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Several meters of topsoil!Some nice dirt in that part of the country, rather expensive now though.
Right, everyone in the UK call their Bayer rep and say they want 17 tonnes!
Several meters of topsoil!Some nice dirt in that part of the country, rather expensive now though.
Several meters of topsoil!
Right, everyone in the UK call their Bayer rep and say they want 17 tonnes!
Depends whether you're pumping from a river, or spending £150k on a reservoir, I guess.Is irrigating wheat expensive? Any one know how much it cost to put an inch on an acre?
I have absolutely zero interest in the highest yielding crop
all I am interested in is consistency in variable / extreme climates & the most profitable crop
That was a great result but consider yourself lucky !!! Either you had a lot less rain than others or you drilled varities that had exceptional resistance to septoria .Same here. Home saved seed undressed nor cleaned, 1 x herb, 1 x fung, 150kg N. Nothing else applied and we shut the gate and walked away in late March. Sold 3t/ac of milling wheat. Highest price £247/t.
Interestingly the same year we had a trial where we applied zero input other than seed and that yielded 2t/ac over a weighbridge.
I’m afraid people throwing the kitchen sink at crops year after year are on the road to nowhere. This country is heading down the organic path whether we like it or not. Trade deals will see to it.
That was a great result but consider yourself lucky !!! Either you had a lot less rain than others or you drilled varities that had exceptional resistance to septoria .
A neighbour had 80 acres of wheat after spuds. He was leaning in the same direction as you and was reluctant to spend money on " cans " as he felt the adviser was to ready to recomend expensive products when a " sniff of Opus " should do on his "good land " .The forward selling of 200 ton at 160 a ton in feb might have influenced his thinking but after 3 weeks of solid rain in july the septoria devestated the crop The final result ? A bare ton acre of rubbish c that was hard to keep in the combine. I know because i cut it. One ha to be flexible in a wet climate never shut the gate prematurely . My wheat got 4 fungcides one very expensive flag leaf and 3 cheap and cheerful CTL based mixes and managed 3 ton . If Organic is the future then grain growing will cease over here given our rainfall .