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Regional Crop Report East Midlands, 18 May 2007

Winter Wheat

Comment on current growth stages	Field conditions
Forward crops have ears emerging with many in boot to boot splitting. Late drilled crops have flag leaf out.	Continued wet days either as heavy showers or wet nights has meant that crops are wet but soils are OK from a travel point of view. Dry afternoon allowed some spraying on Monday. Some late N gone on this week - am doing tissue analysis on bread wheats to ascertain N uptake - crops appear to have taken a lot of N up recently by the way they have greened up to a dark green.

Main diseases Present	Level and comment
Brown Rust	Not a problem so far.
Mildew	Levels very low.
Septoria tritici	Most crops clean down to leaf 4 but with continued wet weather T1 sprays now running out of steam.
Yellow Rust	Now present on Robigus where 3 weeks + after T1
Eyespot	Very little seen.
Other
Main Pest problems	Level and comment
Aphids	None seen
Frit fly	None seen
Leatherjacket	None seen
Opomyza	None seen
Slugs	Slugs grazing top leaves but not damaging. A lot of slime trails about in spite of the dry.
Wheat bulb fly	None seen
Wireworm	None seen
Other
Main weed problems	Level and comment
Blackgrass	No further treatment.
Meadow grasses	No further treatment.
Rye grass	No further treatment.
Bromes	No further treatment.
Cleavers	Some regrowth from cleavers stunted by spring applied Atlantis - not moving up crops yet but some will need control.
Others

Regional Crop Report East Midlands, 18 May 2007

Winter Barley

Comment on current growth stages	Field conditions
All crops now have ears fully emerged - flowering starting on some and no more action to be taken unless something abnormal such as high aphid build up. Awn sprays keeping crops clean of all diseases.	Continued wet days either as heavy showers or wet nights has meant that crops are wet but soils are OK from a travel point of view.

Main diseases Present	Level and comment
Brown Rust	None seen
Mildew	No new pustules.
Net blotch	New growth remains clean
Yellow Rust	None seen
Eyespot	None seen
Rhynchosporium	Veery low levels.
Other	BYDV patches starting to appear in early sown crops that had only one autumn aphicide.
Main Pest problems	Level and comment
Aphids	None seen
Leatherjacket	None seen
Slugs	None seen
Wireworm	None seen
Other	None seen
Main weed problems	Level and comment
Blackgrass	No further treatment.
Meadow grasses	No further treatment.
Rye grass	No further treatment.
Bromes	No further treatment.
Cleavers	No further treatment.
Others

Regional Crop Report East Midlands, 18 May 2007

Winter Oilseed Rape

Comment on current growth stages	Field conditions
Most crops green almost all over with just odd late flowering plants. Pods developing well and rain come in time to keep them going - harvest end June/early July on the cards.	Continued wet days either as heavy showers or wet nights has meant that crops are wet but soils are OK from a travel point of view.

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