Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

Shutesy · May 19, 2017

Few pics from walkaround this afternoon. Very glad its rained!!

Propino into wheat stubble, 200kg/ha drilled 31/3/17

Fuego Spring Beans into wheat stubble, 250kg/ha drilled 28/3/17

Volume Hybrid Barley into spring barley stubble, 84kg/ha drilled 25/9/16

TelesnaAg · May 19, 2017

If that barley is anything to go by,...your harvest will be very spread out!!!!

Looks good...

Ant...

Breakthru · May 20, 2017

Shutesy said:
Few pics from walkaround this afternoon. Very glad its rained!!
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Propino into wheat stubble, 200kg/ha drilled 31/3/17
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Fuego Spring Beans into wheat stubble, 250kg/ha drilled 28/3/17
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Volume Hybrid Barley into spring barley stubble, 84kg/ha drilled 25/9/16

Volume looking well, what about BG, has it flooded it out with that low seed rate.
Have you ever tried Volume/Pearl 50:50 mix (yield and quality)? Normally sown thicker than that up here but may come back to the old daylight hour length thing.

Shutesy · May 20, 2017

Breakthru said:
Volume looking well, what about BG, has it flooded it out with that low seed rate.
Have you ever tried Volume/Pearl 50:50 mix (yield and quality)? Normally sown thicker than that up here but may come back to the old daylight hour length thing.

First year growing a hybrid Barley, have grown SY Venture for the past few years, never thought about combining different varieties. This is one of our cleaner fields but any BG that is about has very few tillers and is buried under the canopy of the Barley. Seedrate was what worked out from a 5ha pack weighing 420kg.

Breakthru · May 20, 2017

Shutesy said:
First year growing a hybrid Barley, have grown SY Venture for the past few years, never thought about combining different varieties. This is one of our cleaner fields but any BG that is about has very few tillers and is buried under the canopy of the Barley. Seedrate was what worked out from a 5ha pack weighing 420kg.

You get some extra hybrid vigour effect from mixing. If it is your first time with 6 rows a tip for you if we get a damp wet harvest is that you will find it very difficult to de-awn the barley. The secret is to leave it lying overnight on the grain shed floor before moving it through driers, augers etc. The awns just fall off.
Where it is put straight into the drier it is then virtually impossible to remove them and in the last wet year here the hl weights were disastrous.
The Volume /Pearl mix matures at same time, keeps up hl weights and makes the seed cost cheaper. In BG situations will provide even better competition.
Food for thought maybe. B

mikep · May 21, 2017

Some heritage wheat flag leaf stage yet to boot. Chair for watching it grow (pigeon shooting really).

rob1 · May 22, 2017

mikep said:
Some heritage wheat flag leaf stage yet to boot. Chair for watching it grow (pigeon shooting really).View attachment 522426

that looks good, do you have a special market for the grain ?

mikep · May 22, 2017

rob1 said:
that looks good, do you have a special market for the grain ?

Hopefully discussing it today with others.

E_B · May 29, 2017

Maize into oat stubble, 19 days after drilling. Not sure how confident to feel about it but it is on some difficult land to drill, not because of soil type but because it's so bloody steep. Made the fan work hard. We shall see! Drilled with the mzuri.

Devon James · May 29, 2017

E_B said:
Maize into oat stubble, 19 days after drilling. Not sure how confident to feel about it but it is on some difficult land to drill, not because of soil type but because it's so bloody steep. Made the fan work hard. We shall see! Drilled with the mzuri.

Any fert down the leg? Got to be pleased with that

E_B · May 31, 2017

Devon James said:
Any fert down the leg? Got to be pleased with that

Thanks, yes went back today and had another look and pleased with how it's moving on now. Yep, DAP down the front leg, 100kg/ha or so.

Daniel · Jun 4, 2017

It's that time of the year when you remember why you grow winter linseed!

Brisel · Jun 4, 2017

Just forget last year, eh?

Daniel · Jun 4, 2017

Brisel said:
Just forget last year, eh?

If we get a few storms knock it over again I'll want to forget it for good I think.

Louis Mc · Jun 4, 2017

fanfare spring beans and paustian
Spring barely drilled into big green cover crops with 750a

mo! · Jun 6, 2017

Fanfare beans into mole ploughed stubble followed by a tickle with the dreaded PH.

Very clean at the moment, just had pre em.

mikep · Jun 7, 2017

What goes up sometimes comes down before it's time. Heritage wheat took a battering about 10% flat 50%leaning. Mind even some of the Nelson looked the worst for wear. Hoping as it's early it will put it's head up a bit.

Fish · Jun 21, 2017

No till peas
Top shot looking down the headland, note worms working in the tramline.
Second shot looking down the main tramlines in another field.
Variety is Prophet, drilled 10 April.

TelesnaAg · Jun 21, 2017

Fish said:
View attachment 538666 View attachment 538664 No till peas
Top shot looking down the headland, note worms working in the tramline.
Second shot looking down the main tramlines in another field.
Variety is Prophet, drilled 10 April.

for grain? or fresh peas? Friggin impressive...

Ant...

Fish · Jun 21, 2017

TelesnaAg said:
for grain? or fresh peas? Friggin impressive...

Ant...

They are for harvesting dry, if we can keep them from staining we might make the snack food market.

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