What rate Proline did you use if you don’t mind me asking? Thanks
How is OSR looking in general folks?
Reading the Farmers Weekly over the past few weeks and it looks like it is a crop which could be in serious decline over there.
Without wanting to put the kiss of death on crops, I think that WOSR looks to have great potential this year.
The price is also relatively strong compared to cereals.
It’s not in the trailer yet though!
Thankfully, we don’t have the issue of resistant flea beetle in this country.
A huge area of the new sown crop in Europe suffered the summer/autumn drought and a large area was never even sown.
I’m just trying to decide whether or not to give our crop a second flowering fungicide.
Much lodging down your way? Good few crops got a fair tossing round here last weekend especially anything with organic manure under it. From experience lodged rape near harvest is a disaster but maybe ok at this time of year?
Yeah I’d say your talking .....Yes, definitely some leaning here after the 3” of rain a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t happy to see it.
It seems to be effecting 95% of varieties in my plots.
It reminds of what happened in 2012 with some varieties - the root leaned over in the saturated soil.
I looked at ours after storm Hannah and it hadn’t got any worse (some plants were leaning before it). There was virtually no rain with Hannah so the soil stayed solid.
I was thinking about the process. My thoughts run as follows. When rain falls on a OSR canopy, the water runs down the branches to the main stem. It then runs down and is all focused where the root is - therefore saturating the root zone compared to the area between plants - this exaggerates the rainfall effect.
Hybrids may suffer more from this soil saturation effect as the stem numbers are less (the rainfall is concentrated on fewer stems) and the plants are bigger (more weight in the plant to make it lean)
All nothing other than my own thoughts so could be complete and utter rubbish!!
Hopefully we won’t have lodging come harvest. Crops aren’t overly tall from what I’ve seen.
Or else it was sown too early, too much fert or organic N on the autumn, N too early in the spring and not enough PGR’s.....Yeah I’d say your talking .....
At least it’s YellaOr else it was sown too early, too much fert or organic N on the autumn, N too early in the spring and not enough PGR’s.....
It’s all about the yallaAt least it’s Yella
Looks a good crop. Plenty of pods. Thought there might be a cruise liner in the background of the 3rd photo.I’ll probably jinx it but WOSR looks good this year.
This is Expansion. Long rotation here (1 in 7 approx) with beans as the intermediate break crop. The trials site is 1 in 4 and disease levels (light leaf spot) are much much higher. The stems in the expansion are noticeably cleaner.
Pod fill and seed size looks good and it’s standing really well.
Time will tell.
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Elgar podding up
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Did you spray insecticideI have a share of the red leaf like that in the bottom of your pic in the trial plots.
I’ve a suspicion that it’s Turnip Yellows Virus. Planning to get a sample sent off for testing this week.
I have a few varieties that are supposed to be resistant to it so it’ll be an interesting comparison.
Did you spray insecticide
No, mild January hardly helpedNo, used to but don’t bother anymore. Did you?
Great snow in the alps in January thoNo, mild January hardly helped
May have taken my eye off ballGreat snow in the alps in January tho
Anybody spray off the Rape yet?