We have pleasure in presenting our seed booklet for the 2017spring season. After a very successful autumn drilling campaign, most crops look full of potential and, for once, we appear to have had the best of the weather conditions in the western region.
Dry conditions in October and early November allowed for late harvested crops to be taken without damaging soil structures and, in many cases, the opportunity to sow wheat was too good to resist. This will inevitably impact on the area of spring cropping to some degree but most pundits still predict a larger than average area is still to be sown and seed supplies look likely to be an issue.
At the time of writing we have already sold out of several important varieties of spring seed and replacement stocks are simply not available. The main reasons for an increase in spring sowings are covered in more detail in the ‘Swing to Spring’ article on page 4 but an additional factor this year could yet be an export demand for spring seed.
