charlesbrown
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Thanks for your perspective. Can you elaborate a bit more on your point about the flap of soil being a breakthrough? Are you saying that it performs much better in marginal conditions (and I know from you soil type that this is likely to be wet and sticky), and, if so, in what way?
Well its sort of obvious really, I'm sure you must have seen the drill working. Instead of a vertical "v" that then needs soil pushing sideways to fill it, because the seed is injected under the "flap" it just then needs a wheel to close the flap!
Some seed then grows verticaly through the soil, some seems to grow up the side of the flap, not sure under what conditions the former happens but I would think that would be preferable. It probably depends on moisture, ie if the side is smeared slightly?
As regards wet conditions, I suppose it hasn't been really tested yet. Although the last bit of drilling after rape was done 17th Oct ( to maximise BG flushes, and we then risked a further Rup just before emergence,bit nail biting doing that!) when it was wettish and that has come well due to the mild dryish weather subsequently.
But we have the little T sem in reserve, that will go in the wet, if we have to!
cb