Wheat disappearing any ideas

[Birchfarmer]

View attachment 728890 View attachment 728892 Got a field of wheat on peaty sand,the sandy side of field is ok and headlands ,drilled 16/9
NO sign of slugs at all.
Getting eaten off at bottom,mainly cross drilling where stubble is more prevalent(Straw baled)
Looks like leatherjacket damage or wire worm damage,but can’t find any when I dug a hole dug.
Any ideas.? And potential cure.
Many thank in advance for reply’s

 

[Birchfarmer]

Forgot to add
Rotation ( not all mine)
Been carrots,spring barley,winter barley,winter wheat,winter wheat.

 

[A.R.]

Looks like it follows the chaff from combine,it's probably slugs. I have some soil like that on a very small part of the farm and wheat went yellow and purple before disappearing like that,tried all sorts, the only thing to sort it was a healthy dose of FYM.

 

[Sprog]

We we had frit fly damage in some second wheats last year in lines up the field where the straw had been.

 

[limestone brash]

Pellet it this afternoon and have a look for slime balls in the morning

 

[Shahryar]

Have a look at this https://www.yara.co.uk/crop-nutrition/wheat/, maybe you can find something useful here.

 

[Exfarmer]

slugs do not like sand either so I would go slugs

 

[goodevans]

View attachment 728890 View attachment 728892 Got a field of wheat on peaty sand,the sandy side of field is ok and headlands ,drilled 16/9
NO sign of slugs at all.
Getting eaten off at bottom,mainly cross drilling where stubble is more prevalent(Straw baled)
Looks like leatherjacket damage or wire worm damage,but can’t find any when I dug a hole dug.
Any ideas.? And potential cure.
Many thank in advance for reply’s

Not the problem but very early to drill second wheat on soil like that

 

[An Gof]

Are plants showing signs of dying from the centre? Any shoots you can pull out and find larvae in?

 

[icanshootwell]

View attachment 728890 View attachment 728892 Got a field of wheat on peaty sand,the sandy side of field is ok and headlands ,drilled 16/9
NO sign of slugs at all.
Getting eaten off at bottom,mainly cross drilling where stubble is more prevalent(Straw baled)
Looks like leatherjacket damage or wire worm damage,but can’t find any when I dug a hole dug.
Any ideas.? And potential cure.
Many thank in advance for reply’s

Have a area in one of my fields that look like yours, no signs of slugs in mine either but will spread a few on just to make sure, mine is after oats, hoping the wheat that,s left will grow away.

 

[goodevans]

Have a area in one of my fields that look like yours, no signs of slugs in mine either but will spread a few on just to make sure, mine is after oats, hoping the wheat that,s left will grow away.

I would be pretty certain it is frit fly after oats that live in the chaff until the new seed is planted especially if it is in the combine swaths