Wheat pics 09/06/13

[warksfarmer]

Taken yesterday.

Pics 1 - 3. Solstice.

Pics 4 - 7. Untreated Solstice. No chemicals or fertilisers at all.

Pics 8-10. Edgar

 

[warksfarmer]

Pics attached this time.

 

[Daniel]

What's the thinking behind pics 4-7?

I posted these elsewhere this morning:

Solstice, treated:

And untreated, sprayer miss:

 

[warksfarmer]

What's the thinking behind pics 4-7?

I posted these elsewhere this morning:

Solstice, treated:

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And untreated, sprayer miss:

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Just a little play around really. It's where we set the auto steer up on the drill and initially forgot about it to be honest. We're going to give a cheap ear wash and that's it. Then cut it and measure the yield.

It's weedy without doubt but where there is wheat is far less weedy than where there isn't so obviously the plant does shade weeds out to a certain extent.

 

[Daniel]

Will you have the bottle to replicate that on a field scale next year?!

From ours the evidence for spraying was pretty conclusive, that disease level spread across a whole field rather than in a strip surrounded by treated crop...

I only applied the 't1' to our spring wheat last week (Mulika) and it was very clean disease wise, fairly weedy though, I don't think the crop canopy would provide enough cover to smother them, another 3 weeks and it would look very messy.

 

[bobk]

There has to be some residual N in that wheat, I have done same with some s/b and it's as yellow as a yellow thing

 

[warksfarmer]

There has to be some residual N in that wheat, I have done same with some s/b and it's as yellow as a yellow thing

Don't think so to be honest as its following a fallow. Last crop was 2011 which was maize.