What will you do with that? Plough and combination would probably go on most of that soil nicely. How will you prepare for the claydon or were you joking?View attachment 928290View attachment 928291
This is planned to go in with wheat,going to be a challenge for the Claydon,luckily its just one headland.
Will drill probably pull the plug at the start of February.
Gotta love sugar beet
Wheat drilling 2020
- Thread starter Flintstone
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- Location
- south norfolk
That’s the trouble with beet at this time of year on this type of land.plenty round here with ruts at least 2ft deep and standing with water.seen maize land in a similar state today and newly drilled cereals Standing with water.View attachment 928290View attachment 928291
This is planned to go in with wheat,going to be a challenge for the Claydon,luckily its just one headland.
Will drill probably pull the plug at the start of February.
Gotta love sugar beet
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This is planned to go in with wheat,going to be a challenge for the Claydon,luckily its just one headland.
Will drill probably pull the plug at the start of February.
Gotta love sugar beet
That's not what a Claydon is for! Have you got anything that can level it up like a drag or Carrier?
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
If every one thinks this then malting barley premium will be a lot higher
spring malting barley coups be worth more than wheat in 12 months time
Only one thing for that ,and its plough it ,
Get it turned over ,if a crop will grow sown with a claydon into that even of levelled , will be amazed
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Thought it might be asking to much of the Claydon.
Its a really good drill but not that good.
I'll run the Rolmarko short disc over it,just need 2 consecutive dry days,which at the moment is not happening.
This heathland is very forgiving luckily but I hate doing damage too it like this.
Looks like its going to be a plough/ combi drill job,which I still have,but I was trying not to use.
If we get a dry cold week in January still hope the Claydon will go.
This was drilled after the last lift, one pass to level up with short disc and straight in with Claydon.
Our last autumn crops went in on the 24th October
We had about 15days flat out drilling, sone less than perfect - thats not exactly a big window again and very tight to plan for if it is to become the normal
it has rained ever since, I’m told i farm “boys land” but no way we have had a single drilling day since that last day
Either we really have had terrible weather 2 years in a row now or I do not farm boys land ??
We had about 15days flat out drilling, sone less than perfect - thats not exactly a big window again and very tight to plan for if it is to become the normal
it has rained ever since, I’m told i farm “boys land” but no way we have had a single drilling day since that last day
Either we really have had terrible weather 2 years in a row now or I do not farm boys land ??
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Weather has been pretty gash for any sort of later drilling. There is a lot of very sad clay with wheat variably in it, with quad bike wheelings in where pellets gave gone on late. Very small window for seeding this year.
Looks really good!
You do farm boys land as you will be whinging as soon as we have 3 weeks of sun in June (just like me) but you have had a crap autumn (just like me)
Same here and temperatures are higher, thereby encouraging more growth.
Cut it now and there'd already be more than the 2 bales/acre we had last July.
Oi, you are supposed to cheer the rest of us up..... you wouldn’t get a bale off 50acres hereSame here and temperatures are higher, thereby encouraging more growth.
Cut it now and there'd already be more than the 2 bales/acre we had last July.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Had a good few days drilling last week, only 12 acres left to do, but it was spuds and I don’t think I could plough through the trenches I’ve needed to dig to let the water off
. . . . anyone here know of a cheap and cheerful fix for rhynchosporium?
Frost?!
Some background reading
Rhynchosporium in barley | AHDB
Rhynchosporium remains the main barley disease in wetter areas of the UK. Variety choice is important to minimise disease risk, but resistant varieties can show disease where specific races occur.
ahdb.org.uk
Foliar fungicide activity and seed treatment options for barley | AHDB
This information will help you match fungicides to the primary disease risk(s) in barley
ahdb.org.uk
Nothing cheap as such, but at least we still have fungicides that work - prothioconazole, fluxapyroxad, isopyrazam. Non chemical prevention is to lower N rates, drill later, good fertility etc.
- Location
- East yorks
Wet but nowhere near as wet as last year here yet.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Even wetter than last year here.