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- Sutton Coldfield
Would moving the soil allow it to warm up and give the maize a bit of a start?
How's this for low disturbance?
- Thread starter dontknowanything
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As with the claydon, it will allow air in and warmth. So yes you could be correct.
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Black soil warms faster than white trash. Don't think aeration is involved that much bar a dry soil warms faster than wet.
matttargett4
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No till maize ran 25t/ac here, identical to ploughed and ph in adjacent field divided by railway line.
My drill drill ran 3 rows with subsoiler legs 1 without, I know which way I planted it and I can't find the row without the leg.
What maize needs is nutrient availability, when you cover it with muck then plough you stimulate a lot of nutrient breakdown, not just n, I have a test from early in the yr showing highest n in the poorest part of the field and lowest in the best part but the k was opposite.
Look at the nutrient removal for 20t/ac of maize, then 4t/ac wheat and how long they have to grow and bear in mind maize doesn't scavenge well and it makes sense.
If you are planting with your Co I would put liquid in the row
My drill drill ran 3 rows with subsoiler legs 1 without, I know which way I planted it and I can't find the row without the leg.
What maize needs is nutrient availability, when you cover it with muck then plough you stimulate a lot of nutrient breakdown, not just n, I have a test from early in the yr showing highest n in the poorest part of the field and lowest in the best part but the k was opposite.
Look at the nutrient removal for 20t/ac of maize, then 4t/ac wheat and how long they have to grow and bear in mind maize doesn't scavenge well and it makes sense.
If you are planting with your Co I would put liquid in the row
You got some photos of this crop through out its growing stages and harvest?
matttargett4
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Will take a look when I get home, definitely have some from last year but not too sure about this year.
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Compaction.
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Nope
all that lovely OM leaving your farm ! were you not tempted to just drill into the standing maize and have the "value" in OM or was the forage price too good to turn down
Lot of similarities on this thread to my millet this year, its just been too cold and late maturity / harvest is a result of that
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
I might have done that if I had a disc drill
if my millet had taken any longer or we had weather before harvest to loose even more of it I was planning to just drill wheat direct into it. Sometimes you have to cut your losses but I reckon I would have seen quite a benefit in the wheat crop had I done that as we did after last years summer covers
Baling Hay
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Surprised how grassy it is!
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
That's the cover crop
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
- Location
- Cornwall.
DKA already owes me 2 mugs at this rate I could be looking at a dinner set!
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
I remember 1...?
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Doesn't count, I put a
Louis Mc
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- Location
- Meath, Ireland
To be fair it looks like you could have cut it a bit sooner if you wanted if you were under pressure to get wheat drilled
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Dairy farmer wasn't happy with it until now