Recent content by Two Tone

Having watched the entire series 3, I reckon it is the best so far. Less deliberate tomfoolery and some serious issues shown. The competition between Jeremy and Kaleb was a good one. However, had Kaleb’s Durum wheat not raised its hagberg to 160 from 133 in storage and the Mill not lowered its...

My Dad always used to say if you cannot make up your mind whether to roll or not, do it and you’ll always be right. That was in East Anglia. Here in the North Cotswolds on the heavy Warwickshire clay, the reverse is true!

As good if not better than any PGR.

Without a shadow of any doubt! Men courting their ladies would take them down to the bean fields of an evening when they were in flower. Nobody has ever managed to bottle that smell. But if they could, it’d be worth a fortune!

It’s pretty difficult to think of any that don’t have it! It’s standard with every auto I can think of.

What stronger Pre-ems are you thinking of?

It is a balancing act of trying to establish a DD’d crop, without stunting it by using too harsh a Pre-em. The pre em is always going to be more harsh on relatively uncultivated soil and will finds its way into the seed slot when you get heavy rain. No BG is one thing. No crop either is...

The Weaving LD. They are very close to me (about 15 miles away).

That is exactly what I will be doing tomorrow, myself.

It’ll so depend on what the Autumn brings. Plan A: Most of my heaviest land is due to come AB6 next growing season, instead of a break crop. The rest will be LD subsoiled plus most of the medium land, ahead of drilling cereals. Where tramlines are getting deep and need levelling, I plan to...

2022 was one.

Oh sorry. Yes, you’re right unless it is a kind Autumn. We could plough and immediately Combi. But if left over night and it rains, it wont.

Which pictures? These Pictures? This farm is approx 3rd each of Warwickshire cat’s snot clay, a third something medium including some Banbury Ironstone and a third light land. Haven’t dared to roll the Spring Barley I drilled 2 weeks ago yet. Put some fertiliser on it today and needed 4WD...

Well I haven’t yet and I really don’t want to. But the War against Blackgrass is one we will never win. We can win some battles, but this season its like Dunkirk! It just so happens that I started DD in Spring 2020 and the weather was kind and/or we got beginner’s luck. However, this last 9...

On a lot of my land I split the Pre-em in two to try to stop the damage. But all those heavy rain storm events made no difference to whether I split it or not. It got the stage where I knew that If I didn’t get it on in the one go, none of it would have gone on at all and all the while BG was...