Wheat after beet in December

[glasshouse]

Often see people trying to sell half a bag of seed ect on Facebook… just calibrate your drill so there’s nothing left an get it in the ground

Haha

 

[ridger]

Plenty of bangers or such like then.

Beside a housing estate though. Have scarecrows up but the wind blew them all over, going to hammer them in again in morning

 

[JCfarmer]

Just 11 acres of wheat not drilled after spuds and staying that way.
Wheat would be 6 to 8 weeks before it came through, pigeons, rooks and expensive fert etc!
Will plough it this week.
Spring barley will go in instead.

 

[Flat 10]

4 drills going in the parish last week.

 

[JCfarmer]

4 drills going in the parish last week.

Boys land

 

[Flat 10]

Boys land

Potato land is boys land!!!

 

[robbie]

@JCfarmer
This is boys land.....well more toddlers land actually.
Drilled the 2nd December

 

[JCfarmer]

Potato land is boys land!!!

It's medium to heavy in parts, the rest of the ex spud ground was drilled a month ago on boys land!

 

[JCfarmer]

@JCfarmer
This is boys land.....well more toddlers land actually.
Drilled the 2nd December View attachment 1081897

That's girls land!

 

[robbie]

That's girls land!

It can be sole destroying land in a dry June.

Edit soul, not sole....although the flints are sharp!!!!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Still got just under half our Ww to drill here

 

[JCfarmer]

It can be sole destroying land in a dry June.

I know you have said in the past, I don't envy you.

 

[Lincsman]

Just 11 acres of wheat not drilled after spuds and staying that way.
Wheat would be 6 to 8 weeks before it came through, pigeons, rooks and expensive fert etc!
Will plough it this week.
Spring barley will go in instead.

You sure, its less than £200 off the combine now?

 

[JCfarmer]

You sure, its less than £200 off the combine now?

What barley we grow we mostly feed ourselves

 

[Flintstone]

I echo the comments about corvids and late wheat drilling.

Last January we had a nice dry spell in the New Year, and I cracked on with 200 acres of Cochise spring wheat drilling. It went in a treat. However, once the rooks found it, I was keeping them off with bangers for about 6 weeks before it emerged.
After that, they left it alone.

250 kgs of seed. Apart from the rooks, it was a successful and cheap crop.

No pre-em.
One PGR.
One Herbicide.
One fungicide.
140 kgs N.
2.65 t/acre.
Sold at £258 + £42 premium.

 

[Hampton]

hoping to lift another 20 acre of fodder beet this next week, would like to try and get it back into wheat as I have some seed that needs using up still in the shed.
What seed rates are folks drilling wheat at currently after beet?
Last year we put wheat in December and end of January but went too low a rate and got hammered by birds. The December stuff did ok but the January/feb drilled wasn’t worth doing.
Extase farm saved wheat seed

Put some into some ploughed turf around 2 weeks ago. Still waiting for it to come through although it’s just below surface.
Untreated 235kg/ha.
Would probably go higher now

 

[ridger]

I have a thin stand of ww but I think it will grow a crop. What pgr is best to hit it with in spring to give it its best chance?

 

[Flat 10]

I have a thin stand of ww but I think it will grow a crop. What pgr is best to hit it with in spring to give it its best chance?

Rolls. No pgr

 

[Flat 10]

Plus early N

 

[Brisel]

Plus early N

80 kg N