glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
You are 300 miles north
In 1995 /96 we had record yields
I have never bettered my 96 wheat of 12t/ha
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"Will crops survive" poll????
- Thread starter Bossfarmer
- Start date
In 1995 /96 we had record yields
I have never bettered my 96 wheat of 12t/ha
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
out of interest i noticed a fair bit of dew on the barley this morning what causes this and could dew be the eqivalent to mabye 0.2mm?
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
whats causing the increased amounts
Oh @Bossfarmer you really are a character!
A heavy dew can be up to 10,000l/Ha or 1mm of rain.
A heavy dew can be up to 10,000l/Ha or 1mm of rain.
Have you ever heard of the “dew point” look it up and you should be able to work it out for yourself.
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
The favorable weather elements for dew include clear skies, light wind, decent soil moisture
"decent soil moisture"???? the ground is as dry as ive seen it!
"decent soil moisture"???? the ground is as dry as ive seen it!
DRC
Member
What % of yield shall I put for this @Bossfarmer . It looked very well coming out of the winter, with my agronomist saying then it was the best field he’d got this year on any of his farms .
Minesapint
Member
- Location
- Oxon
I’ve got a mix of ploughed, min till, and DD. It’s all equally dying. Being over gravel here, it is all about water table, we are waterlogged most winters, and then drought out most springs. This is extreme though. Gate now shut, mostly spring drilled and not much spent on crops, and genuinely pleased I didn’t get any w wheat drilled, as it would have had money thrown at it. There’s always next year?
APJ
Member
- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
What % of yield shall I put for this @Bossfarmer . It looked very well coming out of the winter, with my agronomist saying then it was the best field he’d got this year on any of his farms .
Our agronomist also told me the same!!! But ours is still holding in there so far!
Neither do I. It’s going to be a painful year financially for me doing my own agronomy and buying supply only. Heaven help some of the poor chaps with “enthusiastic” service agronomists.
Look up dew point.
I'm amazed how things have deteriorated this last week.
Been doing T2 this morning on thin ground, and dry stony patches are about dead. Parts of fields with clay content where soil is always stickier in autumn, look normal crop.
Sadly the stony/sandy bits prevail.
Been doing T2 this morning on thin ground, and dry stony patches are about dead. Parts of fields with clay content where soil is always stickier in autumn, look normal crop.
Sadly the stony/sandy bits prevail.
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It’s that viscous east wind with the high temps that has cooked it ? evapotranspiration must be horrendous this season.
- Location
- Cirencester
Have both here John, min tilled (Autumn) Spring ground got away better (as no cultivation this Spring hence no moisture loss) Ploughed ground (Spring) is ok but, it was a case of plough a field and then drill asap as moisture was going very quickly in that Easterly we had. Have a friend who ploughed, power harrow'd and then went in with a combi (he likes a fine seedbed!) but they lost the moisture and Spring crops there look poor.
Looking at them now, not a lot between them to be fair, ploughed maybe a tad more "patchy".
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Spraying s barley this morning and tractor covered with daddy longlegs. When drilling I was followed by crows pecking at something. Now I know that it was leatherjacket larva.
Yet another problem we can't do anything about!
Yet another problem we can't do anything about!
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
some bits darker green than others 50%, mabye 75 if it rains soonWhat % of yield shall I put for this @Bossfarmer . It looked very well coming out of the winter, with my agronomist saying then it was the best field he’d got this year on any of his farms .
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
As the amount of sun light since March as broken all records l would expect the develop Of crops to be ahead of the average
If it stays dry till harvest all this extra sun will come to nothing
Spring barley awns poking this week end
Not sure how much earlier it is as in most years we cannot get it drilled so early March 27 drilling
Later planted barley still a week or so behind
beans just flowering
If it stays dry till harvest all this extra sun will come to nothing
Spring barley awns poking this week end
Not sure how much earlier it is as in most years we cannot get it drilled so early March 27 drilling
Later planted barley still a week or so behind
beans just flowering
To be honest the differential between a cheaper t1 and t2 and the sdhi regime shouldn't be too massive. £20-30 acre?