Drilling anyone?

Heathland

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
What are tractors 4 and 5 attached too? As I can't see a fert spinner or sprayer behind either I assume you must be going with a single Cambridge roller over it, twice... or are they spares because, well they are MF's.... :ROFLMAO:
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Another plough and a mud maker!

Its Chandler's demo day, MF tractors and Maschio equipment.
They were struggling to find a place to do a demo due to ground conditions,only to happy to help out. Plus I'm also losing my favourite Green and Yellow dealer.
I was all red back in the day:)
Its all failed OSR ground so it'll get drilled with spring barley next week,just need to get my seed clean!
 
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teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
It may be I can get the worked land sprayed off on Friday evening or Saturday morning and some fert on the grass.

One plough going on a local kind field. Wasn't overly pretty. Bit of an utterly butterly finish.
 

Oscar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Well the ground I saw and mentioned on Monday being ploughed and drilled turns out to be skyfall WW !! Will be very intrested to see how it does as I would think it's too late for WW and its spring like today, 14 degrees. Just had a wander around my farm and the ground on the whole has dried up amazingly but still have wet patches and some headlands dribbling water on surface still. Might have a go on Saturday with liquid N and my phone has been busy today with folks saying they want to go next week . Did manage a full load on Monday on some stubbles with round up but that farm is like a shingle beach next to Bristol channel at Porlock, nice to do something, have nt turned a wheel since 15th November !!
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
Dad pigtailed a ex beet field yesterday which has dried up and hazed off a treat so itll get KKK'ed tomorrow and drilled.
Another block that was ploughed in the autumn was just too wet today when he ran a tine through it so itll have to wait a few days. Well probably plough and drill some beet next week then come back to the wetter spring barley land.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Pouring down again this evening so that’s everything put back a bit further and a bit more of the Jan drilled wheat killed. 2020 from a crops point of view looks like it cannot be consigned to the history books fast enough
 

AT Aloss

Member
NFFN Member
Pouring down again this evening so that’s everything put back a bit further and a bit more of the Jan drilled wheat killed. 2020 from a crops point of view looks like it cannot be consigned to the history books fast enough
60 acres of November drilled Skyfall written off here in North Lincs in the last week. Had a January & February application of fertiliser but its get up & go just got up & went.
 
60 acres of November drilled Skyfall written off here in North Lincs in the last week. Had a January & February application of fertiliser but its get up & go just got up & went.
I redrilled half my wheat in spring 2013 as it had no get up and go in March and early April
I only had 4 entirely wheat fields a lot spring barley and wheat the spring barley margined as much as the wheat and helped reduce the black grass
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I redrilled half my wheat in spring 2013 as it had no get up and go in March and early April
I only had 4 entirely wheat fields a lot spring barley and wheat the spring barley margined as much as the wheat and helped reduce the black grass


If blackgrass is a big issue for a farmer surely the best you can make of such a year as this is fallow / cover crop/fertility build ............ maybe graze and sort it out big time ??

Ok it's going to hurt financially this year but you can not farm one year at a time!
 

AT Aloss

Member
NFFN Member
I redrilled half my wheat in spring 2013 as it had no get up and go in March and early April
I only had 4 entirely wheat fields a lot spring barley and wheat the spring barley margined as much as the wheat and helped reduce the black grass
It was always a bit of a risk trying to get a block of wheat together on some stronger bits that would have needed it to dry up after drilling, but it wasn't to be.
 
If blackgrass is a big issue for a farmer surely the best you can make of such a year as this is fallow / cover crop/fertility build ............ maybe graze and sort it out big time ??

Ok it's going to hurt financially this year but you can not farm one year at a time!
The cost of a cover crop is similar to planting a spring crop
spring barley planted in April with Avadex eliminates black grass
1st cereal spring barley crop the following wheat crop can yield as much as a first wheat crop following a 1 year break from wheat
notill crops planted 2 week later

if the soil is in a Mess from the previous crop or failed winter crop any cultivation when it is too wet then learn to be more patient
 

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