Wet crop pics...please

[gone up the hill]

Many fields here look really sad, sitting wet all the time since drilling more or less. Some are worse than others for any reason.

Here`s my early september DDed barley into osr-stubble. Drowned after drilling, redrilled and drowned again. Never really dried up since.
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Neighbours ploughed field looks not much better. Ploughed early november rather wet, mulled seed in with ph-combo and got rain after that, never stopped since.View attachment 254492

That barley will be a waste of time, will need to go into a Spring crop.

 

[Wombat]

Just to add this was a field of wheat in Nov 2012. Went on to do 3t/acre across the field

Looks similar today

 

[TelesnaAg]

Just to add this was a field of wheat in Nov 2012. Went on to do 3t/acre across the field

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Looks similar today

Unreal....I'm so glad I found this site as the agronomy is alot more closer to what I need versus what I get over here!!...

Ant..

 

[Iben]

Unreal....I'm so glad I found this site as the agronomy is alot more closer to what I need versus what I get over here!!...

Ant..

There you go! Submerge your wheat for three weeks and your yields will go up 50%.

 

[bert]

Had some wheat under water for 5 days a week or 2 ago, after a blocked pipe. Got it unblocked and looks well again now. Got about 30 acre of wheat flooded atm, not worried about it, will be out with the digger tomorrow to speed the process along. Got some osr under water too, not sure how that will fair though

 

[TelesnaAg]

I never new anything about fungicides before joining this site...I had my N application timing all out of whack plus the importance of potash and sulphur etc...seeding rate to low as alot of tiller die in water logged periods...the variety I used was more a spring wheat variety and very uneven maturity..and got 30-40% eyespot damage because I'm so close to coast...the list goes on...

Every one was saying its to wet to grow wheat where I am and I'm like..it can't be they do it everywhere else in the world...so I'm confident now when I grow my next crop I can get it to fire with the right program and a winter variety of wheat...

They are growing a red wheat variety called revenue over here that s dual purpose so the ye sow early it's in the ground for 9 plus months and they graze it...that's been going 9-10 t/ha in wet areas so it's definitely possible..

I'm not so confident on any winter barley variety we have here...to put up with the wet...is six row better than two row?...or I might be better off with oats...or grow wheat or beans and buy barley in...

Ant...

 

[franklin]

No, winter barley would *hate* that wet.

Could you grow a spring barley and plant it after the wet has gone away / evaporation rate increased?

 

[TelesnaAg]

Yes but the springs are getting dry here...so it's risky...I will have a crack at some point..undersown with Lucerne...I trialled a variety this year that I'm very happy with...I'd really like to grow a clover silage crop...planted autumn...whip that off start of spring and sow the barley and Lucerne...I'd feel like a genius if I pulled that off!!...

Ant...

 

[franklin]

Spring barley is a fairly short season crop. I would expect it would be ok unless you are getting really high summer temps. Goes in mid or early April here and off mid August, and I presume you would be moving the soil in autumn and drilling with no cultivation in the spring?. Certainly if your fields regualry as waterlogged as the pics then winter barley will be a total no-go. I have had winter oats reduced to a few brown stumps due to -17 frosts but they did well. No idea what they would think of being under water.

 

[ridger]

Iv a field of wheat which hasn't seen a dry day since it was drilled, 9 weeks ago. I rollered it after drilling which I now know was a mistake, the field has all established apart from the wheelings from rolling tractor. I'm hoping it tillers out a bit in spring

 

[Barley man]

Hi this is my wheat after been flooded for 3rd time this year river went down this morning

 

[mo!]

That yellow brown in the distance...maize.

 

[woodylane]

That yellow brown in the distance...maize.

Jeeze I hope Clive doesn't see them photos

 

[marcot]

Yeah he will have you tied to a stake and publicly flogged!!!!

 

[mo!]

Jeeze I hope Clive doesn't see them photos

It was strip tilled! Rather in the field than in the house, and this will have saved thousands of houses in York.

 

[Theswede]

That yellow brown in the distance...maize.

Is it this wet in general in the UK this year or is it just some small areas?

 

[mo!]

Is it this wet in general in the UK this year or is it just some small areas?

This is part of a flood protection scheme, we would expect similar flooding once in three years or so. Other parts have had big floods due to record rainfall, a month's rain in a day. This is on top of the normal rain.

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

Is it this wet in general in the UK this year or is it just some small areas?

Some of the above pictures would have been typical of parts of my farm around this time last year. This year however despite plenty of wet weather we've missed all the serious rainfall and not even been close to having any flooding.

 

[yellow belly]

Wheat will cope with flooding but you will see a yield reduction
Tile / plastic drains pay a big return on land that is water logged regularly because when it dries out in the spring summer the drained land withstands drought better
A 2 to 3 tonne per ha yield increase due to drainage easily pays for the cost

 

[TelesnaAg]

It's the old catch 22 but..you need a good crop to afford the drainage...you can't grow a good crop without the drainage...

I have drains running through my place so I'm concentrating setting the land up to fall the right way soit all drains off...I'd love tile drainage but cost and limited places to run it to...

Ant...