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The Agronomist's year in Pictures
This years Cropping Season in pictures. Click and scroll to see more
Oil Seed Rape.
The early volunteer control looks good and nothing much in the way of Cabbage Stem Flea beetle damage.
Lucerne.
Wind-rowing the final cut on the lucerne.
Wet and Dry.
Autumn weathering of clay soils results in natural shrinkage as water evaporates causing clay particles to be pulled closer together causing shrinkage. If drying happens too quickly or unevenly, some parts dry and shrink while others remain wet and flexible, creating internal stress and tension that results in cracks.
Blue and Yellow.
"I need ammunition, not a ride."
What a heap!
Ensuring harvested oilseed rape is at the correct temperature and moisture for storage and delivery to crushers to avoid additional costs or rejections.
Six Row Barley.
Definitely a higher average yield but getting it in the combine with a range of 4 to 26%* brackling is a different matter. (Excludes the pigeons!)
* - AHDB 25/26 rec list.
* - AHDB 25/26 rec list.
Uninhabited.
Harvest of this field of barley now complete the combine sits once again waiting.
Down the Row.
Touching down the row but when to begin blight sprays?
Fodder Beet
A good year for fodder beet? Aphids are easy to find but how many are carrying virus?
A tent on a stick.
A pheromone trap in a crop of peas for moths.
A valuable find in the nettles.
Nothing grows particularly well without adequate moisture.
Hairy.
Similar but not the same, Mouse ear and Field Forget me knot. But which is which!
Spring Wheat emergence.
An even establishment of spring wheat plants even in this dry spring weather.
Down to Earth.
The plough has worked wonders for establishment so far this cropping season.
Winter Oil Seed Rape +/- Black grass.
Winter oil seed rape growing in a clay soil with a dense population of blackgrass, now pretty dead!
The earlier you drill winter wheat.
The more problems you can encounter with pest attack. In this case Gout fly.
Towering above.
Not something I encounter every day. I just parked up to hop over the hedge.
Sunshine.
A day of sunshine and everything looks better. This block of wheat shows very positive attributes coming out of the winter months.
No escape.
The "maybe" control of broad leaved weeds pre Christmas has turned out to be kill especially on difficult weeds such as these Cranesbill.
Winter Oil Seed Rape, January 2025.
Traditionally planted conventional oil seed rape varieties look well.
Winter wheat plant populations.
One of many fields of autumn sown winter wheat on this farm with a good plant population going into the winter.
Oil Seed Rape Weed control.
Applied herbicide appears to be negatively
impacting a variety of weed species.
impacting a variety of weed species.
A nice crop
.. of blackgrass now growing in an uncultivated stubble.
Winter wheat seedbeds.
Several fields have now worked down nicely for winter wheat and have been treated with a pre emergence herbicide.
Grey Day.
It might have been a grey day but some of the winter wheat seedbeds are really quite good.
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