Agronomist in Worcestershire,Warwickshire,Shropshire A specialist interest in crop nutrition and precision farming integration.
England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2016
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Flea beetles late to arrive at the party this year.
Small amount of damage yesterday to large amounts of damage overnight.Early drilled away from the damage but end of august drilled seeing the issue
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Oilseed rape 2022 so far so good flea beetles not so bad at minute but slugs that’s a different story! This crop planted on 24th July
AB15 sown Legume fallow looking a picture this morning.
Placed on very erosion prone steep land that Gully’s hopefully this will improve soil structure and nutrients over the next two years.Followed by more organic matter at the end of the fallow period.
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Spring oilseed rape may have survived the flea beetles but now the pollen beetles are giving it some serious grief.
Don’t tell me they are doing no harm because in spring oilseed rape there is no chance for much secondary growth to help with aborted flowering sites.
Beetles win!
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Out testing for Nitrogen and finding lots of Aphids on Winter wheat enjoying the temperatures.It’s been a while since we had a real issue so will see how this develops over the coming days.
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Wheat trial plots at Bromsgrove looking great today.The untreated starting to show some nice yellow rust.
Skyfall,Dunston,Gleam and kinetic being the bad ones at the moment.
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Conservation headland.poppies just getting going.
Sent this photo to my wife and she replied “‘what a great office On a beautiful morning especially when you help to create it.”Never really thought of it in those terms before normally stressing about weed or disease control.
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N testing zyatt milling wheat for final liquid fert on the ear.
Takes some of the guess work and debate out of the job
30 leaf samples in each field to get a recommendation
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Spring beans Downy mildew some of the highest levels of this disease for a number of years. Favoured by cool wet conditions. – at West Midlands, England
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Echium deciding it now quite likes the warm weather. Slugs have been an issue this season on the crop not quite fast enough away with the May deluge. – at West Midlands, England
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How you get a spray miss here only the operator knows. Great brome and cleavers. Less time texting more time watching🤣 – at West Midlands, England
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Spring oilseed rape anyone!
I have seen seed company literature that says flea beetles don’t bother Spring oilseed rape🤣.Doesn’t bode well for those tempted to have another go this Autumn tempted by high prices. – at West Midlands, England
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Spring oilseed rape we rolled the 🎲 dice there might be something in this. Very late planted last two days of April ready for May bank holiday moisture and hasn’t stopped raining since.
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Explorer spring barley Claydon planted after spring beans to get on top of Blackgrass.Doing what Explorer does aggressive on clay soils. Will be turned into Budweiser if we get the grain n correct out leaf sampling today – at West Midlands, England
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Another field of wheat heading for the digester no pre em or avadex applied due to severe wet weather after drilling and highly resistant blackgrass.
The lesson learnt is if you can drill you can spray. Avadex mounted on drill and sprayer will be in the field following the drill.
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LG spotlight oh dear! Full fungicide programme the best of what remains available which is the worry.There is going to be some massive change in wheat Variety selection after this season – at West Midlands, England
Time to bring out the MCPB on peas might need a hovercraft to get it applied mind 71 mm rain and counting – at West Midlands, England
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