Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Not really if I'm honest, nor for winter crops for that matter. Yes, 25cms. I expect there are some varieties that would be better than others, but I haven't been doing it long enough to find out. Only do bits with it as a cheap and cheerful experiment drill. Works well for rape though

Claydon are 33 cm but you do get more banding which reduces the inter row gap down to around 25cm. I'm happy with winter crops as they have more time to tiller out & NIAB TAB work showed no yield drop up to 25 cm. My concern is a dry and late spring for spring barley where the crop doesn't fill the gaps in, wasting sunlight that hits the ground weeds & won't be turned into yield of malt/flour etc. In theory it ought to change canopy management thinking for pgrs and fungicides.:scratchhead:

If you'd gone with Dutch openers you'd have a big selection of seed widths. Spaldings now sell them.
 

Fish

Member
Location
North yorkshire
2 photos taken today
Top- peas, just starting to show themselves
Bottom- s barley, drilled 4 weeks ago.
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pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Not a good picture and only just through, but a good spread of plants from this we put in with a Horsch c04 and 5 inch Dutch openers
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Claydon are 33 cm but you do get more banding which reduces the inter row gap down to around 25cm. I'm happy with winter crops as they have more time to tiller out & NIAB TAB work showed no yield drop up to 25 cm. My concern is a dry and late spring for spring barley where the crop doesn't fill the gaps in, wasting sunlight that hits the ground weeds & won't be turned into yield of malt/flour etc. In theory it ought to change canopy management thinking for pgrs and fungicides.:scratchhead:

If you'd gone with Dutch openers you'd have a big selection of seed widths. Spaldings now sell them.
 

Will7

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This is my first attempt. Not true dd as had a pass with a ld subsoiler in the autumn and then Cambridge rolled. Drilled 3 March with 100kg Dap. Had some zinc and manganese last week and 60kgN but no rain since...

The last picture is concerning on heavy land
 

Badshot

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Location
Kent
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This is my first attempt. Not true dd as had a pass with a ld subsoiler in the autumn and then Cambridge rolled. Drilled 3 March with 100kg Dap. Had some zinc and manganese last week and 60kgN but no rain since...

The last picture is concerning on heavy land
Why the concern about the last picture?
My ground inevitably cracks wide open (whole hand swallowing cracks a metre plus deep) . Doesn't seem to affect the crop really.
 

Fuzzy

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Why the concern about the last picture?
My ground inevitably cracks wide open (whole hand swallowing cracks a metre plus deep) . Doesn't seem to affect the crop really.
I think we all know if we don't get significant rain in the next couple of weeks harvest will be bad. Cracks like those appearing in April is a bad sign imo.
 

Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
Dry winter, followed by dry spring means good deep roots.
On heavy land those cracks shouldn't be an issue.
Sand I'd be worried, but that doesn't crack.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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