Stem and ligule detail of wild oat

Mid Worm's eye view of an oilseed rape crop

Rt: Sugar beet struggling through capped soil

Left Plum blossom in the first days of April

Mid Corn marigold seedling on ploughed land in April

Rt: Sugar beet having survived the frosts starts to expand the first true leaves

Left Looking down the rows of a crop at GS30 interesting water droplets

Mid & Rt Unique view of a wheat crop at GS31, from ground level

Left Large wireworm caught in wireworm trap, soil only 6C

Mid Tillering blackgrass in winter wheat

Right Spring germinating cleaver in winter wheat

Left Wheat crops are starting to kove, this Glasgow is at GS 31

Mid Well grown crop of rape at green bud having had two doses of Metconazole this season

Right: Potatoes planted view down the ridges, weeds starting to appear

Left to right: Mad March weather ,dry and sunny at the start, the wind blew, rain fell and then it snowed

Left &  Wintry scene for the start of spring 2008

Rt Rape crop at green-yellow bud in the snow

Wheat crops in the snow at Easter 2008

Left Blackthorn blossom and snow

Mid Snow covered ELS footpath

Rt Snow covered fields Easter 2008

Left & Mid Wheat crops in the snow at Easter 2008

Mid Silver scurf on potato seed tuber

Rt Rape crop at green bud in the snow

Left Powdery scab on potato seed tuber

Mid Silver scurf on potato seed tuber

Rt Mildew on wheat lower leaves

Left Barley cover crop just emerged

Mid & Rt - Severe damage to winter wheat by soil erosion on sand soil

Left & Mid- Sugar beet about to emerge on 18th March

Right Barley cover crop just emerged

Left Recent heavy rains caused waterlogging on these fields of oilseed rape

Drainage ditches overflowing onto fields

Spring barley 18th March Norfolk

Left Forward crop of rape grown on fertile soil with big crop canopy

Mid Sugar beet being drilled

Right Sugar beet being drilled

The soil has remained cold since february but there is a flush of weeds emerging now.

Left Fumitory at expanded cotyledons

Mid Mayweed at 5 leaf stage

Right Clump of fat-hen emerging in mid march

Left Blackgrass at GS22 on ploughed land

Mid Winter beans in March

Right Fumitory at 5 leaf stage

Left Freshly drilled beet field

Mid Blackgrass well tillered in winter wheat

Right Blackgrass at GS21 on ploughed land

Left Applying T0 mix inc PGR to wheat

Nitrogen fertiliser applied to winter wheat

Right Sugar beet being drilled

Left Knotgrass now emerging

Mid Applying T0 mix inc PGR to wheat

Right Applying T0 mix inc PGR to wheat

Left Very clean crop at GS 30 mid march

Mid Wild oats emerging in mid march 2008

Right Hempnettle emerged in March

Left Early drilled crops have more disease on lower leaves, this is Early October drilled Istabraq

Mid Fools parsley emerging, having escaped IPU + Picopro

Right Nitrogen recently applied to winter barley

Left Late drilled crops are now at mid tillering and very clean so far, this was november drilled following potatoes

Mid & Rt Loose silky bent, this is often confused with blackgrass

Wheat crops are now from tillering to early stem extension, many are at GS 30, the T0 timing

The crop on the right was drilled earlier