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Winter Wheat Planting

What % of Winter Wheat have you Planted

  • Nothing

    Votes: 100 26.0%
  • Less than 25%

    Votes: 49 12.7%
  • 26-50%

    Votes: 43 11.2%
  • 51-75%

    Votes: 53 13.8%
  • 76-90%

    Votes: 51 13.2%
  • All of it !!

    Votes: 89 23.1%

  • Total voters
    385
  • Poll closed .

Gormers

Member
Location
east yorkshire
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.

it’s this year’s seed. 98% germination
Was thinking what effect dressing would have for next year
 

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? :rolleyes:
 

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? :rolleyes:

I was thinking the other day that drones would be ideal for spreading Sluxx. It’s not a pesticide so perhaps reduced regs.
 

Spud

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
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?
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Have you been smoking summat wacky tes old boy?

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.
 

Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
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? :rolleyes:
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 ?!??
 

Jon 3085

Member
Location
Worcester, UK
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Wheat coming up through the mud.
 

How is your SFI 24 application progressing?

  • havn't been invited to apply

    Votes: 29 34.9%
  • have been invited to apply

    Votes: 17 20.5%
  • applied but not yet accepted

    Votes: 29 34.9%
  • agreement up and running

    Votes: 8 9.6%

Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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