An inspection

Monday 12th July we had a visit from 3 esteemed gentlemen .From left to right , Roger, Neil and Nick.
Neil has put together the programme that we have followed this year , Roger is our regular agronomist and has along with Neil put up with numerous questions from myself.Some intelligent some perhaps not so , and Nick was along to have alook.
We came to several conclusions, these being
1 The wheat is remarkbly clean disease wise.
2It looks promising yield wise but we could have pushed it alittle bit harder with N as the trefoil and the |Twin N may have not worked so well .
3 The weeds wont` affect yield and if we have a major black grass problem in the future , this could help.

We discussed next years option and the plan at the moment is to try to establish a cover crop of oats and red clover this autumn , spray out the oats come spring and direct seed the wheat with some DAP .
We will then make a decision with regards to N . But i think we will give it some more.

Photos

Final application

Ok we have put the final application on, it consisted of 1.5 l/ha of sulphur and 2l/ha of the wonderfully titled kick-AZZ which is water soluble magnesiun fertilizer applied to maximise plant nutrient health and disease resistance it contains Phosphate 30% Potassium 8% magnesium 5% manganese 0.28% Zinc 0.28% and also another 30 lha of UAN giving approx 9kg/ha of N.
As you can see from the photos we have a fair crop , very clean disease wise ,big bold flag leaves sucking up all that energy , weeds are an issue and the trefoil does not seem to want to grow.we will do an ear count soon and this will give us some idea of potential yield and tillering etc.