Spring drilling

[teslacoils]

Lol. Even stubbles have large areas where a man will sink

 

[rob h]

Ploughed last week. Its next to the river and spent most of winter under water. Does it every year but its not normally problem as its usually dry by April.

 

[Hesstondriver]

In true Clarkson style. I did a thing . A tramline . If you squint hard you can make out a couple more. And I think they are in the right place to

For those of you surprised at my surprise, remember tramlining involves me flicking the side lights on to activate the solenoids at the appropriate bout . This is after all SSB . Stockman Special Barley.

 

[Wigeon]

In true Clarkson style. I did a thing . A tramline . If you squint hard you can make out a couple more. And I think they are in the right place to View attachment 1179871
For those of you surprised at my surprise, remember tramlining involves me flicking the side lights on to activate the solenoids at the appropriate bout . This is after all SSB . Stockman Special Barley.

Looks a lot better than my spring barley! Very tidy.

 

[Phil P]

Last field of spring barley drilled and rolled just in time for the rain to start.

Just 90ac of canary seed left to go in then probably make a start on some of the AHL2

 

[4course]

Looks a lot better than my spring barley! Very tidy.

I give up since we managed to get ours in with a future forecast of rain / showers a week ago , this last week its been as dry as snuff the barley well chitted at sown depth is now going to face a layer of concrete , que sera sera

 

[David.]

In true Clarkson style. I did a thing . A tramline . If you squint hard you can make out a couple more. And I think they are in the right place to View attachment 1179871
For those of you surprised at my surprise, remember tramlining involves me flicking the side lights on to activate the solenoids at the appropriate bout . This is after all SSB . Stockman Special Barley.

Not to worry, you can get it straight next year, getting it in the ground was the main priority .

 

[4course]

Not to worry, you can get it straight next year, getting it in the ground was the main priority .

In times gone by as a young fella worked for a bloke who liked to drill and at the same time as whilst generally straight used to turn the steering wheel left and right up wiggling all the way up the bout ,reckoned the sun had more chance to shine on the whole crop. dont know if it was right or not but he was a fairly astute succesful guy .

 

[4course]

Further to my post above at college in the early 70s seem to remember some guru saying you should sow west east rather than north south for the beneficial effects of the sun ,never thought about it since but thinking about it its true to say our east west sown cops do seem to yield a tad better .

 

[teslacoils]

Spring barley just poking out now.

 

[Martyn]

Drilled bit over a week ago last field to get in, unfortunately I blocked a colter or two🫣

 

[glasshouse]

Further to my post above at college in the early 70s seem to remember some guru saying you should sow west east rather than north south for the beneficial effects of the sun ,never thought about it since but thinking about it its true to say our east west sown cops do seem to yield a tad better .

Its a load of tosh

 

[4course]

Its a load of tosh

ha, maybe tosh but ive just gone through the last few years results here and having not thought about this issue before taking our 4 biggest fields which average just under 70 acre all on similar soil types and farmed the same way there is certainly a yield difference in the two that are sown N/S and the 2 that are sown E/W due more to shape and location . Just to add our highest ever yield of ww was from one sown E/W . Maybe tosh but interesting nonetheless no doubt someone will come along saying theirs do better N/S ,ho ho

 

[T Hectares]

Is anyone seeing lots of slug damage on spring crops? The little sods are still nibbling my barley. Not great to see when my application vehicle has broken a shaft.

Yes, did a few patches a couple of weeks ago
Thought that was it and then 54mm in the last week means some more to do tomorrow

 

[Brisel]

I'm back out with the pelleter this morning after yesterday's rain. The crop is growing away nicely now, so just a few heavy patches being treated.

 

[T Hectares]

I'm back out with the pelleter this morning after yesterday's rain. The crop is growing away nicely now, so just a few heavy patches being treated.

Looks like some better temps next week so hopefully they will grow away

 

[Brisel]

Looks like some better temps next week so hopefully they will grow away

About bloody time too!

 

[glasshouse]

ha, maybe tosh but ive just gone through the last few years results here and having not thought about this issue before taking our 4 biggest fields which average just under 70 acre all on similar soil types and farmed the same way there is certainly a yield difference in the two that are sown N/S and the 2 that are sown E/W due more to shape and location . Just to add our highest ever yield of ww was from one sown E/W . Maybe tosh but interesting nonetheless no doubt someone will come along saying theirs do better N/S ,ho ho

I dont have the luxury of deciding which way todrill a field
Someone once asked me yo drill a rectangular field the short way E-w.
I said i would if you want to pay the the extra fuel and time it will take.
Got dropped quicker than liz truss.

 

[Woody j]

Drilled bit over a week ago last field to get in, unfortunately I blocked a colter or two🫣View attachment 1179898

Was the drill man on the beer

 

[Fish]

Spring crops so far, top to bottom.
Linseed
S Beans ex rye
S Barley, failed osr.