What was the yield?
Peas
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How do you sow all them different plots, is there a specialized machine for the job
Lovely clean sample . A standing crop of peas is a joy to cut on a sunny day . There is a special place in the combine drivers hall of fame for those that cut flat peas in muggy conditions.
Barrowsider
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1.1 t/ac
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They look a treat, my man will b round and bale that haulm just so you don't need to bother with the nasty looking stuff, well even haul it away so you don't need to wear any thing out moving it,,,,,:cool1::cool1::cool1:
They look a treat, my man will b round and bale that haulm just so you don't need to bother with the nasty looking stuff, well even haul it away so you don't need to wear any thing out moving it,,,,,:cool1::cool1::cool1:
Barrowsider
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Your generosity knows no bounds. Unfortunately I have them baled now but I’ll let you take them away for free if you pay me for baling them. Bank holiday rates for the day that’s in it.
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Cheque in the post, no cancel that I'll be there with cash Thursday ,, if you'll meet me from the ferry,,,,
Donegal Bay
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Are these for human consumption or animal feed?
Always Thinking
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Bumper crop that, we finished at 0.9 :tdown:
Ugo Schtiglitz
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ditto. Didnt spray it at all bar a shot of combitop and weeds.
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Animal feed but depends how hungry a lad is!
Donegal Bay
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Always Thinking
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Same, just got herbicide and some foliar nutrition.
Barrowsider
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Applied ine light fungicide at flowering but I’m not sure if that made any difference. Poor return but it could be worse, they could be beans!!
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The pea trials are ripening in. A few pics...
Large blue pea, yellow pea, maple pea.
Large blue pea, yellow pea, maple pea.
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Cut my little pea trial today.
The gigantic patch comprising of 3.7 acres averaged just over 1.4tn/ac.
Not record breaking but better than I expected from a crop sown in the middle of May.
Received one fungicide.
I don’t know what the moisture content was yet but they were rock hard.
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Kingfisher or Campus would be the best bets for varieties with better standing power. I’d go with either of these, Kingfisher being a newer variety.
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I thought I’d grow pea plots again to see how they do.
Sown 30th March. It’ll be interesting to see if they yield a bit better this year.
Sown 30th March. It’ll be interesting to see if they yield a bit better this year.
Barrowsider
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Venture peas are up and away. Sown at 135 kg/ha which is a little thinner than I would like but there seems to be a good plant population. It'll be hit with a graminicide in 7-10 days to clean up any grass weeds.
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Les Petit Pois plots in Shanagarry are growing away nicely despite the harsh enough weather.
Barrowsider
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Peas are planted in land with a wild oat problem this year. Stratus Ultra applied last Monday looks to have rattled the young offenders. Doesn't seem to have done any harm to the crop either, which can be a concern if the waxy layer on the leaf is not fully developed.
Barrowsider
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Fungicide applied to peas this evening. We only give them one application as don't like driving through the second time. These probably should have been sprayed a few days ago as theyre taller than I'd like. Lots of biomass, whether it produces the pods remains to be see .
Barrowsider
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This is a why a lot of people don't like peas. Difficult to judge from the pictures but peas have taken a battering, are gone flat and there will be losses. Hope to get them in the next few days. Whenever I see peas dropping like this I cast my mind back to harvest 1997 (the famous August bank holiday) when we had 85 acres of steam rolled peas and a clapped out Senator 85. Suddenly things don't seen so bad.
