Sugar Beet 2020

[Laggard]

Something is having a nibble

 

[robbie]

There was a picture earlier today on faceache of someone's beet that looked like they had classic flee beetle damage.

 

[shakerator]

Shot holing !
The is a flea beetle / weevil for every broadleaf crop!

 

[robbie]

Yep theres a beet flee beetle and now neonics have gone I fear us beet growers are heading the same way as osr grower.

 

[spin cycle]

nah they'll get over that.....get em lookin like that most years.....need a rain though

 

[DrWazzock]

In a dry time it’s the sort of thing that can tip the balance as with OSR. Can see sone flea beetle damage here on the beet. They seem to be grazing the first two true leaves faster than they grow at the moment which isn’t very fast at all. Probably another thing neonics kept away without us really knowing about it.

 

[DrWazzock]

Had the guidance leaflet from BBRO on herbicide timings.
Don’t spray if there has been wind damage, high uv levels, wide variation in day/ night temps, frost or anything else stressing the crop.
So never spray it this year then.
That’s advisers for you.

 

[robbie]

Had the guidance leaflet from BBRO on herbicide timings.
Don’t spray if there has been wind damage, high uv levels, wide variation in day/ night temps, frost or anything else stressing the crop.
So never spray it this year then.
That’s advisers for you.

It's called arse covering, I was thinking exactly the same. Spraying this year is going to be a right nightmare especially as I haven't got my get out of jail free card of maxpro. Straight phen isn't going to give me the flexibility maxpro used to.

 

[Kam]

It's called arse covering, I was thinking exactly the same. Spraying this year is going to be a right nightmare especially as I haven't got my get out of jail free card of maxpro. Straight phen isn't going to give me the flexibility maxpro used to.

Just curios as to why you didn't buy a stock of maxxPro before it was withdrawn? I have my requirements in the shed.

 

[robbie]

Simply because I was a twit and thought the purchase date was 31st jan when it was actually 1st jan.

 

[Flat 10]

Well I was feeling smug about the 20mm we got Easter Sunday. Not so happy now, some of it has capped badly.

 

[Kam]

Well I was feeling smug about the 20mm we got Easter Sunday. Not so happy now, some of it has capped badly.

If it's any comfort, I'm in the same boat. Really could have done with more than the 1 mm we got on Saturday to help break the cap.

 

[robbie]

No cap here but I have got trouble with bloddy skylark coming out of an adjacent crop of winter barley and nipping the leaves of in places they've done a full 12 rows[emoji35]

The beet here just aren't moving they desperately need a good rain.

 

[Farmer T]

Had the guidance leaflet from BBRO on herbicide timings.
Don’t spray if there has been wind damage, high uv levels, wide variation in day/ night temps, frost or anything else stressing the crop.
So never spray it this year then.
That’s advisers for you.

I was confused by this message. Especially given the cost to levy payers to post this out ?‍

 

[Flat 10]

I was confused by this message. Especially given the cost to levy payers to post this out ?‍

I just arrived back for breakfast after spraying beet with herbicide to find the BBRO's advice as a greed what a waste of money.

 

[DrWazzock]

No cap here but I have got trouble with bloddy skylark coming out of an adjacent crop of winter barley and nipping the leaves of in places they've done a full 12 rows[emoji35]

The beet here just aren't moving they desperately need a good rain.

Have you tried putting a few trays of water out in the field for the skylarks? That’s what my fields man told me to do. They are looking for a drink apparently, not the leaves themselves.

 

[Exfarmer]

Be careful of pigeon damage as well, only remember it one year but they stripped 10- 15 acres at the 2 leaf stage. Also of course partridge fancy them too

 

[robbie]

Have you tried putting a few trays of water out in the field for the skylarks? That’s what my fields man told me to do. They are looking for a drink apparently, not the leaves themselves.

That's on my list of jobs to do. I'd always bee led to believe it's the moisture they want.
Its lovely having a healthy population of them and I do love to hear them high up in the sky singing away but at this time of the year they're a pain in the bum.

 

[DrWazzock]

Hares nibble a few off.

First pair true leaves struggling to develop here. Plants look a bit yellow from stress and herbicide. Minerals would help but wind won’t drop. Constant 20 mph gusting 35 here. Tiresome, but not blowing the sand in a big way yet. Horse manure and rough seedbed generally holding it.
My worst area is a very knobbly bit of clay that I didn’t work down fine enough. Nothing there at all other than split seed coatings and dried out seedlings. About 2 acres out of 20. Might redrill after working it down but it would need a good rain to get it going as it’s dry as a bone. Don’t know if it’s worth the bother and running on ones that have emerged.

 

[Flat 10]

Be careful of pigeon damage as well, only remember it one year but they stripped 10- 15 acres at the 2 leaf stage. Also of course partridge fancy them too

we normally suffer pigeon damage here. One day they look lovely, next all gone.