Tompkins
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- NE Somerset
Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery
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Tompkins
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- NE Somerset
Tompkins
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- NE Somerset
green giant
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- Northumberland
Taken this morning, wheat after spring linseed.
mikep
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- Location
- Arse end of Surrey, UK
We have had a really crap winter which on our land is not very helpful and the crops are fairly backwards in places but these photos do point out the difference between no till and tillage on this land.
I was walking the dogs this morning along one of our boundary brooks and nipped over the brook to nosey over my neighbors stuff as one does. The brook is in a shallow valley and my fields are north facing and his south so his should be away quicker.
They were drilled on the same day 02/10/15 his by a Rapide into well cultivated land by a local contractor total value of machinery for drilling over £100,000.
Mine were no tilled into chopped oat straw total value of machinery for drilling £10,000.
I am amazed at the difference especially as mine seemed to really struggle to do anything and spent most of the winter a funny yellowy purple and single stemmed. Sorry for the poor quality but phone would not play ball with the focus bloody technology.
Mine looking back over the brook.
His, there is a reasonable plant there but it is as wet as it looks and you can judge the colour by the bit of headland in the bottom right of this picture.
I was walking the dogs this morning along one of our boundary brooks and nipped over the brook to nosey over my neighbors stuff as one does. The brook is in a shallow valley and my fields are north facing and his south so his should be away quicker.
They were drilled on the same day 02/10/15 his by a Rapide into well cultivated land by a local contractor total value of machinery for drilling over £100,000.
Mine were no tilled into chopped oat straw total value of machinery for drilling £10,000.
I am amazed at the difference especially as mine seemed to really struggle to do anything and spent most of the winter a funny yellowy purple and single stemmed. Sorry for the poor quality but phone would not play ball with the focus bloody technology.
Mine looking back over the brook.
His, there is a reasonable plant there but it is as wet as it looks and you can judge the colour by the bit of headland in the bottom right of this picture.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
Its similar to a lot round here which looked better than my dd stuff all winter yet mine now looks greener . Think i will go skiing all next winter so i dont spend up till end of march thinking dd isnt as good.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
SilliamWhale
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Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
That's not a no-till drill!
SilliamWhale
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Its an optical illusion..
SilliamWhale
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Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
What are you going to do afterwards?
SilliamWhale
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Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
I hope your not asking me out on a date?
If you continue to spend so much time posting pictures and answering questions on here there won't be an afterwards. Get on with the task in hand man!
SilliamWhale
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I'll get my nephew to cambridge roll it all about 6 o clock i think it should be ok by then
SilliamWhale
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Last of the barley today into land ex stubble turnips. Chicken muck (straw based) chucked on about a month ago. It slotty again but confident with a drying day i should be able to shut them up with a cambridge roll this evening. Pics of headland which are naturally a bit worse
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Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Will the rolls really close the whole slot? I can see that they might close the top, but with a vertical slot I can see that there might not be closure right down to the bottom which might leave a void for slugs.
Is it surprising after all of your no-tillage that the drill slots the ground in that way (especially on your boys land
)?SilliamWhale
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Will the rolls really close the whole slot? I can see that they might close the top, but with a vertical slot I can see that there might not be closure right down to the bottom which might leave a void for slugs.
Is it surprising after all of your no-tillage that the drill slots the ground in that way (especially on your boys land
Ill have a cross slot if i can close the top and a void below!
I think the rolls should close most of what i need by this evening as what has been shifted apart by the discs should be a bit dryer and crumblier by 6 o clock.
Spring barley after grazed turnips will be low slug pressure. This field isnt an ideal scenario of course, typically id wait another two days but rain due on thursday. Also lots of down pressure needed today after sheep feet which is why the slots are worse than if not grazed.
More pics later, i know you cant wait!
SilliamWhale
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@Feldspar i was wrong about the first field. Ive really struggled to close the slots with a roll. Its baked hard. That will teach me.
With hindsight i wish I increased the depth a notch, reduced the pressure and waited another day for drying. Believe it or not im hoping for a couple of decent rainy days to help germination now!
With hindsight i wish I increased the depth a notch, reduced the pressure and waited another day for drying. Believe it or not im hoping for a couple of decent rainy days to help germination now!