Crap crops

bob charles

Having a spring in my step this morning after being away for the last 10 days and everyone on here saying you's were have great weather on here, it wasnt long till I was more than a little peeved off. Growth in the last 10 days has being exceptionally poor for this time of the year. Im told that a good stiff breeze most of last week was the cause. Taking things serious I think Im looking at a 25% write down on crop predictions from about 3 weeks ago. So

Grass growth is poor (will we even grow 75% of normal)
Winter Wheat is okay to average,
Spring Wheat is poor to average, ditto spring barley
Beet is poor, plants are there, 3-4 weeks behind normal already
Maize under plastic is poor
only good local crops I saw was Rape and winter barley look okay.

ground is now capped off pretty badly and need soft rain to get things moving. Only crops that improved over the last week was what received foliar nitrogen 10 days ago.

tabby aspreme

Since the 10 mm of rain that fell last Monday spring sown crops have grown more than in the six weeks prior to that, but they are still well behind around here .
Lads used to say on a good year sugar beet leaves should be meeting the next row by June 1 ,they are only an inch high now and they grew that inch in the last week

jp6470

field early potatoes looking great.nice warm field.
Winter wheat good.
Spring barley poor but ok.neighbours hill looks a disaster this year,rabbits are enjoying it all I see.
Alot plastic down around us,see nothing,a crop I never grew.so could be time enought.
Reseeded start march few feilds,rolled them today.now looks like a well kept lawn.slowest i ever seen.topped up again today with fertilizer.alot weeds now coming.but don't want to stall it even more the young grass by spraying.

Farmer Pudsey

jp6470 wrote: »

field early potatoes looking great.nice warm field.
Winter wheat good.
Spring barley poor but ok.neighbours hill looks a disaster this year,rabbits are enjoying it all I see.
Alot plastic down around us,see nothing,a crop I never grew.so could be time enought.
Reseeded start march few feilds,rolled them today.now looks like a well kept lawn.slowest i ever seen.topped up again today with fertilizer.alot weeds now coming.but don't want to stall it even more the young grass by spraying.

Spray it with either MCPA if you are not worried about clover or else with Legumex or one of it generic forms may already be too late. you need to catch weeds at the seedling stage to control.

larthehar

bob charles wrote: »

Having a spring in my step this morning after being away for the last 10 days and everyone on here saying you's were have great weather on here, it wasnt long till I was more than a little peeved off. Growth in the last 10 days has being exceptionally poor for this time of the year. Im told that a good stiff breeze most of last week was the cause. Taking things serious I think Im looking at a 25% write down on crop predictions from about 3 weeks ago. So

Grass growth is poor (will we even grow 75% of normal)
Winter Wheat is okay to average,
Spring Wheat is poor to average, ditto spring barley
Beet is poor, plants are there, 3-4 weeks behind normal already
Maize under plastic is poor
only good local crops I saw was Rape and winter barley look okay.

ground is now capped off pretty badly and need soft rain to get things moving. Only crops that improved over the last week was what received foliar nitrogen 10 days ago.

Stop the lights... I have 10ac of spring barley set in a freshly drained field and it is breaking my heart and the bank! Leapt out of the ground after sowing but after the two leaf stage things have declined rapidly... rolled for leather jackets, sparyed for leather jackets. Nutrient spray and t1 gone on.. still a depressing crop.. about 4ac thriving and the rest burning up.. that field needs rain!! But the one beside ir doesn't

bob charles

larthehar wrote: »

that field needs rain!! But the one beside ir doesn't

sounds like a micro nutrient problem if next door is okay.

Conflats

larthehar wrote: »

Stop the lights... I have 10ac of spring barley set in a freshly drained field and it is breaking my heart and the bank! Leapt out of the ground after sowing but after the two leaf stage things have declined rapidly... rolled for leather jackets, sparyed for leather jackets. Nutrient spray and t1 gone on.. still a depressing crop.. about 4ac thriving and the rest burning up.. that field needs rain!! But the one beside ir doesn't

Is it a kind of yellowing in patches? seen a lot of it this year put manganese, copper and zinc on it.

Winter wheat was stripy until it was put on

larthehar

bob charles wrote: »

sounds like a micro nutrient problem if next door is okay.

The reason the one beside doesn't need rain is because I have 15ac of silage knocked in it!

larthehar

Conflats wrote: »

Is it a kind of yellowing in patches? seen a lot of it this year put manganese, copper and zinc on it.

Winter wheat was stripy until it was put on

Yea went with straight manganese and the multi nutrient... to be fair it is greening up but needs moisture badly to kick off.. and to think I couldn't walk this field without going to the arse in it last year!

Irishmale

most crops get manganese here regardless. but tracking from other years really showing up. Winter wheat not looking too bad. one field the crows got a good thinning at. spring wheat looking very good.spring barley so far behind its ridiculous. planted it late on purpose to give it a non stop chance but only starting to take off now. defo 6 weeks behind. disease pressure and weed pressure has been v low so far just no growth.