The field was lifted 14 November, with an expected delivery date of 22 November. There was a lot of rain in the forecast for 15 November – ca. 40mm – which was to be followed by a small cold period of -2C for a few hours. The gut said cover the clamp. The rule-of-thumb guides…
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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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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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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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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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2023-05-31, sow +54 days, 424 degree-days_base3, 28.8 mm rainfall. DEVELOPMENT We’ve still not had much rain. There was a very handy 6 mm last Tuesday. Modal development stage is probably BBCH20, if that exists. Unfortunately an accurate canopy cover figure is not possible as the drone mission attempted on 24 May had to be aborted…
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2023-05-16. sow +39 days, 160 degree-days_base3, 19.4mm rainfall. NO RAIN The last rain we had was three weeks ago. There is some forecast for tonight, but it feels pretty uncertain given it will come from storm activity i.e very hit and miss: we got 5 mm in about 15 minutes in Malmö yesterday with a…
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2023-05-02. sow +25 days, 141 degree-days_base3, 19.4mm rainfall. DEVELOPMENT The modal stage of development is probably BBCH11 – first pair of leaves visible but not unfolded. The cold has slowed things down. My plant count came in at 226, 4.52 per meter, 94 167 plants/ ha. BUT… …now that it is very easy to see…
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2023-04-24. sow +17 days, 101 degree-days_base3, 19.0mm rainfall. WEEDS We have weeds. We also have moist soil and a little rain in the forecast. This means the products that require moisture (Centium, Tanaris, Goltix) will be proper effective. Also in the forecast is a fair bit of cloud and cooler weather. This means the products…
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