Hammer
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- South Norfolk
Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery
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Warp Land Farmer
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- Hazzard County
Looks good, what soil type? Do you have any close up pictures of the seeding slot?
Hammer
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- South Norfolk
It’s difficult to show well in a photo, but here’s a couple. Going slowly so very little soil throw and seed it getting covered well.
Warp Land Farmer
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- Hazzard County
That’s impressive. Is it a tine drill with. Twin closing wheels?? Me likey a-lot
Hammer
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- South Norfolk
Update on this... well we didn't get any rain for over 2 weeks following drilling but the rape is finally getting away now there's some moisture.
R J
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- Herefordshire
Our dts drilled rape (first year with the drill)
Stumbled on this blast from the past earlier and was interested to know how it went and whether you still drill into grass stubbles successfully.
I have forty odd acres to do this autumn and want to try and do it with my Claydon but am a bit nervous as it's year one!
I have forty odd acres to do this autumn and want to try and do it with my Claydon but am a bit nervous as it's year one!
Devon James
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- Devon
Best if the grass is eaten right down to nothing. Drive slower than normal so the turf isnt thrown all over the place and off the seed. Top link may need tweaking to get the rear a shares at the correct depth.
Devon James
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- Devon
Hope to get it sprayed off this morning. Rolled last night. Perfect conditions at the moment, soil dry and friable. Why the fudge does it want to rain just now when everyone wants to go?!
Indeed, I drilled 35 acres barley yesterday, 30 acres
of wheat today, going to attempt drilling into a small ley field.
Rolling and pre em tomorrow.
I have one maize field cleared but it does have some weed. I know you have drilled into maize, should I spray off first?
It doesn't look like much drilling until mid October after tomorrow!
Devon James
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- Devon
Drill then spray?
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- Foothills of the Quantocks
Pumpkins drilled into the 6ft rye have done surprisingly well considering the drought left us with less than 50% germination. I think we would've been in a worse position if we had cultivated and drilled into dust.
The rye has gone down into a strawy layer, keeping the pumpkins dry. Few plants but several fruits each, and excellent size (we charge per pumpkin, not by weight, so generally the bigger the better to keep the punters happy, as long as they can lift them!)
Due to the weird year we didn't get any herbicides on, hence the fat hen/fumitory kicking about. The crop has received 3 fungicides and a dollop of N.
Opening in about 3 weeks so will be going through cutting off the stems in 10-15 days ish.
The rye has gone down into a strawy layer, keeping the pumpkins dry. Few plants but several fruits each, and excellent size (we charge per pumpkin, not by weight, so generally the bigger the better to keep the punters happy, as long as they can lift them!)
Due to the weird year we didn't get any herbicides on, hence the fat hen/fumitory kicking about. The crop has received 3 fungicides and a dollop of N.
Opening in about 3 weeks so will be going through cutting off the stems in 10-15 days ish.
Hammer
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- South Norfolk
An update on my Virkar drilled rape after a walk around today. And also a couple of some wheat drilled 12 days ago, first one Parkin after spring beans, second one Costello after rape (I drilled a catch crop after the rape but the slugs ate all of it!) We've now had over 100mm of rain in the last 9 days...
Hammer
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- South Norfolk
After 140 mm rain now since drilling(and more overnight), some is not looking good. First couple of pics of wheat after beans drilled 20 days ago, pre-em before deluge and obvious drainage issues to blame. Second 2 pics of same field of wheat after rape, 2 doses of Sluxx pre-drilling and top up since and slugs have still got a lot of it, but where the volunteers escaped the slugs the crop is clearly much better. Slugs have been our main headache since starting to direct drill 10 years ago - apart from to stop growing rape, what is the answer?! Have tried cover and catch crops this year but they decimated these too...
- Location
- CW5 Cheshire
Have you tried a pass or two with a straw rake immediately after combining the rape? It will give you a better stand of volunteers.
Ok for cover crops or beans or osr
Hammer
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- South Norfolk
Thanks yes have tried this - the problem is that slug pressure is always so high in the rape (can't ever combine rape here at night as they will gum the grain pan in no time!) that the volunteers get eaten as soon as they germinate. That one area of volunteers is an anomaly. I though trying to drill a cover straight after the rape was worth a try but they decimated it too and I was reluctant to pellet at that stage.