When to spray off flat spring oats..

[Wigeon]

I would be most grateful for a view on when to spray off this lot of elyann:

Still green obviously, and primary tiller flag leaf still green. Not had them flat before, so bit of a salvage job.
Primary tiller grains are just about there, secondary etc are milky.

Many thanks!

 

[Tractor Boy]

They look exactly like my Canyon oats…..which I sprayed off this morning. Heads were all golden but everything below is as green as anything.

 

[spin cycle]

agronomist?

 

[Wigeon]

agronomist?

On paternity leave...

 

[spin cycle]

On paternity leave...

oh ffs ....hang on...if it's a company they must have cover

 

[Wigeon]

Indeed, though obviously TFF opinion equally valid!

 

[robs1]

My isabel oats might look like that too, really dont want to spray mine off as losses in the tramlines are going to be huge, not sure what to do tobe honest

 

[FarmerBruce]

Ask @Spencer

 

[z.man]

Sometime soon, recon you’ll lift them pretty easily on a nice day , don’t look to bad really

 

[Spencer]

Mine were the same, did them yesterday. Tramline losses are quite large and can be a problem with volunteers in following crop.

 

[Wigeon]

Yes a toss up between tramline losses and shrivelled grains from going too early, and on the other hand getting them in before they all fall over/it's christmas, reducing the greens in the sample, being able to bale the straw, and limiting the amount of extra late growth that they always seem to produce in a wet August...

 

[A.R.]

Mine look like that, agronomist says leave them alone.

 

[Wigeon]

My stand in agronomist who has only seen these pictures reckons leave it till next week, so will do so now and cross fingers for some sunshine.

 

[Flatlander]

My oats looked like that last year. Only way to make they combine friendly is to spray them. If heads are ripe don’t fret about tram lines get It done. Two weeks will pass before it’s died down anyways. Strob fungicide will keep the straw green til Christmas. Triazole this year was a different look.