State of your crops?

[teslacoils]

Well, I've got the gear hitched on to fetch up the osr land if we don't get a good rain on Thursday. The sprayed off, rock solid grass can go in with beans.

 

[EddieB]

Date of drilling please.

The pictured field 11/08. The poorest field 18/08, no apparent flea beatle damage, just not growing. I drilled the last six days ago so only just emerging.

 

[Chae1]

Min tilled osr got a good start. First attempt at growing it.

 

[cotswold farmer 1977]

Nikita drilled 3/8 at 45 seeds plus berseem and buckwheat

 

[cotswold farmer 1977]

Sorry photos didn’t attach

 

[thorpe]

Min tilled osr got a good start. First attempt at growing it.
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virgin rape land , id wish you good luck but you wont need it.

 

[Chae1]

virgin rape land , id wish you good luck but you wont need it.

Here's hoping.

 

[teslacoils]

Two days, under 1mm.

 

[EddieB]

Inspected a 16 ha field of OSR today, can categorically say that it’s failed. It had a massive storm on it literally as I finished drilling it, not sure if that’s the cause. Next door field drilled a week before is flying away.

 

[teslacoils]

D day for the osr is Friday. Some more had better have grown after the rain. And no slugs eating the non crap bit.

 

[willy]

Osr is looking good 160 ha possibly 10has a bit iffy but the rest really pleasing

 

[Terrier]

Very mixed bag wheat as far as I have been told. Disappointed(though not surprised) with last week sept Firefly. Thin, 40% of grains I would estimate, septoria came in post flag spray. Cougar gene failure. 8.5t/ha so 15-20% down on that land. Crops sown few days later on higher land look better. Early sown 22/9 Saki looks similar to the early firefly-we will see. Later sown-early Oct Saki looks better. Specific GS timings and weather at the time playing a big part eg. later sown stuff got hit flowering with cold & wet so less septoria, more fusarium/michrodochium. To add to the mix, early finishing wheats after a late flowering= less grainfill period-stem & root fusarium fairly evident throughout. 17th October on, generally a lot better visually.

September(22rd on) sowing here has exacerbated a compound of issues. Later sowing BG land may be faring much better??

Varietal selection ongoing now more tricky. Have Illuminate & Prince seed that are better foliar, but got hit with fusarium in later flowering despite heavy duty seed head spray. Skyscraper is what it is, but even that has suffered with curtailed grainfill.

Do I need to go back to farming school....??!!

Really would be interested in how kitchen sink every year approach does this year. Likewise presence of any 'old cans' and what their use may have done. GS32 1L Aviator + Teb, GS39 1L Revysol GS59 Teb +/-PTZ when the weather turned


Who to blame? Me for picking 6.5 & 6.8 Septoria rated vars that have crashed when put under pressure. Learn a lot from years like this(unfortunately)-which in the east we have not had for a while. Danger, after having seen what 'can' happen when its bone dry & no sign of 4 inches of rain in May, is that you spend more every year 'just in case' and adopt an Irish approach.

Hence the interest how 'kitchen sink +' approach every year-you know who I am referring to-get on.

How did your LG varieties do? Picking a September driller to partner Gleam, with good septoria and midge is getting tough especially if the LG varieties have to be canned.

 

[teslacoils]

Walked osr. I'm convinced now that no new plants will grow. D day now set for Saturday to see what the existing ones do - grow or be eaten. Currently I'd say 85 percent of the field looks to have a crop. But that means the rest has to put in a fair showing.

Could potentially chop a dogleg off that has grown well then I'd have 6ha of osr!

 

[richard hammond]

Walked osr. I'm convinced now that no new plants will grow. D day now set for Saturday to see what the existing ones do - grow or be eaten. Currently I'd say 85 percent of the field looks to have a crop. But that means the rest has to put in a fair showing.

Could potentially chop a dogleg off that has grown well then I'd have 6ha of osr!

what was the starting area? 7.05 ish?

 

[teslacoils]

22ha

The 6ha is good. 10ha is ok. 3ha is poor. 3ha is non existent.

 

[serf]

I know rape sowing is done at a very busy time of the year but it does make you wonder if it's a case of "if your going to do a job do it properly".

What other crop that had a potential GM of £1500 plus a ha would you bugger in behind a subsoiler leg

My exact thoughts when I was travelling back tonight and seen the different states of OSR about sown with different methods !

 

[Fish]

osr drilled on the 28/8 starting to grow quickly now, only light csfb damage.

 

[teslacoils]

Will start ripping up the osr tomorrow. There are plants, blah blah blah, but too gappy. I've not the enthusiasm to keep chivvying it along in hope.

 

[teslacoils]

Ah wel, we had a go.

 

[teslacoils]

Osr much improved.