- Location
- Lincolnshire
1. People who have bloody great big heavy kit who are set up to go for max acres per day, but instead they’re unable to move.
2. People who have cultivated behind the combine.
3. People who’ve gone down the DD route but with overly complicated six figure drills that have been developed during the last few dusty and easy autumns.
I’ve been on drilling last week and got another 200 acres in for other farmers on heavy land that hasn’t been moved until the drill went in the field. It went in well. That’s 1100 acres drilled so far.
I’ve watched people in the last month wait to get their cultivated soil to a moisture level that they’re happy to work it in front of the drill, and then get rained off yet again after they’ve done yet another passI can fully understand their frustration.
Unmoved ground drills at least 75% sooner than moved ground, and it’s largely the awkward timing of the rain in October that caused the problems and not just the volume.
My unmoved land is a state. Stood water everywhere. It's raining more than can flow through it. Every third day it rains more than has percolated through it.
No direct drills working round here. It's saturated to drain depths. Every combine wheeling is full.
Worked, unconsolidated soil is awful. But where we made a seedbed behind the combine and rolled it will be the first to go.
Don't want to get into the who's got the heaviest sh!t, but once you're drilled up, have a drive up here and see just what has been done. In the land of pancake flat clay, it's simple equation based on rainfall minus percolation and evaporation. Rainfall winning.