- Location
- East yorks
depends how the couple of saucer full i have on the window sill perform. I have a tonne of 2018 which will just need to get used up somewhere but the 2019 has no issues so far
Wheat drilling 2020
- Thread starter Flintstone
- Start date
depends how the couple of saucer full i have on the window sill perform. I have a tonne of 2018 which will just need to get used up somewhere but the 2019 has no issues so far
- Location
- Shropshire
We are just finishing muck spreading, then will start Monday afternoon after TB test.
Perfect conditions currently
Perfect conditions currently
Nothing. All tested and 95-98% germination even where treated.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Latitude dressed seed from last autumn, down to 86% germination
- Location
- Shropshire
What about vigour?
That wasn’t tested. Ask me again in 6 weeks!
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
BYVD not an issue? Was it that bad you have dropped wheat and barley from your rotation this Autumn....
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Many years ago we had a field of Jockey dressed Diego... I could see the line in the field where the old seed ran out and the new seed started, from emergence to harvest. The stored seed the germination was probably 10% down which in error we had not compensated for when drilling.. it was also much slower to get out of the ground, very reluctant to tiller and finished up being noticeably shorter too. I was glad it was only a part bag... For a while I blamed it on storing treated seed... buts its possible it was always poor performing seed
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
none, chances are it will be better than this years, just test some you will know in less than 24 hours
we have plenty of seed , last years just had the germ results all over 93% start end next week.Biggest issue I have is a brother saying “Got to get it in”
No problem at the moment no seed yet.
Bg
i will take the risk what do you do with it otherwise?
- Location
- Shropshire
I have almost all my seed left over from last year.
I will drill it 5-10% higher to cope with germination and vigour loss
- Location
- Shropshire
Apart from the 2 tonne of Zyatt/latitude which I will increase by 20%
BYVD not an issue? Was it that bad you have dropped wheat and barley from your rotation this Autumn....
not used seed dressing or insecticide for 9 or 10 years now and not had a problem yet
Get your soils and rotation healthy and it’s a none issue , healthy soils grow healthy plants with brix levels that aphid don’t like / bother with
yields actually ended up much better than expected.......... but we’re still rubbish !
- Location
- cheshire
Going to start Monday here 1st wheats after let out spud ground luxury to have them lifted now so not going to miss chance
In reality would have started Monday anyhow on tricky fields some would be in 2nd slot and yes some would say to early but I’m old enough now to know trying to be clever and wait another month on heavy cold clay usually means a cobbled in mess or no crop at all
Yes I know optimum drilling dates etc but I can’t drill everything that day plough and combi here so work on theory that starting now we will get a fair spread of drilling dates and when we average everything out next harvest won’t be to far out yield wise
Got a bit of blackgrass in odd fields that’s at a manageable level and hasn’t worsened in 5 years and fortunately these fields will be spring crops this time
So loathed to miss some decent weather so will crack on
In reality would have started Monday anyhow on tricky fields some would be in 2nd slot and yes some would say to early but I’m old enough now to know trying to be clever and wait another month on heavy cold clay usually means a cobbled in mess or no crop at all
Yes I know optimum drilling dates etc but I can’t drill everything that day plough and combi here so work on theory that starting now we will get a fair spread of drilling dates and when we average everything out next harvest won’t be to far out yield wise
Got a bit of blackgrass in odd fields that’s at a manageable level and hasn’t worsened in 5 years and fortunately these fields will be spring crops this time
So loathed to miss some decent weather so will crack on
I've levelled some brixx today .
I was drilling before it got light this morning , which is a rarity for me .
should finish the block after OSR tomorrow. Get it all rolled on Monday .
I think it's right to crack on , no knowing what the weather will , huge hurricane coming our way .