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Greengrass1 wrote: »
That's one of the great ideas that 'they' have been working on for while along with a system to pour neat chem into a container which is then dispersed in clean water along the spray line to save on cleaning tank etc but can't get to work. Do something similar when they use a 'N Sensor' for putting out N fert as variable rate on crops. Problem is as you see that sensor can only pick up larger plants so spray with round up while whole concept is get at seedling stage when easier to kill as need less dangerous to the crop chems to knock it on the head.
Another thing is that is working on green crop like over here need a sensor that can differenciate different plants/ different reflections of green i guess? A smarter thing that seems to be more the way is an ultra powerful camera using recognition software seems to be more the way forward as the tech in Nsensor/ idea of using machine above needs bright sunlight to work well
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Blackgrass wrote: »That's one of the great ideas that 'they' have been working on for while along with a system to pour neat chem into a container which is then dispersed in clean water along the spray line to save on cleaning tank etc but can't get to work. Do something similar when they use a 'N Sensor' for putting out N fert as variable rate on crops. Problem is as you see that sensor can only pick up larger plants so spray with round up while whole concept is get at seedling stage when easier to kill as need less dangerous to the crop chems to knock it on the head.
Another thing is that is working on green crop like over here need a sensor that can differenciate different plants/ different reflections of green i guess? A smarter thing that seems to be more the way is an ultra powerful camera using recognition software seems to be more the way forward as the tech in Nsensor/ idea of using machine above needs bright sunlight to work well.
+1. The tech has a bit to go yet...0 -
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So, here's a little early season crop farming work.
Ground has been very dry this Feb here mostly, drainage work must be paying dividends.. Been pulling down some maize ground for local contractor to use up hours on crawler as going back end of March as 1,000hr limit we're only at 500 so extra cash in the bank as write hire costs off vs tax
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Also readying some of our own land with Rexius leave no for 3 weeks then back to drilling.0 -
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Blackgrass wrote: »So, here's a little early season crop farming work.
Ground has been very dry this Feb here mostly, drainage work must be paying dividends.. Been pulling down some maize ground for local contractor to use up hours on crawler as going back end of March as 1,000hr limit we're only at 500 so extra cash in the bank as write hire costs off vs tax.
Also readying some of our own land with Rexius leave no for 3 weeks then back to drilling.
Jeez Blackgrass that's boys ground!
Will that need a squib of glyphosate before drilling?
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Crops that far forward with you?!
Procloraz mainly for Septoria/ little bit of eye spot would that be a big problem or more so until get into April when dry heat rolls in onwards.
I know you said had alot of rain and has been warm recently, with Sept any rain event over 8mm or i think 1mm hr also is enough to cause leaf splash-spred of disease as a guide
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It's getting ridiculous over here 'agronimists' and i use that term VEEERY loosely as i prefer to call them theiving parasites recommending 6 applications on programmes under full service contracts. Oooh but it's to stop the disease from spreading they say, no fook off. A strong t1/2 and see what flowering brings and in a very high year maybe a t1.5 not this T0,.5,1,1.5,2,3,4 **** is just rocketing us to end game some fools pushing more product to keep profits up need a very hard kick up the hole. Farmers are even worse for listening.
2012 showed alot of things, sometimes there's not much can do, don't worry til stem extension as right dry week can stop pressure in it's track.
Rant/ far to early to be up :mad:0 -
Blackgrass wrote: »Crops that far forward with you?!
Procloraz mainly for Septoria/ little bit of eye spot would that be a big problem or more so until get into April when dry heat rolls in onwards.
I know you said had alot of rain and has been warm recently, with Sept any rain event over 8mm or i think 1mm hr also is enough to cause leaf splash-spred of disease as a guide.
It's getting ridiculous over here 'agronimists' and i use that term VEEERY loosely as i prefer to call them theiving parasites recommending 6 applications on programmes under full service contracts. Oooh but it's to stop the disease from spreading they say, no fook off. A strong t1/2 and see what flowering brings and in a very high year maybe a t1.5 not this T0,.5,1,1.5,2,3,4 **** is just rocketing us to end game some fools pushing more product to keep profits up need a very hard kick up the hole. Farmers are even worse for listening.
2012 showed alot of things, sometimes there's not much can do, don't worry til stem extension as right dry week can stop pressure in it's track.
Rant/ far to early to be up :mad:
Yes wheat is at perfect time for CCC.
I'm a small bit concerned about night time temps because it drops to 1 or 2 degrees...but daytime temps are 16 to 18.
The procloraz is for eyespot...septoria not an issue as can easily control with older chemistry like epoxyiconazole/Chlorothanonil mix. Warm climate makes life sooo much easier with septoria.
Same issues here with "agronomists" recommending a minimum of 3 SDHI/azole/chloro mixes. Pure madness!
In the good old days I was able to control septo with Baleton CF and Mancozeb every 10/12 days....still works because an old neighbour reverted back to it in '12.
I know it's not practical nowadays but just goes to show...
While I can control septo with epoxy at €16/litre I will continue to do so...0 -
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freedominacup wrote: »I thought Kovu cleared all of this up last week. I think a bit is around two heaps which is several fcuk loads. I don't remember how many fcuk loads to the hectacre the seed rate is but I bet you someone has a link to a Teagasc pdf brochure/table. Once you have that you'll be able to work out how many acres it'll cover. Anyone know how many acres in a hectacre? Save Bullocks having to look it up.
Is it stones per acre or kg's per ha or lbs per sq yard or is it seeds per sq/mt. I think I'll stick with the cows, less confusing. They're giving fcuk loads of milk. 0 -
Brown Podzol wrote: »Is it stones per acre or kg's per ha or lbs per sq yard or is it seeds per sq/mt. I think I'll stick with the cows, less confusing. They're giving fcuk loads of milk.
Seeds sq/mt = target popukation0 -
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