Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
It is a mix of Phacelia and Buck Wheat.
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It is a mix of Phacelia and Buck Wheat.
Covers are doing so much better this year , soil is smelling like a greenhouse , unfortunately when these pictures were taken the worms were all in hibernation I'm sure they will be alive after the 30 mm rain fall on Thursday.
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Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
We've sown Graham after forage maize last Friday. Fantastic dry early harvesting conditions on very easy ground, would not normally consider no-till after conventionally established maize, I took a spade around the field to check for compaction(one trailer on super singles). Ok apart from a couple of small headlands we'll see how they go.
Hammer
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- Location
- South Norfolk
that is impressive
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Running in a mix of mungbeans & millet in an attempt to get any groundcover established on some bare fields following dryland cotton. Apart from the benefits to soil biology, desperately need cover in our environment to be able to hold & conserve soil moisture, rather than losing it all to evaporation
Have gone old school here using the tynes rather than a disc planter, as I'm crossing the old cotton rows & achieving a degree of soil levelling in the process
Have gone old school here using the tynes rather than a disc planter, as I'm crossing the old cotton rows & achieving a degree of soil levelling in the process
Have you had some rain now @Farmer Roy ? Using the cotton sticks as a levelling tool - doesn't it block up the harrow? What sort of cotton crop did you get?
Hammer
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- Location
- South Norfolk
Is that with the disc units or leading tine? Looks great
was done with the disc, we did a stale seedbed when the opportunity was there in the top inch with a discroller, had zero slug pellets after osr.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
@Brisel - cotton was all mulched & root cut ( as per regulatory requirements for insect resistance management ), so not that many sticks, just a few where the Mulcher had some issues 
Cotton was picked in April & I was always going to plant a mix of vetch & oats straight back into into, strip graze it with cattle till about now, then fallow it through ( to build up soil moisture ) to wheat / Durum next June.
Best laid plans if mice & men . . .
We didn't plant a single seed this autumn / winter, out of our whole program
Cotton ( dryland ) started out really well at planting last October, full moisture profile & ideal soil conditions, going into long fallow zero till wheat stubble. However, hottest, longest, driest summer on record - worst cotton I've grown. The heat really hammered it in Feb & it dropped a lot of flowers, squares & fruit. We also copped premature cracking of the bolls due to the heat. As a consequence, not only was yield down but fibre quality was severely effected, costing us a $90 / bale ( 225 kg of ginned cotton lint ) discounts. So, not a happy result.
I've explained it elsewhere, but the aim with this Mung / millet mix is just to try & get any groundcover established, to try & hold onto any subsequent moisture we may get. Adequate groundcover & moisture conservation is crucial to our dryland Cropping systems
As an indication of how dry it's been, this ground has not been sprayed or cultivated since cotton defoliation / picking / mulching / root cutting, back in April . . .
Cotton was picked in April & I was always going to plant a mix of vetch & oats straight back into into, strip graze it with cattle till about now, then fallow it through ( to build up soil moisture ) to wheat / Durum next June.
Best laid plans if mice & men . . .
We didn't plant a single seed this autumn / winter, out of our whole program
Cotton ( dryland ) started out really well at planting last October, full moisture profile & ideal soil conditions, going into long fallow zero till wheat stubble. However, hottest, longest, driest summer on record - worst cotton I've grown. The heat really hammered it in Feb & it dropped a lot of flowers, squares & fruit. We also copped premature cracking of the bolls due to the heat. As a consequence, not only was yield down but fibre quality was severely effected, costing us a $90 / bale ( 225 kg of ginned cotton lint ) discounts. So, not a happy result.
I've explained it elsewhere, but the aim with this Mung / millet mix is just to try & get any groundcover established, to try & hold onto any subsequent moisture we may get. Adequate groundcover & moisture conservation is crucial to our dryland Cropping systems
As an indication of how dry it's been, this ground has not been sprayed or cultivated since cotton defoliation / picking / mulching / root cutting, back in April . . .
- Location
- Worcestershire
Brisel
Your claydon drilled osr looks good ? Are you just ripping front leg through then droping seed out of the wide boot on top. ?
Thanks. Yes, 1” wide leading tine at 6” deep followed by a 7” A share and a splitter seed boot. The A share is barely touching the soil so effectively all it is doing is protecting the seed outlets. By the time the following paddles and harrow have filled the furrows left by the leading tines the seed still ended up an inch deep. Not a problem as it was into moisture and up in 4 days plus was away from the pre em herbicide.
Here’s the configuration of a Hybrid. Not dissimilar to your V drill apart from the following paddles & harrow. I use the A shares and splitter boot for osr unless really trashy in which case I swap the A shares for 3” spoons and remove the seed boot, just dropping the seed on the furrow bottom.
- Location
- CW5 Cheshire
Elgar off the heap, vertigo off the heap. (Sim-tec drill)
