Wheat drilling
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
I wish black grass was not here as we would be finished drilling in ideal conditions and not waiting for it to get wet and mauly.
Not that I'd swap early drilling (11th October finish?!) for blackgrass, but rest assured that a rotation with 50% spring cropping does keep weeds down but means 2-3 months of worrying about getting drilled up in the spring only for a few weeks of dry weather to knock the yields back. A lot of spring cropping helps sort grass weeds but I suspect you guys with a bit of BG have a better bottom line and more consistent yields from more winter crops!
Very short on spraying weather this autumn so we've been like a bachelor (get whenever you can). 29mm 22-23 Sept, 7mm last Saturday & more predicted from now onwards meant I had less worries about applying pre ems to dry soil. Living in the wetter West does have its advantages sometimes. You lot further East are still drilling/harvesting/spraying/BBQing when I'm watching the rain hammering against my office window so this isn't the land of milk & honey.
Very short on spraying weather this autumn so we've been like a bachelor (get whenever you can). 29mm 22-23 Sept, 7mm last Saturday & more predicted from now onwards meant I had less worries about applying pre ems to dry soil. Living in the wetter West does have its advantages sometimes. You lot further East are still drilling/harvesting/spraying/BBQing when I'm watching the rain hammering against my office window so this isn't the land of milk & honey.
Slightly off topic what part of Dorset are you, we had our family holiday in worth matravers, loved winspit bay brilliant swimming and a good pub at the end of a walk.
- Location
- Cirencester
4 fields here left to drill (failed OSR) got a very good flush of BG, so will spray off and try and sit tight for a while, rest all drilled up, fired it in quite a bit deeper than normal, hoping to delay as long as I dare pre em and try and catch any emerged BG with some glypho in with the pre em.
- Location
- Berkshire
35% drilled here in the last 2 days, all had Avadex and Crystal applied at night / early morning to miss the wind.
Going to let this storm go through then flat out to drill the remainder of the WW and (hopefully) Beans in next week / following week too...
Fingers crossed !!
Going to let this storm go through then flat out to drill the remainder of the WW and (hopefully) Beans in next week / following week too...
Fingers crossed !!
90hp farming
Member
finished the wheat on my postage stamp this afternoon. done it all arse about face this year
2nd wheats directed drilled last week ( cockup on calibration - drill seemed seamed to alter its rate across the field) so some ended up with 16 stone in the first week of October !!
1st wheats after ploughing this week ( land was long term ley sprayed off in May! laid bare all summer with ewes and lambs and ring feeders. should have been May sown forage brassicas ) actually ploughed ok presumably because there was no plant to wick out the moisture. two passes with my antique terrastar and copious Cambridge rolling.
barley still to go in on other light land farm after the weekend.
I wont win arable farmer of the year...……...
2nd wheats directed drilled last week ( cockup on calibration - drill seemed seamed to alter its rate across the field) so some ended up with 16 stone in the first week of October !!
1st wheats after ploughing this week ( land was long term ley sprayed off in May! laid bare all summer with ewes and lambs and ring feeders. should have been May sown forage brassicas ) actually ploughed ok presumably because there was no plant to wick out the moisture. two passes with my antique terrastar and copious Cambridge rolling.
barley still to go in on other light land farm after the weekend.
I wont win arable farmer of the year...……...
90hp farming
Member
Well here`s hoping...…..
Its all had 1 ton / acre of kalfos.
Just the one post em orange stain planned as herbicide and bit of roguing in June
4 cwt of singletop and a sniff of Efficient 28.
Just a T1 and a T2 last year.
am I still in the competition?
Its all had 1 ton / acre of kalfos.
Just the one post em orange stain planned as herbicide and bit of roguing in June
4 cwt of singletop and a sniff of Efficient 28.
Just a T1 and a T2 last year.
am I still in the competition?
I assume I will need to drill some wheat before I can enter the competition??
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Arrr but if you don't....
You might have a profit margin per arce better than an Arable Farmer of the Year
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
overnight rain going to stop play this morning so maybe wont finish today as hoped,forecast not good for tommorrow ,but as the last field is a ploughed out grass it will do more good than harm and will work much easier and cheaper in a day or so if we cant . Talking of cost, just had our 3 month diesel statement and it shows a very useful reduction in usage ££ this harvest even though we have more or less subsoiled every acre and spread more lime gypsum and muck than usual this sowing campaign, plus an extra 40 acre. Three things have contributed to this 1 land has worked down much easier this year than I expected after being so dry and we never let any dry out without pressing/part working , as a side issue we havnt used as much wearing metal. 2 we have not used the grain drier though we do have a bit in aeration bins to dry . 3 we didnt have a dark green tractor on hire that needed filling up twice/day!!
- Location
- Wiltshire
After a good day yesterday now done a third. Next in will be after osr which was cultivated 3 weeks ago and not a plant has germinated on it. Then will be wheat after maize. Finally 70 ac after grass, did 4th cut last week just have some muck to spread on it.
I will be pleased if we finish before the clocks change I haven’t done that for a few years.
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I will be pleased if we finish before the clocks change I haven’t done that for a few years.
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- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Just about finished wheat, just got maize stubbles to do once it's harvested, got a couple of days on winter barley next
Planning to start on land that has had bg on before next week,there is small patches on it so the stale seedbed has worked provided I can get it all drilled in the next couple of weeks, I wish we didn’t have any bg because it’s been bloody hard sitting around with all this good weather but I know it’s the right thing to do and going back to the old ways of early drilling is just a one way ticket to problems in future years
If you are/were being patient and holding of drilling wheat till rain came ,how many acres/ha have you to plant and which area of the uk are you. I assume that those of you farm in the eastern counties may have drier autumn then over here in the Cotswolds, but you also have more difficult soils to contend with when they get wet. I suppose in theory whether one has 200 or 2000acres to plant you will be kitted up accordingly.
Hope all goes well when rain comes or stops!!!
Hope all goes well when rain comes or stops!!!