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Had an excellent demo of a GD on spring barley this spring and crop emergence looks superb. I went round the Agrovista lamport trial last week and I'm amazed how relaxed they are about open slots! Saw several plots with the Great Plains where slots were completely open and you can see all the...

Think you're asking a lot to no-till second wheats with a reasonable amount of straw residue, if the straw was removed think the establishment may potentially be better? A lot going on with straw residue breaking down, a scenario where nitrogen in the seedbed would be a bonus.

We are predominantly using the 2.5", better in damper conditions as less soil movement, depth control is good.

Penetration hasn't been a problem at all, sure the Dale would do a decent job in that situation.

Yes they,work really well for direct drilling, especially the 2.5" coulters, the 5" ones are ok, but very high soil disturbance.

The glut of Skyfall doesn't help, but it was always going to be the case when a good gp1 with decent yield gained popularity. I won't grow milling wheats unless they are on a minimum premium contract and that has been gradually tailing away the past couple of years. £20 is a minimum and if it...

Hi Andrew, prefer the narrower ones for lower disturbance and spring drilling, the 5" ones work well in most situations, just mindful that they do disrupt a bit more.

Saw some no tillled wheat by a 3m GD in to OSR & stripped linseed stubble that looked excellent round this way last week.

I had an inspection off the back of this and it was fine. The lady who came out was from a farming background and knew how to make sense of the questions she had to ask.

We tried it in the spring excellent establishment & seed placement, generally impressed with it, but in not particularly hard conditions it was nearly on its limit for downforce. The other issue was the price tag!

Yes it was, we switched between the 5 & 2.5" this Autumn for different situations, but seed placement is A1 with them.

This is no-till Spring barley direct in to some nasty heavy ground after covers from April this year.

Might not be a bad idea, find the soil flows back better over the points so covering harrows have a lot less work to do, especially with the 2.5" points.

We put the Dutch openers on our sprinter this year, direct drilled all the spring barley with good results and have direct drilled a lot of osr, wheat and covers with it this Autumn. Run the 2.5 & 5" points, I prefer the 2.5" as it disturbs much less, the gap between plant stands comes down to...

I used to run one of those in the late 90s/early 2000s!

You can get a bridging plate from techneat, we have the problem on one machine but not on a different one, as mentioned above having spoken with James, he thinks pressurising the tank will sort the problem, simple to do & they have the bits.

Really does look a great day with some excellent speakers, unfortunately not going to be able to make it now because of a rearranged meeting, & I'd bought my ticket!

That is the tricky bit as fusarium control can be a bit hit and miss and you need a degree of luck to get ting exactly right, but think it would be better on before. Its the period prior to flowering that is the crucial time for control.

Yes they are lower with a max 500, which is lower than most milling wheat specs! Not the year to omit a T3 potentially with the forecast for the week ahead, finished all ours on Friday.

Have you bought another Claydon or different drill Willy?