When to apply nitrogen

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DRC

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• Mar 2, 2020

• #21

czechmate said:

That’ll be fine with a bit of tillering

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Looks like a Claydon drilled it

 

Jon 3085

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Location

Worcester, UK

• Mar 2, 2020

• #22

silverfox said:

Is that the M5. If so I drove past you yesterday enroute from daughters in Cheltenham , back to Son in Ludlow

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Yep by junction 4a.

 

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DRC

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• Mar 2, 2020

• #23

Jon 3085 said:

Yep by junction 4a.

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Went up the A44, is that the one?

 

Jon 3085

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Worcester, UK

• Mar 2, 2020

• #24

silverfox said:

Went up the A44, is that the one?

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Junction 4a on the M5.

 

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DRC

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• Mar 2, 2020

• #25

Jon 3085 said:

Junction 4a on the M5.

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Yes, sorry. Not sure of the junction numbers. Came off the M5 to head up the A44,
Off topic now, so apologies

 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer

Location

Suffolk

• Mar 3, 2020

• #26

Travelling nicely today on zero till craft winter barley on some hanslope clay. Drilled 12th Oct.

 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer

Location

Midlands

• Mar 3, 2020

• #27

silverfox said:

Looks like a Claydon drilled it

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Ahem. I hope you admired @Flintstone 's Claydon drilling

 

David.

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Mixed Farmer

Location

J11 M40

• Mar 3, 2020

• #28

Jon 3085 said:

Did some today,all went well on sandy soil.Not so good on black soil?.View attachment 861519View attachment 861520View attachment 861521View attachment 861519View attachment 861520View attachment 861521View attachment 861522

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Does the drillman eat his sandwiches going along?
Crops look right enough from here.

 

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DRC

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• Mar 3, 2020

• #29

Managed to get onto the barley this afternoon . Sank in a few places , but mostly travelled ok. A few big lakes to avoid that aren’t normally there .

 

David.

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Mixed Farmer

Location

J11 M40

• Mar 3, 2020

• #30

That landscape is certainly what might be called "rolling", or are some of those stone pits?
Is that pond always a wet hole, looks like rushes poking out the water.

 

JCfarmer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

warks

• Mar 3, 2020

• #31

silverfox said:

Managed to get onto the barley this afternoon . Sank in a few places , but mostly travelled ok. A few big lakes to avoid that aren’t normally there .View attachment 861662View attachment 861663

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Are you sure you haven't strayed onto a golf course in that first photo silverfox? ?

 

D

DRC

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• Mar 3, 2020

• #32

David. said:

That landscape is certainly what might be called "rolling", or are some of those stone pits?
Is that pond always a wet hole, looks like rushes poking out the water.

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It’s pretty rolling around here. All glacial deposits , so every soil type you can think of. That field is called the gravel hole field and is as it’s name suggests. There’s always two ponds in that field, but the one has expanded more than I’ve ever seen in my 58 yrs. Water has been running off other land into it.
Locally we have 7 lakes or Meres , a bit of a mini Lake District

 

JCfarmer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

warks

• Mar 3, 2020

• #33

On osr this evening after the wind had dropped and fixed the oil pipe for the telemat! Finish the rest thats any good in the morning before yet more rain to come at lunchtime. Urea sulphur

 

Flintstone

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Location

Berkshire

• Mar 3, 2020

• #34

Brisel said:

Ahem. I hope you admired @Flintstone 's Claydon drilling

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I got told to delete the photos in case I upset anyone!

Please don’t tell me everyone here is getting all snowflaky!!

 

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Wombat

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BASIS

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East yorks

• Mar 3, 2020

• #35

silverfox said:

Looks like a Claydon drilled it

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Our neighbours is where it has been since Sept, still in the shed

 

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Wombat

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BASIS

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East yorks

• Mar 3, 2020

• #36

ajd132 said:

Travelling nicely today on zero till craft winter barley on some hanslope clay. Drilled 12th Oct.
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Looks brilliant, without wanting to get into a whos had more rain discussion any idea how much its had on it since drilling?

 

Flintstone

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Location

Berkshire

• Mar 3, 2020

• #37

 

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Wombat

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BASIS

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East yorks

• Mar 3, 2020

• #38

Flintstone said:

Basically, if you’re in Norfolk, Aberdeenshire, or coastal North East, you’re all pussies and should be drilled up!


The rest of us eat raw pork and have sex with tigers. That’s how tough we are.



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Or you farm soil with some stone in it and some slope, thats certainly the secret round here this year be sat on a few hundred foot chalk sponge, unfortunately were at the bottom of that sponge

 

Flintstone

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Location

Berkshire

• Mar 3, 2020

• #39

I was editing as you typed!
I was only joking. That map is scary, and shows just who’s faced the worst of it in the last month.

 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer

Location

Suffolk

• Mar 3, 2020

• #40

Wombat said:

Looks brilliant, without wanting to get into a whos had more rain discussion any idea how much its had on it since drilling?

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336mm, no way near as much as some but it has been very frustrating of constant topping up on clay! I am pleased how it looks though considering.