scoffcruddle
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Very hard frost here this morning,wouldn’t effect maize still under ground but would fair hit it if up.
It’s in the bag.....Very hard frost here this morning,wouldn’t effect maize still under ground but would fair hit it if up.
Only while the owner was gone for a drill of Golden wonders nashYou are driving in style these days BB :woot::Thumbp2:
I’m not going to like that post, very sorry to hear this.I’ve got a fair bit of maize to plant yet but it’ll have to wait a while yet because we got 94mm last weekend. Seriously heavy thunderstorm rain fell in short sharp bursts flooding fields and houses. I’ve fields that’ll have to be planted again.
I wouldn’t be getting concerned just yet but it’d want to be getting planted all the same. There’s a truck coming this morning to exchange the seed I’ve in stock (fao index 340) for for fao index 280.
The rain has set back the sunflowers quite a bit with patches fecked where water lodged. Some maize that was at 5-6 leaves is now looking a yellowish white color so yield will take a wallop.
On the plus side wheat and barley needed the drink.
Yep, not a pretty sight. That’s the hand we’re dealt so it’s best to get on with it...I’m not going to like that post, very sorry to hear this.
I saw a farmer on twitter filming his fields in the Vendee region, it looked terrible- 100mm in 36hrs I think he said.
Christ I’m sorry to hear that J, you’ve been having bad luck.Spent the day pricking around with maize ground that’s after capping from the thunder rain last weekend.
Tried Cambridge roller, no good.
Tried a Herse Étrille (don’t know the English name), no good either.
Back now to plant the bloody lot again.
Jeez but we’re sick of planting now.
The seed bill is going to be eye watering.
The upside...last year Thiram was banned as a seed dressing, and the crows had a ball, but I discovered another product that’s closely related and isn’t banned until next year, called Aziram I think, so the seed treatment man is coming tomorrow morning to dress the seed. Lots of small bags to open but it’ll be worth it.
Spent the day pricking around with maize ground that’s after capping from the thunder rain last weekend.
Tried Cambridge roller, no good.
Tried a Herse Étrille (don’t know the English name), no good either.
Back now to plant the bloody lot again.
Jeez but we’re sick of planting now.
The seed bill is going to be eye watering.
The upside...last year Thiram was banned as a seed dressing, and the crows had a ball, but I discovered another product that’s closely related and isn’t banned until next year, called Aziram I think, so the seed treatment man is coming tomorrow morning to dress the seed. Lots of small bags to open but it’ll be worth it.
Does that happen often? Would planting into a cover crop stop the ground capping?Spent the day pricking around with maize ground that’s after capping from the thunder rain last weekend.
Tried Cambridge roller, no good.
Tried a Herse Étrille (don’t know the English name), no good either.
Back now to plant the bloody lot again.
Jeez but we’re sick of planting now.
The seed bill is going to be eye watering.
The upside...last year Thiram was banned as a seed dressing, and the crows had a ball, but I discovered another product that’s closely related and isn’t banned until next year, called Aziram I think, so the seed treatment man is coming tomorrow morning to dress the seed. Lots of small bags to open but it’ll be worth it.
It’s a full crop or nothing Ozzy because there’s weed competition issues if not a full crop. Weeds will starve maize of moisture.What's a balls, how thick is the cap, as that's quite hard to imagine. Will the disruption of replanting allow some of the seed already there the chance to get going?
Luck of the draw really. Nearly 5” of thunder rain in a day and a half. It doesn’t happen that often.Does that happen often? Would planting into a cover crop stop the ground capping?
That looks extremely thick Paw. How many grains/ha?Neighbour’s maize. Planted about 3 weeks ago. Very good, even take but looks to have caught the frost this last week. View attachment 78055
I don't know, I thought it looked thick as well. 30" rows and about 3" spacing at most, what ever that works out to.That looks extremely thick Paw. How many grains/ha?
Wow. I wouldn’t plant sorghum that thick.I don't know, I thought it looked thick as well. 30" rows and about 3" spacing at most, what ever that works out to.
Best crop of maize I ever grew was planted with the Moore drill at 6" spacing and mistakenly planted at 50k per acre, was looking average so splashplated slurry on it one very wet day :rolleyes2:, talk about doing everything wrongWow. I wouldn’t plant sorghum that thick.
What make of drill has done that? Looks a very even spacing. We're pretty much drilling all round here at 42000/acre now, one did say he was thinking of dropping to 40k or his seed supplier reckoned he could.Luck of the draw really. Nearly 5” of thunder rain in a day and a half. It doesn’t happen that often.
Pic is dryland maize. Clover disced and ploughed down. Planted 25days.
Measure 13.33m of one drill. That’s one thousand of a hectare.I don't know, I thought it looked thick as well. 30" rows and about 3" spacing at most, what ever that works out to.
Ah yea.Is 280 maize still okay to plan this late in France?
Kuhn.What make of drill has done that? Looks a very even spacing. We're pretty much drilling all round here at 42000/acre now, one did say he was thinking of dropping to 40k or his seed supplier reckoned he could.