WestCorkBoy
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Haha its only a small island and my username narrows it down. What would have brought you around here..... I'll see if you have the right spot!That scenery looks familiar to me...
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Haha its only a small island and my username narrows it down. What would have brought you around here..... I'll see if you have the right spot!That scenery looks familiar to me...
What is the supposed advantage of ridges?setting in ridges , I have seen myself if we get a drying wind, the whole top of the rigde turns to powder, more ground for weeds and harder to get the feckers. Also have to plough for the next crop, easy know im a lazy fecker
Do they have a fast way of cleaning the boxes after each plot?Planted the fodder beet trials this morning. Great conditions and a nice bit of moisture in the ground.
Surrounding crop is Enermax.
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Do they have a fast way of cleaning the boxes after each plot?
What is the supposed advantage of ridges?
I was thinking you hardly used a folded spoon! What size are the plots? Are they replicated around the site or just in one block? There is no point to my questions just curious!We just use a little Hoover to suck out remaining seeds and give it a few turns.
Had the 20 varieties sown in just over 2hrs.
Not replicated. 6 drills wide x 70m long.I was thinking you hardly used a folded spoon! What size are the plots? Are they replicated around the site or just in one block? There is no point to my questions just curious!
I knew I was doing something wrong! As @Ozzyscott said there is a trade off with moisture retention, We always said Wheat should be in for Paddy's Day, barley from then to on and beet after 1st of April, (In an Ideal World) as a young boy I remember struggling through beet pulling starters/bolters and asking my Dad what caused them, he explained you got more of it with early sowing because the plant was stressed early on in life, I always resented early sowing after that .... until it was my own beet, happy out with it now as long as job is done and I can stop watching the weather.Better for earlier sowing - ridge warms up quicker.
In heavier soils it’s less susceptible to waterlogging.
I’ve seen trials where maize planted in ridges performs better due to the temperature effect.
In the sugar beet days, the best growers around here started sowing on Patrick’s day.
I knew I was doing something wrong! As @Ozzyscott said there is a trade off with moisture retention, We always said Wheat should be in for Paddy's Day, barley from then to on and beet after 1st of April, (In an Ideal World) as a young boy I remember struggling through beet pulling starters/bolters and asking my Dad what caused them, he explained you got more of it with early sowing because the plant was stressed early on in life, I always resented early sowing after that .... until it was my own beet, happy out with it now as long as job is done and I can stop watching the weather.
On another topic with the loss in chemichals to control pests, later sowing may become a necessity/beneficial to give the crop a better chance of growing away from pest attack, is there any research showing any effect on yield from May sowing??
nothing remotely scientific about it but yielded same as year beforei ordered "tarine" again
seems to work good here
sowed 20th may
lifted 20th october @ 30t/a
last of it used 20th march
Given the weather you'd have to be happy with that, I had beet in fresh ground (3 yrs from grass) and in ground thats tilling 25 yrs (at least) there was 7-8T /ac of a difference, extra organic matter made a huge difference in retaining enough moisture to keep beet moving. Was your ground long out of grass?nothing remotely scientific about it but yielded same as year before
Think it was just traditionally done that way over here since the 1930s when the factories started.What is the supposed advantage of ridges?
I knew I was doing something wrong! As @Ozzyscott said there is a trade off with moisture retention, We always said Wheat should be in for Paddy's Day, barley from then to on and beet after 1st of April, (In an Ideal World) as a young boy I remember struggling through beet pulling starters/bolters and asking my Dad what caused them, he explained you got more of it with early sowing because the plant was stressed early on in life, I always resented early sowing after that .... until it was my own beet, happy out with it now as long as job is done and I can stop watching the weather.
On another topic with the loss in chemichals to control pests, later sowing may become a necessity/beneficial to give the crop a better chance of growing away from pest attack, is there any research showing any effect on yield from May sowing??
50+year grass, 2 years spring barley before beetGiven the weather you'd have to be happy with that, I had beet in fresh ground (3 yrs from grass) and in ground thats tilling 25 yrs (at least) there was 7-8T /ac of a difference, extra organic matter made a huge difference in retaining enough moisture to keep beet moving. Was your ground long out of grass?
closed rows by the longest day?I do remember seeing yield trials (for sugar beet) for sowing date in college. It showed how getting full ground cover by a certain date had a huge effect on yield - May sowing wasn’t the way to go.
Maximum leaf cover for the end of June. When the crop starts to meet between the rows you have only about half the ground covered with the leaves. Beet is usually growing very fast at that stage so a crop that is meeting between the rows for longest day of the year should be at maximum leaf cover for the end of June.closed rows by the longest day?
then some fecker told me, with new varieties the rows should be touching the 1st of June.Maximum leaf cover for the end of June. When the crop starts to meet between the rows you have only about half the ground covered with the leaves. Beet is usually growing very fast at that stage so a crop that is meeting between the rows for longest day of the year should be at maximum leaf cover for the end of June.
Guidance system working well!
I'm only powerharrowing that ground but I think it's Cagnotte
I'll be sowing my own tomorrow which will be Alisha and Geronimo
Hmmm,half hour after I posted this the dealers van turned up and started assembling the spreader....Due to unforeseen circumstances with the shit spreader my beet ground wont be getting dung
How many units of p and k will a decent crop need?
Fields are index 2 for p and k
I'll have to get some 14/14/21 instead of muck