- Location
- East meath/dublin
still only 17ac drilled and still no sign of that emerging from the waterlogged ground
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Winter Wheat Planting
- Thread starter Fuzzy
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Vibrance Duo is not likely to have a phyto toxic effect on the seed to my knowledge, what would be more important would be the germination and vigour of the seed originally, if that was good then you should be in just as good shape this autumn.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Gormers
Member
- Location
- east yorkshire
it’s this year’s seed. 98% germination
Was thinking what effect dressing would have for next year
- Location
- Limousin, France
Just the last piece of wheat is patchy. Not slugs but seed just sat in wet patches.
See pictures from France
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Braved looking at my one and only drilled field yesterday, its not pretty. It may be a blessing that we did not get more in! It was drilled fairly rough but the rain has hammered the surface into one flat, sloppy, water logged mass. When it does dry it will go like concrete. There are finally shoots emerging but they are not happy, hope the slugs have drowned or they will soon finish off the plants that have survived this far. Ground will not carry a size 9 wellington let alone a quad, are aerial slug pelleting services available yet?
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Braved looking at my one and only drilled field yesterday, its not pretty. It may be a blessing that we did not get more in! It was drilled fairly rough but the rain has hammered the surface into one flat, sloppy, water logged mass. When it does dry it will go like concrete. There are finally shoots emerging but they are not happy, hope the slugs have drowned or they will soon finish off the plants that have survived this far. Ground will not carry a size 9 wellington let alone a quad, are aerial slug pelleting services available yet?
I was thinking the other day that drones would be ideal for spreading Sluxx. It’s not a pesticide so perhaps reduced regs.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Train drones to identify, collect, and remove be slugs to special gastropod sanctuary areas specially provisioned on our mandatory 10 percent rewilded area? All under the paid supervision of the new Environmental Assurance Scheme? It's the future, chaps.
Have you been smoking summat wacky tes old boy?
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Recon thats an option in FARM SIM possibly (God help us all)
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No. It's the sort of trendy mental bulls**t that is more likely to get enacted than common sense. Slugs being all our own fault, apparently.
Trust me - Brian May etc would Chuck piles of money at slug saving drones if they thought it would get them a few pages of coverage in the Guardian.
Ditto the inevitable rise of "experts" to tell us what to do / govern our "compliance". It's all this kind of rubbish now.
Sluxx is a registered pesticide. It has a MAPP number (16571)
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Thats a fair description of a lot of wheat mine included !! The fields ploughed up dry enough and looked okish after drilling but the near continous rain has taken its toll . 2017 drilled wheat was mauled in in much worse conditions but it must have been dryer after because it didnt look as sick a month later . I wont attempt any more drilling till march. Cheap and cheerful spring barley might be a better paying propisition than half crops of wheat . Thats what i thought in Nov 17 when i pulled the plug on drilling. The april drilled barley yielded little over a ton acre due to the drought and the very patchy w wheat scraped 3 ton . Surely we wont get another drought ?!??Braved looking at my one and only drilled field yesterday, its not pretty. It may be a blessing that we did not get more in! It was drilled fairly rough but the rain has hammered the surface into one flat, sloppy, water logged mass. When it does dry it will go like concrete. There are finally shoots emerging but they are not happy, hope the slugs have drowned or they will soon finish off the plants that have survived this far. Ground will not carry a size 9 wellington let alone a quad, are aerial slug pelleting services available yet?
Jon 3085
Member
- Location
- Worcester, UK
- Location
- herefordshire
fwi says winter wheat planting will be 9% down on 2019 what a joke
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
It says something like “when someone asks how the seeds are doing”
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Do they read from the same hymn sheet as the USDA?
John Slejpner
Member
- Location
- Brick clay near Bedford
Wheat coming up through the mud.
Fingers crossed for kind conditions, at least till it makes the jump from seed to soil. For all of us.