Sugar Beet 2020

Laggard

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Something is having a nibble
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robbie

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BASIS
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

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Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
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Just curios as to why you didn't buy a stock of maxxPro before it was withdrawn?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

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BASIS
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

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Location
East Midlands
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 ?‍♂️
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
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.
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
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

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
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.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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