Sandy
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No stopped letting for them 8 years ago they just destroyed the soil in a normal usually wet year up here@Sandy do you have Tatties on your land?
No stopped letting for them 8 years ago they just destroyed the soil in a normal usually wet year up here@Sandy do you have Tatties on your land?
Is it possible to switch from a plough/combi drill to no till crop establishment or are you better doing min till for a couple o years. Were in the NE of Scotland with hardly anyone using no till, there is a couple min till but they are few and far between. Soil type is loam no clay mainly spring barley cover crops will be sown after next harvest
What drill do you use with a Sumo?We went from plough to min till using a Sumo Trio and the soil structure has improved significantly from that alone, this has been done for 5 years and we are starting DD using a disk drill. I don't think we could have gone straight to no-till without the improvement to soil structure that min-till has brought.
Is that because all DD strip till crops look backwards till June or from a combine yield meter point of viewDon't really want a claydon after seeing the crops from one I've seen I think some form of a deeper tine in front of the seed to take all the compaction that we have at the moment
No nothing much up here either just the usual osr subsoiler set ups etc but can see the strip till method working well but maybe in a rotational ploughing set up, we do ourselves no favours IMO with too much traffic in some fields working in the wet etc drainage and compaction is our enemy. I notice @Clive saying if you put a tine in deep you are doing no good but in our soils and wet weather I think we need to be able to do that occasionally. Much as I hate ploughing commercially they are a dependable option and not as dear as some think compared to multiple passes with other implements but I keep looking and Claydon would be up here in a moment to demonstrate if askedNo not going down too much on with this frosty weather, I would like a demo of a no till strip till drill but we're to far north to get one, my other problem is the plough / combi drill I have has a combined value of £12k and works between 750- 800 acre. It works very well and I know it will grow and be a good crop is there many up you're way @Zebbedee
Maybe just need to get on with it and try were all spring cropping with a lot of muck to spread were nvz and I'm sure it's got to be incorporated within a certain time period.
Using a soil conditioning crop like Beans or rape is a good way to get started at no tillThe very first field we no tilled (Spring beans), was ploughed for the previous crop, wheat.
The beans were established by a neighbour using a simtec, it worked so well, we bought a no-till drill that Autumn and never went back to cultivation.