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Twitter round-up: Spring drilling and wheat T0 race is on

Emma Gillbard 31 March 2021
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The recent spell of warm, dry weather has allowed many growers to get into full the swing of spring drilling and take on the first fungicide application timing in winter wheat

With crops going into good ground conditions and temperatures across much of England and Wales climbing to more than 20C, the race is on to get plants drilled before the weather takes a turn for the worse.

By the end of the week, the weather is expected to become significantly cooler and unsettled, with a chance of wintry conditions.

We take a look at the tweets from farmers and operators in full flow on the farm, and take a closer look at how wheat growers are coping with the loss of the actives epoxiconazole and chlorothalonil, which were the mainstay for last year’s T0 regimes.

See also: Farmer Focus: Juggling field progress with weather conditions

Spring drilling is all go

The Dyson Farming team are busy drilling Diablo spring barley in this photo, featuring this picturesque early morning sunrise.

For 21-year-old Harry Waudby, who works on the family farm in Stow, Lincolnshire, the last of the spring drilling is now complete. 

Meanwhile, in the south-east of England, farmer Rob Hodgkins is cracking on with drilling, hoping to get everything in the ground before the cold weather hits next week.

In north Norfolk, the Sentry farminng team have been using their new Tempo precision drill to plant Cantona sugar beet last week. Let’s hope virus yellows won’t be too much of an issue this year.

Winter wheat T0 applications

Tom Hawthorne shares this great video of the first T0 spray being applied to a crop of Gleam winter wheat at Flawborough Farms in Nottinghamshire.

Andrew Robinson, farm manager at Heathcote Farms and 2019 Farmers Weekly Farm Manager of the Year, is out in the beautiful Bedfordshire sunshine carrying out a T0 application on Siskin wheat.

In Essex, wheat crops are looking well and there is even some dust flying at Edward Ford’s farm, where he is out and about spraying.

Fifth-generation arable farmer and contractor, Angus, who farms at the Warwickshire Farming Partnership, Dunchurch, is enjoying his evening making the first T0 spray to a crop of Extase wheat.

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