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In this week’s Irish Farmers Journal Andy Doyle visited fields in east Cork including a crop of winter wheat.
“Winter wheat is remarkably clean for the time of year in this part of the country. The crops I walked into were good and dense, but patches in most fields were hit by the autumn wet, either directly as poor establishment or winter kill or as a result of slug damage.
Crops were past GS39 and the flag leaves were fully unfolded, with the ears swelling in the boot. Elsewhere in the county, ears are beginning to appear in early sown winter wheat.”
In the fields: rain would be useful for spring crops in east Cork.
Watch: spring crops in need of rain.
Watch: spring barley suffering.
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