Winter beans

[ollie989898]

Just starting to flower down here in devon, bit pale though, dont think they have been fixing much nitrogen. Also chocolate spot about.

They look very well!

 

[willy]

They didnt like the cold and wet.

Fudge em needing expensive cultivations. Direct drill and grow on shoestring. Kerb and the like to suit grassweed burden. Also remember the beneficial effect they have on soil structure.

Really really like beans. So simple

Gross margin of sweet f all, what’s to like.

 

[Tractor Boy]

My beans direct drilled with the 750 on 12th Oct.

 

[Feldspar]

Can’t agree with you there. Mine are flying. Drilled with the 750 on 12th Oct into Suffolk hanslope clay. I’ll try to put a picture up later.

Pleased to hear it!

 

[Feldspar]

My beans direct drilled with the 750 on 12th Oct.View attachment 663082

They look good. I think our mistake was drilling too late, but we were busy doing wheat up until that point. I think they wouldn't hurt going in the first week of October. Problem would be the speed of Kerb breakdown.

 

[Longneck]

Mine don’t look any where near as good as all these pictures. Drilled direct with the Horsch/metcalfs end of October.
Will get a picture tomorrow if I’m brave enough!

 

[Case290]

Beans here pale looking and chocolate spot in some fields. Growing ok Just starting to flower ... fungicide + mag Wednesday

 

[SilliamWhale]

Gross margin of sweet f all, what’s to like.

Ooh i dunno. Spring beans this year may be £180-200 ton.

 

[Tractor Boy]

They look good. I think our mistake was drilling too late, but we were busy doing wheat up until that point. I think they wouldn't hurt going in the first week of October. Problem would be the speed of Kerb breakdown.

True. These had Kerb pre em and where I know there is blackgrass some crawler in Feb! Not ideal but one of the reasons I grow them is to hit blackgrass with this chemistry.

 

[Oat]

They look good. I think our mistake was drilling too late, but we were busy doing wheat up until that point. I think they wouldn't hurt going in the first week of October. Problem would be the speed of Kerb breakdown.

When did you drill. I have drilled in December and January and had good crops

 

[Clive]

I will get some pic's of mine and post, not as forward as the pics here though, early november drilled and went in well

 

[ollie989898]

I will get some pic's of mine and post, not as forward as the pics here though, early november drilled and went in well

More people hating on beans should suit other growers fine. Excellent for feeding cattle around here so plenty of end users.

Trouble with OSR is it is becoming increasingly risky to grow and such a hefty upfront spend to get it.

 

[Clive]

More people hating on beans should suit other growers fine. Excellent for feeding cattle around here so plenty of end users.

Trouble with OSR is it is becoming increasingly risky to grow and such a hefty upfront spend to get it.

Anyone thinking they can farm with only OSR as their none cereal crop soon comes unstuck with slugs, clubroot or steady decline in yield and increase in weed issues thats for sure. They only way to grow OSR now is at low cost / low risk, gate is shut on mine until harvest now I hope at £115/ac VC spend and it looks cracking at the moment - i've spent 3x that in the past to have crops that didn't look as good !

Beans are the next best none cereal break IMO - what else is there that is low risk / cheap to grow as a none cereal break, GM's are not exciting but what choice ?

 

[Longneck]

Here you go then, these are the best.....

And these are about the worst......

 

[Mr Charisma]

Trio , cultipress , vaddy drilled
Stomp pre em , crawler in Dec , very clean weed wise but a fair bit of downy mildew and chocolates spot and pea and bean weevil have had a party

 

[Andrew K]

Clive,
Have you done them with a hefty dose of manganese,always helps IMO?

 

[ollie989898]

Clive,
Have you done them with a hefty dose of manganese,always helps IMO?

I agree. I have also whacked them with phosphate in the past. Wonder if croplift would help. Someone do a tramline as an experiment.

 

[Clive]

still looking rubbish - thinking nematode is to blame despite tested seed and no history on that land

going to try a good does of Mg and Mn to see if it helps

or......................... too late to drill linseed ?

or maybe just shut the gate on them ?

 

[Neddy flanders]

suspect its weevil eating the nodules. ours flowering but only 12" high. cant see more than 1t/ac this year

 

[Neddy flanders]

Anyone thinking they can farm with only OSR as their none cereal crop soon comes unstuck with slugs, clubroot or steady decline in yield and increase in weed issues thats for sure. They only way to grow OSR now is at low cost / low risk, gate is shut on mine until harvest now I hope at £115/ac VC spend and it looks cracking at the moment - i've spent 3x that in the past to have crops that didn't look as good !

Beans are the next best none cereal break IMO - what else is there that is low risk / cheap to grow as a none cereal break, GM's are not exciting but what choice ?

agree clive. trouble is you can rotate OSR 1 in 3 or evn 1 in 2 , but beans need such a long break you very soon run out of land. linseed? fallow? anotherosrcrop??