SilliamWhale
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Dig a hole first
Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery
- Thread starter strip-till-phil
- Start date
Dig a hole first
- Location
- Cornwall.
Watsons a well respected and well established Scottish seed company in trials back in 2009 found that "The hybrids particularly Swift and Pulsar had significant levels of lodging and bolting this could mean that the digestibility of these plots will fall away quickly." So a known problem I can only think that some of the newer breed material do have notably thinner stalks as opposed to Winfred/Greenland hybrid kales.
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Most of it. It was following a 15 year ley and I couldn't afford to burn it off long before planting because I was pretty desperate for grass and was worried about the amount of dead/dying material + it was getting late and dry. I've got a couple of acres at the end where I just went over twice with the ph the broadcast and ring rolled. There is definitely a lower volume of crop there but its leafier and has stayed standing so the I wouldn't be surprised if the DM utilized / ha was pretty similar to the ploughed area
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
H.Jackson
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- Location
- West Sussex
How long has the field been dd for results like that?
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
It's over 5 years since it was ploughed. 3 year IRG/red clover 2 year wheat. It will go back to IRG in the Autumn. Some of my kindest soil.
Do you find first wheat behind clover/ryegrass ley works ok? I'm worried about frit fly and general over-grassiness...planning to sow a broadleaf crop behind ley this year.
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
For too long I was focused on leatherjackets while frit fly were a bigger issue. I've only a limited arable area so it makes sense to stick to one crop. Going forwards only high fertility situations, intensively grazed leys, will not get Autumn N having seen good results on a couple of fields. We have seen a bit of volunteer IRG after the short term leys, but I think more timely herbicide application is enough to sort that.
dug
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- Location
- North Island, New Zealand
I'd backup second quote. Under notill kale, the pugging would likely be a lot less unless the winter was very wet.
We also notill spring crops into pugged conditions in NZ. Requires correct management but we have to do it a lot.
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Its a 4m Unidrill, just a very basic pre tandem disc drill. There is no rocker on the press wheels either.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Been out with drilling Mulika after beet this afternoon:
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
Wheres the Case?
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
It's got an internal leak past the seals on the steering ram which has made it pretty difficult to drive accurately as it wanders offline constantly. Waiting for a new ram to come in so I put the drill on the JD and the case went out with the rolls where it couldn't do much harm.
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
Ah fair enough
Niels
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- Location
- Netherlands/Suffolk
What pre-cultivations did you do beforehand Daniel?
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
That bit had the spoil from the cleaner loader spread back over it with a muckspreader, then levelled with a Kongskilde Delta.
green giant
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- Location
- Northumberland
Not the best video as it was dark, some spring beans going in the ground tonight with the DTS in Northumberland.