renewablejohn
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Hope I have not upset Janet after my answer to her last post and not seen since
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renewablejohn
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Not at all, I've been here less the last couple of days just because I've had a lot of meetings and things to do - will come back and sweep up any outstanding questions on Monday
My tramlines have been in exactly the same place for 15 years put in with RTK on the sprayer not the drill and I struggle to see where they are.
I suggest you read the standard, it’s very easy if you have a straw chopper.
yellow belly
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this DD dude incorporates at least 50% every year
On heavy the worms pull it all into the soil So sign of cereal straw after a bean crop preceded by a cereal crop
two-cylinder
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Is there no demand for straw in DD land?
Elsewhere straw is worth more than the SFI payment?
Elsewhere straw is worth more than the SFI payment?
There is demand for straw in DD land, that is DD land uses the straw to build the soil. There is a finical hit from not selling the straw, but over time a benefit from feeding the straw to the soil. It's long game gains verses short game gains really. Straw for muck makes it a more complex calculation, but it would have to be worth the extra buggeration costs.
yellow belly
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I find early planted autumn crop suffer in too much straw linseed after wheat and wheat after canary seedThis DD dude lets the worms incorporate 100%
linseed straw is hard to chop
but later planted spring crops benefit from straw
highest yields of spring bean are after chopped straw which also helps the worms survive the low straw return of spring beans
yellow belly
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The price paid for straw does not cover the value of the straw to the soil and compaction reduction needed after big heavy balers
Hindsight
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Those straw fired power stations were the work of the devil
Using GPS to drill between the previous crops stubble rows has really taken those issues away for us.
Short term vs long term thinking. I know people the bale every acre every year and replace it with bagged fert and the soil is getting worse.
We only bale for agronomic reasons mostly winter barley infront of osr to help the rape establish better with less hassle
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Straw poisoning, acids forming as the straw breaks down and the soil biome using the N to help digest the carbon from the straw. Or has it picked up a bit of Crystal?
Agreed so long as the straw and muck can be taken off and got back on in good conditions.
Mixedupfarmer
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Are they on FBT's so have to wring every last penny out of the job to pay the rent on short tenancies?
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