Monday, July 21, 2014

Vincent & Julien Bournaison, Livry-Louvercy, France

I 3rd Generation Farmers

Rainfall. 600mm

Farm Size 500 hectares

Crops: Potatoes 40 Ha  (yield 60t/ha) Winter wheat 200 ha. (Yield 10t/ha) Canola 70 ha )(yield 4.5t/ha) sugarbeet 100 ha (100t/ha)

Grain prices (€) wheat 130, canola 245, barley 120, sugarbeet 60

Carrots 60 Ha. Irrigated.  No limitation on ML pumped. bore 10 M in depth

Soil type : Chalk loam pH 7

Wheat seeding rate @160kg per hectare 

Canola seeding rate 4 - 5 kg per hectare.  Conventional canola grown Dekalb Exquisite 

Fertiliser application rates

200 kg /ha of N for wheat and canola

80 kg/ha of P20 of phosphorus 

150 kg/ha of K every third year

Cereal leaf diseases. Septoria. Mild winter and resistance poor control this season

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