Fields dried up well last week and there has been activitity applying spring P and K to cereals and oilseed rape. We have had yet more cold weather over the weekend culminating in temperatures dropping to -10C last night. Late-sown oats have suffered from frost lift, but it is too early to say what long [...]
A few cold and crisp days have enabled me to escape from the office or lecture theatre to walk the crops and assess how they are wintering. On the whole it is good news with little damage evident; however the winter oats tell another story! There is no doubt that once the snow cleared and [...]
It’s remarkable that crops look as well as they do given the November and December weather. With January being a bit warmer than last year wheat crops, particularly the earlier drilled ones, have responded and greened up well. Forward crops here are at GS23-25 with the later drilled ones at GS21 plus. The small amount [...]
Three colder-than-average winters in a row, are we now seeing a pattern? I suppose the next question worth asking is will the recent run of drier-than-average springs be repeated again this year? Crops have generally come through the winter well. Oilseed rape crops that didn’t have a second phoma spray in with the Kerb (propyzamide) [...]