Farmers Weekly has teamed up with CropMonitor to bring the latest disease risk predictions across England and Wales At the Live Monitoring sites, crop growth stages varied from GS30 to GS33. Some more advanced crops have been reported on farm, but many are still very backward for the middle of May, with progress slow and [...]
Since last writing the weather has improved although at times it has still been abnormally cold for the time of year. We have had enough rain and there has been sunshine as well. With rape crops in flower, the patchiness of many crops is now more evident than ever. Patches of pigeon and rabbit damaged [...]
As predicted the flag leaf in winter wheat crops is going to emerge within a few days of a “normal” season. This is already happening with the early varieties such as Gallant. T1 timings were generally delayed because of the poor weather so the gap between applications is going to less than usual. Rainfall events [...]
Considering the last two months have mostly been extremely dry, the number of good spray days have been few and far between due to constant strong winds. These persistent winds have caused serious delays, but most have now caught up by making good use of the few recent spray windows available. Disease pressure has been [...]
Well the dry weather gave way to rain, the warm weather went back cold again and everything slowed up dramatically. Now the sun’s out again, the rain’s gone away for a while and I expect everything will take advantage of this and race on to catch up. Earlier this week I looked at a crop [...]
This time last year clients in Cheshire were harvesting their first earlies, not a chance this year with crops at least three to four weeks behind, down to cool temperatures and lack of warm sunshine. In general, crops seem to be taking up to six weeks to emerge, even recent rainfall has not been particularly [...]
Farmers Weekly has teamed up with CropMonitor to bring the latest disease risk predictions across England and Wales. At the Live Monitoring sites, crop growth stages varied from GS30 to GS32, mirroring the range reported on farm. At some sites development has accelerated in response to the warmer temperatures, but overall progress has remained relatively [...]
I think we are in a better place than a month ago! Most spring sowing was completed three weeks ago, some of this was replacing yet more deceased winter oilseed rape crops that refused to grow. Most forward spring barley crops have just about reached the end of tillering, but most crops are at early [...]
Crops remain variable, it is important to check actual growth stage as some crops are further developed than their growth suggests. Most winter wheat crops (except the very backward) have received the T1 fungicide mix during the emergence of final leaf 3. Decisions regarding the timing of fungicides have been problematic but I have decided [...]
Come back Atlantic weather systems, all is forgiven. The late spring means that crops are universally behind by at least three weeks. Cheshire has fared slightly better, as usual, and Lancashire is a mixed bag including some very poor crops. If growers can break even this year, most will be grateful, we’re not expecting any [...]