Recent content by cquick

Balansa or crimson clover might be an interesting option, should tolerate a carefully designed pre-em and then take it out with spring BLW herbicides

Not quite real time, I use Syncthing between the guidance PCs so that as soon as I make an AB line I'm able to open 'from existing' on the other PC and use the line. Different jobs so not sharing coverage info. I haven't tested opening the same field, but I think there would be too many sync...

I'd be surprised if you can't find all the relevant buses on a J1939 connector somewhere. Looking at the configurator it seems like there's no 3rd party unlock beyond the initial steer ready option.

Pics from a few days ago, precision drilled on the subsoiler rows at 28 seeds/m2

Many other users on here? I thought it would be a good idea to trade ideas, mods etc. Received mine in July to replace an ancient Kuhn SD4000. First impressions, it's a seriously good drill. It pulls really easily, I've gone straight up some pretty steep slopes pulling it with my MF7480. The...

Recently changed from Guardian airs to Lechler IDKs. I think they're less prone to blocking (I use 03s so larger GAs may be less of a problem) and have a better spray pattern.

Been out and about drilling covers with the new toy recently, although my tractor does look a bit minuscule on the front, it pulls really well even on some fairly steep hills. @martian can we get drill-sized bumper stickers at next year's Groundswell? Can barely virtue signal to the car behind...

When we last bought tyres, the rep gave us a Ring RTG5 which seems accurate at low pressures.

Bit of a non-sequitur. I did the maths and that's still 408039744994083 molecules per 300 micron droplet. And while a tiny amount, it's clearly enough per ha to kill a plant many times over, as in stubbles most droplets will miss the plant and hit soil. You're still applying a chelator at kg/ha...

That doesn't mean it's active. I can easily believe it will bind to minerals in the soil and sit there for that long. Like I alluded to in my post, it's not the direct toxicity of the glyphosate, but the effects of binding free Fe, Mg, Mn etc that could cause an issue over time.

And we wonder why farmers are often seen as mean-spirited old gits 🤔🤔 Take your opportunities as they come, lean into it and enjoy the free publicity for a potentially lucrative tourist attraction.

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/glyphotech.html#env Seems a well sourced factsheet. From the national pesticide information centre, partnership between the US EPA and oregon University. Similar to the Hertfordshire database in the UK.

I recently learned this isn't quite the case. Glyphosate has a DT50 of about 50 days, and its main metabolite AMPA is also phytotoxic and can stick around for quite some time too. Glyphosate is also a very strong chelator and I think could be implicated in a lot of micronutrient deficiencies...

It certainly used to be the case there were so many middle of the road also-ran varieties, I'm surprised anyone grew them. But I think the more recent lists have culled a lot of them. In terms of varieties I'm growing, Redwald and Mayflower have been very clean indeed. Redwald hasn't shown big...

Rebellion is very leggy and seemed quite poor disease wise. Keep an eye out for LG Henri next year. No seed available as of yet but looked very clean indeed in the untreated plots. This was at Taunton so plenty of septoria kicking around. A few more one hit wonders coming from the KWS stable...