I am pleased. And my thoughts are along the lines of - if my drill can manage to sow spring linseed, grass and OSR happily into stubbles and cover crops, do I really need to change to a different drill? I cant say I am madly in love with a vaderstad, but at least I know it will have some residual value which given that most of the crops I plant dont actually belong to me, is an important consideration.
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Quick update on my spring beans posted earlier on this thread. Looking good! V happy with them.
SilliamWhale
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More pics. Wizard beans into pasture - bit slow, don't think they will be amazing but fertility is low. Winter wheat and then spring barley. Spring barley is fine but I drilled into very strawy chicken muck which was a bit testing. Drilled with 60kg ha of DAP.
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green giant
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Yesterday drilling maize direct into last year's stubble with the DTS. Done as a trial, sown at 33kg/h and one bag on standard spacing's of 333mm and another with the front 4 coulters blocked off.
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green giant
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Used the bean coulters, drilling from where I was ask to drill from, last years was drilled up and down, for what reason?
Soil erosion, it is most decidedly not recommended on slopes for maize, though is suppose with less disturbance there should be less run off. We've planted ours with the wide coulters on every row but on ploughed land. I'll get some pics up when it comes through. We found when planting beans that the narrow coulter was dropping the seed down to the bottom of the slot. We probably had the front leg too deep. Beans are just showing now. Planted Apr 7th, we knocked off after a bag as we thought it was too wet, with hindsight we should have carried on. The rest went in a week later but are all coming now.
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green giant
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Very uniformed paving
Fuego beans drilled with Mzuri
Sanette spring barley drilled with Mzuri
Looks good, where in the country are you ? No barley round here is as far on.
Stafford
Crusoe winter wheat drilled with Mzuri
average farmer
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You have some fantastic looking crops there DangerRanger
I would like to take the credit for the crops but I really think that direct drilling suits the farm.
The other things the crops are benefiting from are
Long rotation (not long enough 5yrs)
Winter cover over crops on 40% of the ground
Grazing the cover crops with sheep
I'm not surprised that you got black grass there.
York-Th.
average farmer
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I think Direct/strip drilling would suit a lot more farms if they were managed like that