Harvest: 2023-11-14. Published: 2023-11-27. Updated 2023-12-21. A big thanks to the team from Björnstorp & Svenstorp who fought traffic and mud to harvest the crop in what is also a crazy busy time for them. It was approximately 6.5 hours of harvest, at 1.05 ha/hour. Timing As seems to always be the case, there were…
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At first glance, by comparing the blockMeshDict files from the OpenFOAM.org User Guide, the blockMesh utility may have seen some changes. For the “Stress analysis of a plate with a hole” example, the mergePatchPairs command has disappeared from the dictionary. For the “Breaking of a dam” example, defaultPatch command has appeared. However, looking at the…
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2023-09-03 Probably not the last time I’ll say that (- you learn from your mistakes – ) in the context of Ädelholm, but definitely the first time I’ve heard my daughter say it. Wise beyond her 7 years. The specific mistake was that one of the bolters I had pulled earlier in the season seemed…
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By my calculations, 2023 is a “normal” to “safer than normal” year with resepect to bolting risk. This, coupled with the general late sowing, means there shouldn’t be any general issues with bolting in 2023. Ädelholm had a sowing date of 7 April. Taking the station nearest – Alnarp – the approximate vernalisation hours are…
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2023-08-08, sow +122 days, 1404 degree-days_base3, 267.4 mm rainfall. RAIN 78 mm in the last two days. I’m guessing that there is no soil moisture deficit anymore. WEEDS Found this nasty thing, thanks to a post on NBRs Facebook. Velvet leaf (Lindmalva) is something there is concern about in the industry, and thus the NBR…
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2023-07-15, sow +99 days, 1056 degree-days_base3, 107.3 mm rainfall. RAIN We’ve had a good bit now; ca 70mm in the last 20 days. It has included a few heavy downpours, so there are signs of water running across the field, but nothing that will have flown off the farm. DEVELOPMENT It is a little underwhelming.…
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Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) levels are not great at Ädelholm. So, extra will be applied. Given the law around the application of fertiliser to cover crops (not allowed), and the law around the application of fertiliser to spring crops (not before 1 March), it should be applied with the Probeta just prior to sowing.…
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A decision has finally been made: barley, with hairy vetch sown to some test areas. The vetch might be changed out for crimson clover, if the seed is not available. Seed is sourced from SvenskaFoder. Barley will be sown to ca. 70 kg/ha, and the legume to ca. 30 kg/ha (max permissible = 30% by…
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2023-06-27, sow +81 days, 806 degree-days_base3, 42.4 mm rainfall. DEVELOPMENT Canopy cover was measured from a drone flight yesterday (26th June) morning (ca. 7.30 am) as 84%. The BBRO BeetGRO model puts canopy cover at 95% from 950 degree-days and forward. So, maybe we’re not tracking that badly. The drone batteries had “leaked” a lot…
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MODEL-it The symposium was the 8th International Symposium on Applications of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Horticultural Supply Chain. The name says the most of it. The website says the rest of it. The focus is post-harvest and food processing, but it seems to be mainly post-harvest. HIGHLIGHTS OF MODEL-it 2023 Presentations and…
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