Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Everyone knows what to do but it costs too much. Looking at the evidence above 10 oct. is an early drilling date for grassy land yet delaying is potentially costly. Moving away from autumn only rotations is costly.
True. It's a very fine line between delayed drilling and not drilling in the autumn at all due to wet soil. Then you put more wheeling damage in, have to put on more slug pellets, have trouble complying with LERAPs with pre-ems etc, etc. Drilling when you have to wipe lots of mud off your boots when you get in the tractor just feels so much worse than drilling when the days are longer. These fields are a bit of a surprise because they've had spring crops in and had a fallow last year. In hindsight, should not have deep cultivated - that was the mistake.