South: Holding the wheat drilling nerve
With the last of the spring crops finally away and all our winter oilseed rape in the ground – albeit most not until this month - the challenge of the moment is to hold our nerve on wheat drilling....
View ArticleWest: What dry seed-beds?
I’ve heard comments about dry seedbeds in the past few days. If this week’s weather forecast is anything like accurate, that will no longer be a concern.Some oilseed rape is showing patchy germination...
View ArticleSouth: Multiple slug pellet applications required
We have finally had a sustained dry period which has at least allowed most people to finish harvest. I am not going to dwell on results, but suffice to say with months of waterlogged soils, an absence...
View ArticleEast: Rain brings increased phoma risk
The last two seasons have provided us with the two extremes in weather; surely next season can’t be any worse and somewhere in the middle would be just right for next season. Yield and quality has been...
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South: Hoping for an “open” autumn
With moisture now returned to top layers of soils, oilseed rape is continuing to establish. Most crops now have at least one or two true leaves, some more and some just emerging. Hopefully the autumn...
View ArticleEast: A green haze heralds the start of a new season
What a difference a rain can make! At the beginning of September, concern was mounting as dry soils made seed beds difficult and often expensive to achieve. This leading to many to sitting tight until...
View ArticleEast: Herbicide decisions to be made
As I have predicted since July, the perfect storm has happened as far as slugs are concerned. A wet summer followed by a wet autumn, poor seed-beds and slow emerging crops are making for a challenging...
View ArticleWest: Don’t abandon hope!
Slightly drier weather over the past week has allowed some drilling to take place on lighter soils, but a day of rain midweek ensured that the heavier ground stayed saturated and impossible to...
View ArticleEast: Slugs still enemy number one
I’m reluctant to grumble too much when fellow Crop Watch contributors from elsewhere report on such dire circumstances. However, I think this strap line from last week’s Crop Watch just about sums up...
View ArticleNorth: No let up in the “Battle of 2012″
Any thoughts that we might get a final weather window to see 2012 out in style appear to be like many soils – washing into watercourses the length and breadth of the country. As I write the rain is...
View ArticleSouth: Holding the wheat drilling nerve
With the last of the spring crops finally away and all our winter oilseed rape in the ground – albeit most not until this month - the challenge of the moment is to hold our nerve on wheat drilling....
View ArticleWest: What dry seed-beds?
I’ve heard comments about dry seedbeds in the past few days. If this week’s weather forecast is anything like accurate, that will no longer be a concern.Some oilseed rape is showing patchy germination...
View ArticleSouth: Multiple slug pellet applications required
We have finally had a sustained dry period which has at least allowed most people to finish harvest. I am not going to dwell on results, but suffice to say with months of waterlogged soils, an absence...
View ArticleEast: Rain brings increased phoma risk
The last two seasons have provided us with the two extremes in weather; surely next season can’t be any worse and somewhere in the middle would be just right for next season. Yield and quality has been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South: Hoping for an “open” autumn
With moisture now returned to top layers of soils, oilseed rape is continuing to establish. Most crops now have at least one or two true leaves, some more and some just emerging. Hopefully the autumn...
View ArticleEast: A green haze heralds the start of a new season
What a difference a rain can make! At the beginning of September, concern was mounting as dry soils made seed beds difficult and often expensive to achieve. This leading to many to sitting tight until...
View ArticleEast: Herbicide decisions to be made
As I have predicted since July, the perfect storm has happened as far as slugs are concerned. A wet summer followed by a wet autumn, poor seed-beds and slow emerging crops are making for a challenging...
View ArticleWest: Don’t abandon hope!
Slightly drier weather over the past week has allowed some drilling to take place on lighter soils, but a day of rain midweek ensured that the heavier ground stayed saturated and impossible to...
View ArticleEast: Slugs still enemy number one
I’m reluctant to grumble too much when fellow Crop Watch contributors from elsewhere report on such dire circumstances. However, I think this strap line from last week’s Crop Watch just about sums up...
View ArticleNorth: No let up in the “Battle of 2012″
Any thoughts that we might get a final weather window to see 2012 out in style appear to be like many soils – washing into watercourses the length and breadth of the country. As I write the rain is...
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