Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Against_the_grain]

If that was mine I’d be ploughing when conditions improve to give it a chance to dry out

On heavy land you are joking

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Considering how crap it's looked all winter, this wheat has no right looking this good.
All drilled 16/17 Oct, on top of the Quantocks so it started on the back foot. Applied 50kgN as urea on Feb 5th
Mayflower after OSR & catch crop
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Redwald after the same
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Champion after peasView attachment 1165214


Olympus after peas seems to have gone a bit mental and become a grass ley:
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You're the first person I have heard who is growing mayflower. Is this your first time?

 

[Renaultman]

View attachment 11656211st ww after linseed. 100Ha of dd has all completely failed here this year.

That's quite shocking, I would have thought the good rooting traits of linseed would give ideal natural drainage.
I do think soil 'tightness' may become an issue for me. To the point I'm contemplating putting an ST bar with low disturbance legs Infront of the Simtech for my last attempt at establishing OSR
It only my 2nd year of tentatively dipping my feet into the DD pool so I am by no means qualified to comment.

 

[alomy75]

I just think this thread needed some balance. Last year our DD crops were good, this year in a wet year on heavy land its a disaster. The water just cant get away quick enough. Im beginning to think its just too un-reliable in our climate on heavy soils. Will probably spring tine it and put something else in this spring but the fields are in a real state.

Same here. Don’t lose faith; I’ve got some drilled very early October that’s lovely; it’s just the mid oct stuff is rubbish. I’m thinking October onwards is the new second week of October onwards for drilling whilst avoiding blackgrass(?)

 

[cquick]

You're the first person I have heard who is growing mayflower. Is this your first time?

Second year, I grew 3ha last harvest for seed and have about 20ha this year. It's super clean and vigorous, I really like it. Yielded the same as everything else last year. It seems to like getting its N earlier in the season, and you can probably get away with £50 of fungicide if you're feeling brave.

State of your crops 2023

How does this compare to an average year? Its hotter than normal for the time of year. Last week one day equalled the hottest day in May ever recorded. I tend to think a typical May for us the weather builds to the mid 20s and we have a thunder storm often with heavy rain and the temperature...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Wombat]

Same here. Don’t lose faith; I’ve got some drilled very early October that’s lovely; it’s just the mid oct stuff is rubbish. I’m thinking October onwards is the new second week of October onwards for drilling whilst avoiding blackgrass(?)

for us its the 150mm in two weeks after drilling on the 10th Oct that just knackered it. Not a lot can cope with nearly a quarter of our annual rainfall in 2 weeks

 

[Renaultman]

Dawsum 3rd wheat starting to get hold of it's N

 

[alomy75]

My only decent field of wheat this year 🫣

 

[Nailuj]

Triticale-Vetch-Mix for biogas silage, direct drilled after sunflowers. Only a dose of glyphosate + manure.

 

[Fish]

Winter barley, still hanging on, no fert so far.

 

[sjt01]

Beans and oats, straight into maize stubble. Got the proportion of oats a bit better this year, last year they rather overwhelmed the beans, I am sure they will overtake the beans soon.

 

[ollie989898]

View attachment 1165338Extase after Maize direct drilled with amazone cayenna.

That is particularly impressive as I know the after maize slot is much much harder than a regular September crop.

 

[Fish]

Finally getting the herbicide on the hybrid rye ( no pre em) broadway star + pgr .

 

[EddieB]

Finally kicked off spring drilling, peas into a sprayed off cover crop and a pass through with a LD subsoiler.

 

[sjt01]

Started drilling maize for 2024, soil moist and warm, cover crop mostly flattened by trailing shoe digestate application followed by composted FYM. Our new Concept strip till machine, and new fertiliser hoppers on the drill gives us 6 operations in one.

 

[Danieljack1991]

That is particularly impressive as I know the after maize slot is much much harder than a regular September crop.

Maize is planted with the same drill. And soil not bashed to smithereens.

 

[cquick]

Finally getting the peas in today, seedbed is ok-ish but still a bit of an open slot. It's pulling very hard after this winter, and the soil is a bit capped after umbilical slurry.

Drilling here into rye after maize.

 

[willyorkshire]

!st wheat after osr, strip till with DTS.

 

[Mark Hatton]

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!st wheat after osr, strip till with DTS.

That looks well, even better with the sun shining on it!

 

[Jsmith2211]

Finally getting the peas in today, seedbed is ok-ish but still a bit of an open slot. It's pulling very hard after this winter, and the soil is a bit capped after umbilical slurry.

Drilling here into rye after maize.

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Why are you drilling peas into the rye? Is it for an intercrop?