- Location
- Lincolnshire
Soils knackered now anyway. Still, let's look forward to next year. Does it rubbish self structure.
State of your crops?
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
Didn't roll it.
Those wheelings at an angle are the toptith. Would have left that in the shed in hindsight.
Much like the seed.
All my worst wheat was drilled with rain forecast that night, smashing on to get it done etc.
Fine in theory, but when the rain turns out to be biblical, you instantly wish you hadn't bothered.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Is it worse than last year?
In my case, Yes.
Last year I had no winter cereals drilled, so had a lot of standing water to depress me, but no crops to write off!
This year, I have even more standing water, particularly on the fields that I have drilled.
So the upshot is, more water, more expense.
In my case, Yes.
Last year I had no winter cereals drilled, so had a lot of standing water to depress me, but no crops to write off!
This year, I have even more standing water, particularly on the fields that I have drilled.
So the upshot is, more water, more expense.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Barley here looks really well and still very green at the minute but my plan is to get 1cwt/AC of urea on as soon as from next weekend. Once the barley's done if conditions allow I'll do the same on the wheat but I don't consider that to be quite as critical.
Don't beat yourself up about it. I have over 100 acres of wheat that is thin and waterlogged that was sown just before that wet weekend at the beginning of October. It was correctly predicted to be a lot of rain so we pushed on and got a lot of heavier land done in case we didn't get back to it before April 2021 and I'd do the same again in the same situation. Anything sown on heavy land even 3 days earlier looks so much better & has taken the winter far better too. I never imagined that from the beginning of October we would never get back on drilling again apart from a few light sandy loam fields 2 weeks later - we didn't finish them either as we got rained off.
If you don't take risks occasionally, you just don't get anything done.
Had the first look this year at some barley yesterday
Its dry now bit not really travellable,then showers end of the week and then dry again next week apparently. Think I might make a move then.
Sensation is the variety, standing fairly tall and a bit uneven if I want to be picky.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
My November drilled wheat, plough, power Harrow, mf30 has emerged and is defiantly hanging on at one leaf. It’s a bit thin in places and might come to something but I’ve cancelled the new combine. The soil resembles float finished concrete.
As a joke I direct drilled some leftover wheat seed into 16 acres of predominanty sand sprayed off ley round the house. If that drowns then everything will. The slots do know fill for a few hours after a dose of rain but do empty again except where it low and sticky. The seed has sprouted and is alive mostly with about a 3 mm shoot on it.
Looking like 1.5 t per acre all round again on the winter wheat unless we get a particularly kind spring and early summer.
People on the Sand in Norfolk or free draining chalk shouldn’t be allowed to post on here.
As a joke I direct drilled some leftover wheat seed into 16 acres of predominanty sand sprayed off ley round the house. If that drowns then everything will. The slots do know fill for a few hours after a dose of rain but do empty again except where it low and sticky. The seed has sprouted and is alive mostly with about a 3 mm shoot on it.
Looking like 1.5 t per acre all round again on the winter wheat unless we get a particularly kind spring and early summer.
People on the Sand in Norfolk or free draining chalk shouldn’t be allowed to post on here.
- Location
- East yorks
Looks great,
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Patience, revenge is a dish which tastes best when served during a drought!People on the Sand in Norfolk or free draining chalk shouldn’t be allowed to post on here.
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- Location
- the brecks norfolk
My November drilled wheat, plough, power Harrow, mf30 has emerged and is defiantly hanging on at one leaf. It’s a bit thin in places and might come to something but I’ve cancelled the new combine. The soil resembles float finished concrete.
As a joke I direct drilled some leftover wheat seed into 16 acres of predominanty sand sprayed off ley round the house. If that drowns then everything will. The slots do know fill for a few hours after a dose of rain but do empty again except where it low and sticky. The seed has sprouted and is alive mostly with about a 3 mm shoot on it.
Looking like 1.5 t per acre all round again on the winter wheat unless we get a particularly kind spring and early summer.
People on the Sand in Norfolk or free draining chalk shouldn’t be allowed to post on here.
Say what you like I'll still take my Norfolk sand over most of the supposedly good heavy land around the country.
We may drought out but atleast we can get a good crop established in the first place, a lot I see around the country would do 4 plus tons acre but flooded,bare, waterlogged patches all winter put pay to it in lots of cases.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Can irrigate light land. Can't stop the rain on heavy.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
We have sand and clay here. More sand than clay thankfully but an annoying amount of clay in just about every field maybe 20% of the area often as you drop away to the wstercourses. It’s always a compromise managing the field as a whole. I reckon I’d be better putting those clay areas into some sort of permanent pasture/ buffer strips. Yet come a droughty time they will sometimes yield more than the rest of the field and it’s always nice quality grain compared to that off the sand.
Same here.
We've got clays and shales in an infinity of random shapes from 80%/20% to 20%/80%, average 50/50, leading to very average yields most years..
However, if an exceptionally dry autumn is followed by a damp summer they can both do well - 2019, for example.
Exceptionally wet autumn and dry summer - 2020, for example - both do badly.
Funnily enough, we had a 2:1 variation in the average yields of successive crops here once before, (1978/1979) but that time the bad one came first!
APJ
Member
- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
Sensation winter barley certainly looking well.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not a chance we will travel in two weeks.
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
5 inches of snow and very wet underneath
any one who has spread n round here will be watching it go down the river
any one who has spread n round here will be watching it go down the river