Jul 15, 2026 · 35 min · 11 segments
Welcome back to the Rural Round-up. On today’s episode George Chalmers and Tiffany Stephenson discuss opportunities for those looking to enter Agriculture, though apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship…
George ChalmersHost
Tiffany StephensonHost
Winter royal seed rape is a bit away from being swathed or desiccated, but it's getting there.
Spring barleys, they just seem to keep growing, which is maybe not such a good thing.
A few weeks ago, there was growth regulator going on, and I know I'm now certainly wishing that I'd maybe put on more growth regulator, to be quite honest with you.
Yeah, there's definitely been plenty of spray lines gone out around here as well.
And if you just keep missing the rain, some people are beginning to cry out for it and just worrying about how much grass they're going to have.
I think it just depends exactly where your farm is and if you've had it or if you've not.
Well, it's quite strange you're saying that because up here, it's amazing on Facebook the amount of people who are taking their cuts of silage and they're wondering what they're going to do with all these bales.
Really? They say everything evens itself out over the course of a year, but it's a complete contrast from last year when the first cut was...
um that wasn't much they had to be quite honest with you and folk were relying on their second cut but this year the first cut has been absolutely phenomenal um a lot of cases they couldn't get at it um because of the weather a while in june but that that delayed cutting a wee bitty it bulked up that bit more bit of warmth bit of sunshine bit of moisture of course it really just kept growing uh and filling out so so folk have got bumper bumper silage yields um Which is good.
It's good going into the winter and it means they maybe don't, they can cut back a bit on the second cut.
Winter royal seed rape is a bit away from being swathed or desiccated, but it's getting there.
Spring barleys, they just seem to keep growing, which is maybe not such a good thing.
A few weeks ago, there was growth regulator going on, and I know I'm now certainly wishing that I'd maybe put on more growth regulator, to be quite honest with you.
Yeah, there's definitely been plenty of spray lines gone out around here as well.
And if you just keep missing the rain, some people are beginning to cry out for it and just worrying about how much grass they're going to have.
I think it just depends exactly where your farm is and if you've had it or if you've not.
Well, it's quite strange you're saying that because up here, it's amazing on Facebook the amount of people who are taking their cuts of silage and they're wondering what they're going to do with all these bales.
Really? They say everything evens itself out over the course of a year, but it's a complete contrast from last year when the first cut was...
um that wasn't much they had to be quite honest with you and folk were relying on their second cut but this year the first cut has been absolutely phenomenal um a lot of cases they couldn't get at it um because of the weather a while in june but that that delayed cutting a wee bitty it bulked up that bit more bit of warmth bit of sunshine bit of moisture of course it really just kept growing uh and filling out so so folk have got bumper bumper silage yields um Which is good.
It's good going into the winter and it means they maybe don't, they can cut back a bit on the second cut.
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