OSR this year ?

[Dbs32]

Which variety are you on there? It looks good.

I've been on Acacia (conv) for a few years now and it performs well.

Seem to planting it earlier and earlier though. Used to be bang on the 15th of August, now late July. Then a bit of N when I can see a crop.

It's DSV Duplo, it has been very good the last few years, high oil content too. And seed well priced. Only thing is it can get very tall and thick stemmed, which is good in a drought but takes some dying off and combining.

Thinking of trying Dolphin as it's shorter but then that doesn't have pod shatter resistance.

Last conventional was campus which did ok and a lot of Nikita before that which was fairly reliable.

Ours was a bit late in this year, between 20th and 30th August

 

[The Grain Geek]

what did your oil % end up last year? We had a 1.5t crop, which is a bit below average here, but it was 48% oil. I've never had it that high.

God knows how that happened...

 

[Dbs32]

what did your oil % end up last year? We had a 1.5t crop, which is a bit below average here, but it was 48% oil. I've never had it that high.

God knows how that happened...

Around 45, was better the year before but the yield was consistent. 48 is exceptional, best oils we got came from being late getting round to dessication

 

[The Grain Geek]

Around 45, was better the year before but the yield was consistent. 48 is exceptional, best oils we got came from being late getting round to dessication

yeah, agronomist got us to put podstick on 23rd of June, then desiccate a lot later. I thought he was bonkers, especially when we had heavy rain. But maybe it worked.

Or maybe that's where we lost half a tonne in yield

 

[JCfarmer]

yeah, agronomist got us to put podstick on 23rd of June, then desiccate a lot later. I thought he was bonkers, especially when we had heavy rain. But maybe it worked.

Or maybe that's where we lost half a tonne in yield

Your used to 2t acre of osr?

 

[The Grain Geek]

Your used to 2t acre of osr?

Before 23 harvest (not all sold yet) our 5 year average was 1.8. But that is pulled down by the dismal 2020.
We've been very lucky with flea beetle, god knows how, and I'm sure my day will come.

 

[Chae1]

We've averaged 2t/acre OSR so far. Only grown it 2 years though.

 

[Vader]

Intresting...
Is the drive to DD causing the flea beetle problem?
If all our stumbles were worked up, could maybe be less flea beetle.

How harvest cultivations can help beat flea beetle in OSR - Farmers Weekly

Shallow cultivations carried out shortly after the combine can help reduce adult flea beetle populations, but more work is needed to refine advice to

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[JeremyD]

Load of rubbish, it's pot luck. One thing I have noticed they don't like hedgerows or lower lying areas.

 

[Vader]

Load of rubbish, it's pot luck. One thing I have noticed they don't like hedgerows or lower lying areas.

Most our fields are have hedges. Lots of beetle

 

[Brisel]

Intresting...
Is the drive to DD causing the flea beetle problem?
If all our stumbles were worked up, could maybe be less flea beetle.

How harvest cultivations can help beat flea beetle in OSR - Farmers Weekly

Shallow cultivations carried out shortly after the combine can help reduce adult flea beetle populations, but more work is needed to refine advice to

www.fwi.co.uk

Osr stubble management advice used to be to leave the volunteers to chit before cultivating. The barley barons had their Quadtracs and tillage trains chasing the combines so perhaps the barons were right after all, if only accidentally?

With a straw rake I'd run through after 2-4 days to smash the stalks up and kill a few slugs. Evidently this wasn't deep enough.

This is an aside, but I used to run the northern NIAB trials farm site. We had to plough or Topdown the plot site because the trials drill couldn't handle trash with Suffolk coulters. We would subsoil DD the osr crop around the plot. Guess which bit of the field had to be repeatedly sprayed with insecticide? Where the cereal stubble remained, we didn't get as much flea beetle grazing. I had long conversations with Colin Peters about how best to handle it. Some varieties were grazed more heavily than others though not consistently enough to deduce any "resistance" to flea beetle. It was more down to vigour than anything else.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Need the shades on today

 

[SilliamWhale]

Intresting...
Is the drive to DD causing the flea beetle problem?
If all our stumbles were worked up, could maybe be less flea beetle.

How harvest cultivations can help beat flea beetle in OSR - Farmers Weekly

Shallow cultivations carried out shortly after the combine can help reduce adult flea beetle populations, but more work is needed to refine advice to

www.fwi.co.uk

Doubt it