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I am on heavy land, up to 65% clay, and this picture shows what a cover crop can do. This is where the drainage water from 2 separate fields converge. Both fields were treated the same, pig tailed followed by a ld subsoiler and then rolled. The field to the left had no cover crop, the field from...

Completely at 220m of a 350m run. If I leave the jet there for a few minutes I get an extra metre, then leave it and repeat. I think it is futile but the landowner is keen to keep going

All the outfalls are into ditches thankfully

Can anyone give some drain jetting tips? I am jetting a scheme laid in 1999 on silt with a bit of clay. I am using a homburg delta with a standard nozzle and operating at 40 bar. Currently not even doing one metre/minute. It will almost be cheaper to put a new scheme in… Can I increase pressure...

That is exactly how it came across to me as well

Thank you, I can easily increase the rates. I grow beans too tight as it is in the rotation and don’t have any peas. Millet could be a good idea given the time of year, but never had much success with it in game covers. Linseed works well here, as does buckwheat. The plan was to blend the...

I have 340ha of land I manage which has been archaeological trenched through the autumn/winter. I planted a cover after harvest which has done a great job of keeping the excavators from making too much mess, but the land will need leveling and then loosening to get it right. The issue is the...

Thanks for that. A lot of growth!

@Wigeon , Out of interest when was this planted? Many Thanks

Seems very heavy. Lexion 770 10.5m cut normally uses 20ltr/ha, this year 23 ltr/ha chopping the straw. There is a lot of straw this year hence the increase.

There is a roller at the back

It works fine in nice short stuff but hates any volume. The handbook says to cut it twice at right angles, not much use when the margins are 6m wide…

I have watched Farmer Phil, he is just cutting a few rushes. We are doing 2km/hr when with the old rhino 9 we would do 5km/hr. For some reason it is pushing the grass under the roller rather than over it.

We have a 3m cyclone with 4 rotors on a front linkage topping environmental strips. In the thick going we are down to 2km/hr only because it is sending the cut material under the rear roller. What are we doing wrong??

Earlier in the week