Can any farmers explain what this is about?

[Shuvi McTupya]

Just driving passed some local fields and I noticed loads of gaps in the crop.
I was wondering why they might chop down selected bits. Are they trying to stop some kind of nastyness from spreading or something like that?

[Tasmin200]

I'm not a farmer but that looks like rain damage to me. Might be totally wrong though!

[snake_oil]

Crop 'circle'. Get a drone up.

[Steve Baker]

They are flat bits of crop usually pushed over by heavy rain and/or wind as a result of heavy ears on top of weak or diseased straw. Sometimes to much fertiliser can have a similar effect.

[The jiffle king]

It could be some weeds like thistles which the farmer does not want to contaminate their crop with. We have a field used for hay and had some thistles this year which meant they left a bit

[Cantaloupe]

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

[br d]

Cantaloupe said:

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

Croplife.

[Gooose]

What’s the deal with farmers having a big mound of old tires in one of their fields?

[ellroy]

Gooose said:

What’s the deal with farmers having a big mound of old tires in one of their fields?

Growing wets at this time of year, slicks have been harvested for t’season.

[Japveesix]

Cantaloupe said:

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

They be a reet nightmare round ere, always scrunching the filstems bare and nestupping in my traction-masher

[Mammasaid]

Gooose said:

What’s the deal with farmers having a big mound of old tires in one of their fields?

Silage pit

[thebraketester]

Or “clamp” as it’s often called I believe.

[Spare tyre]

br d said:

Cantaloupe said:

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

Croplife.

Crop droop caused by pigeons, they love a bit of it

[Chlorothalonil]

Looks like lodging.

[Shuvi McTupya]

ellroy said:

Gooose said:

What’s the deal with farmers having a big mound of old tires in one of their fields?

Growing wets at this time of year, slicks have been harvested for t’season.

[Brilad]

Cantaloupe said:

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

You are the ghost of Kenneth Williams and I claim my £5.

[Turn7]

br d said:

Cantaloupe said:

Looks like a bad case of scropeweevil, they attack the ganderparts of the shreeveworts and within days the
futtocks have ossified.

Croplife.

This wasnt given the recognition it deserved....have some of these Sir....

[AndyAudi]

Growing stuff is a bit of a balancing act, farmers put on fertiliser to feed crops, as you want the grain head full of grain, but if it’s too big a long stem may not support it in bad weather like wind or rain which makes it heavier. (Some farmers will spray a growth regulator on to crops to prevent stems getting too long & breaking, however the straw can also be valuable so they want to maximise that too!)

Once a crop goes it can be a domino effect to stems round about and also lets in crows etc who come & eat the young grain jumping on the standing grain & making the patches much bigger & potentially wasting big areas (one of the reasons farmers shoot crows).