kildare farmer
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Which is best practice for growing crops ploughing or stitching in the seed?
Which is best practice for growing crops ploughing or stitching in the seed?
While good ploughing can do a lot to get rid of seeds to a depth they wont emerge from if we ploughed to 14 ins it would be solid yellow clay and while it is good stuff to put mole drains there is no way you could subsoil at that depth. Anyone saying they can plough at ten inches hasnt got heavy ground. I am coming to the conclusion that the best place for grass weed seeds is on the surface
Yes either on the surface or at 14 inches. Anything in between is bad news and will make the problem worse.
+1!!!14"
We haven't got 6" of soil in places here - never mind 14" !
I do wonder if there's middle way. In the 80s when straw burning was allowed a ford 7000 and bettinson dd work well at very low weight. And also the heavy land boys keeble/progressived twice at an angle. They booth achieved 10 t/ha. I believe the biggest problem now is a lot of trying to establish in a 1-2pass system were soil is lifted and pressed in 1 go and there is little aerobic action. That maybe the trouble with heavy tillage trains and also the new fashion of dts/claydon. I'm interested if my views are dated. All I will say is have our yields increased. In the 80s we were not spraying as often