Why this is not the year to cut back on inputs

‘Everything is late into the ground, but we could still end up with a satisfactory year’. Photo: Roger Jones

PJ Phelan

This cropping year has been extremely difficult so far and everything is late, but we could still end up with a satisfactory year.

I will never forget advising a farmer in early May 1985 that it was too late to sow spring wheat and that he would be better off dumping the seed rather than sowing it.