeed. Although I think you're in Scotland so a fair two weeks behind here. I'd expect a pretty full barley crop by now.

I’ve had spring barley like that before it should eventually bounce back but it will need heat

Update.
Starting to look slightly cheerier

Update. It is growing. Looks good from a distance but pretty thin. Prolonged cold meant manganese didn't really do much and it shows.
Yield potential...2 tonne per acre hopefully.

 

[teslacoils]

Update. It is growing. Looks good from a distance but pretty thin. Prolonged cold meant manganese didn't really do much and it shows.
Yield potential...2 tonne per acre hopefully.

That won't do two ton.

 

[Stuart J]

That won't do two ton.

I'm hoping you are just trying to justify your earlier prediction!

I have shown the worst bits. Its 22 acre and not all as bad as that!

 

[teslacoils]

I'm hoping you are just trying to justify your earlier prediction!

I have shown the worst bits. Its 22 acre and not all as bad as that!

In that case it will do two ton.

 

[Phil P]

T1 in some Valerie winter barley today managing to dodge most of the showers!

Anyone want to shoot some wabbits

I was just about to set off down the drive to last field and saw this heading over , turned round and put the sprayer in the shed just in time for it to bounce down.

 

[Nitrams]

Got a sclerotinia plus liquid potash on the OSR View attachment 960328View attachment 960329

Which liquid k product pls?

 

[Renaultman]

Which liquid k product pls?

Yara Vita, 3rd year with it. I'm on high Mg land and worry that crops will struggle to uptake enough potash when they are growing fast.

 

[Cowmansam]

T1 in some Valerie winter barley today managing to dodge most of the showers!
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Anyone want to shoot some wabbits
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I was just about to set off down the drive to last field and saw this heading over , turned round and put the sprayer in the shed just in time for it to bounce down.
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I’ll get some rabbits

 

[Scouse eater]

Even though i'm only an "eater" and not a farmer, I have a go at growing wheat and i also grow barley and oats, mainly in plant pots. I'd asked around all the garden centres but none of them sold the seeds. I managed to get some spring wheat from a local farmer and "grew a loaf" one year! I got barley and oats from a craft fair "corn dolly" and they grew! So I keep the seeds and plant a bit each year.
This is my barley and winter wheat in plant pots!
Please feel free to "take the ps"!

 

[Cowmansam]

It looks well do you grind and make your own flour then

 

[Scouse eater]

It looks well do you grind and make your own flour then

Thanks Cowmansam. The first time i grew the wheat it was in a 5' square raised bed and there were about 500 stalks when i cut it down. I tied it in bundles and dried it out. Threshed it in a pillowcase, ground it in a hand grinder then made a loaf. The sense of achievement was great and the loaf was surprisingly tasty!
The pigeons and magpies robbed the wheat along the sides and I had to fence it off and net over the top! Made me appreciate how much work is involved and how you farmers must lose a lot of your harvests to birds etc.

 

[Scouse eater]

Thanks Cowmansam. The first time i grew the wheat it was in a 5' square raised bed and there were about 500 stalks when i cut it down. I tied it in bundles and dried it out. Threshed it in a pillowcase, ground it in a hand grinder then made a loaf. The sense of achievement was great and the loaf was surprisingly tasty!
The pigeons and magpies robbed the wheat along the sides and I had to fence it off and net over the top! Made me appreciate how much work is involved and how you farmers must lose a lot of your harvests to birds etc.

We mainly eat Warburtons bread! Haha! Us "eaters" have gotta keep farmers in a job!

 

[T Hectares]

Even though i'm only an "eater" and not a farmer, I have a go at growing wheat and i also grow barley and oats, mainly in plant pots. I'd asked around all the garden centres but none of them sold the seeds. I managed to get some spring wheat from a local farmer and "grew a loaf" one year! I got barley and oats from a craft fair "corn dolly" and they grew! So I keep the seeds and plant a bit each year.
This is my barley and winter wheat in plant pots!
Please feel free to "take the ps"!

Fair play, I can see a business opportunity selling seeds to urban Wheat growers
Don’t know how that would work with BSPB royalties police though

 

[T Hectares]

We mainly eat Warburtons bread! Haha! Us "eaters" have gotta keep farmers in a job!

Warbutons is not Bread, how they f***k up quality raw materials into that glutinous mush is beyond me ( my daughter loves it though )

 

[Two Tone]

Even though i'm only an "eater" and not a farmer, I have a go at growing wheat and i also grow barley and oats, mainly in plant pots. I'd asked around all the garden centres but none of them sold the seeds. I managed to get some spring wheat from a local farmer and "grew a loaf" one year! I got barley and oats from a craft fair "corn dolly" and they grew! So I keep the seeds and plant a bit each year.
This is my barley and winter wheat in plant pots!
Please feel free to "take the ps"!

Around here, they say “Never does the month of May pass by without an ear of wheat somewhere on the farm.”
But by the 11th May? You are doing well!

 

[Scouse eater]

Fair play, I can see a business opportunity selling seeds to urban Wheat growers
Don’t know how that would work with BSPB royalties police though

Fair play, I can see a business opportunity selling seeds to urban Wheat growers
Don’t know how that would work with BSPB royalties police though

Just had to look up what BSPB was.
Bloody hell! Does that mean farmers have to BUY their seeds every year and aren't allowed to save some of what they've grown, or have I misunderstood?