Thats what you call a rough seedbed!We bought an old 6m Vaderstad Cultus in a hurry mid October. Thought I'd messed up getting something with too heavy tines (wanted to use it normally as a cultivator too), but it actually mixed the soil and seed nicely. 300-330kg/ha though. Amazone fert spreader at 18m. Got 250ac we wouldn't have done otherwise and it looks actually not too bad. 12kph with the cultivator and no stopping to fill up / unblock coulters gave a good output. Trailed implement meant 8 psi in the tyres, which was much lighter treading than any other outfit we had. Filled a trailer of seed out the barn, tipped into telehandler bucket and into the fert spreader. I took the advice of many to start doing it early rather than as a fire engine job.
Decided not to put the pre-em on until it came up (and it was well up because of rain delays) which has left more black-grass than I'd like. I know a number of people who put the pre-em on straight away even with seed on the surface saying it was more important to get the black-grass. Having been burnt last year with wheat damage, I held off.
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Did some barley as well which I think is OK. Both pictures taken 2 November.
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