How do you establish your combinable crops ?

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Cowcorn

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Mixed Farmer

Location

East meath/dublin

• Jul 16, 2019

• #21

Plough nearly everything . Sometimes after rape or beans a pigtail harrow and then drill . Would like to try dd but on a small acreage you need a very good reason to invest money in an expensive new system . Plough based system is delivering excellent yields and keeps grass weeds under control .

 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Wiltshire

• Jul 17, 2019

• #22

Clive said:

The question / poll is how do you establish the majority of acres on your farm

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Without using a calculator in the last year near enough 50 50 ploughing and min till for harvested crops. Cover crops direct drilled.

Some years I direct drill after maize.

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Michael3112

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• Jul 17, 2019

• #23

We are min till but only one cultivation pass these days an with a move to a lot more catch crops and cover crops starting to lean towards going down lds subsoiler route an direct drilling

 

Badshot

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Location

Kent

• Jul 17, 2019

• #24

For most farms you really need some sort of breakdown, acres planted using each method.
You could have a 10 acre farmer ploughing for veg, and a 10000 acre farmer mintill, 500 acre guy doing a bit of everything.

You'll get a total acreage and true percentage then, rather than a show of hands.

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jul 17, 2019

• #25

Badshot said:

For most farms you really need some sort of breakdown, acres planted using each method.
You could have a 10 acre farmer ploughing for veg, and a 10000 acre farmer mintill, 500 acre guy doing a bit of everything.

You'll get a total acreage and true percentage then, rather than a show of hands.

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Ideally yes but asking simple questions is ......... simpler !

 

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Suffolk Serf

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Location

Bury/Thetford

• Jul 17, 2019

• #26

That’s a nice simple survey. How about repeating it annually to see what the trend is and the rate of change?

 

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fudge

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire.

• Jul 17, 2019

• #27

Clive said:

Ideally yes but asking simple questions is ......... simpler !

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Over simplification is misleading. I don’t understand why categorizing farms by cultivation technique is useful. Especially when most people use a range of methods.

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jul 17, 2019

• #28

fudge said:

Over simplification is misleading. I don’t understand why categorizing farms by cultivation technique is useful. Especially when most people use a range of methods.

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its not supposed to be useful - its just interesting to ask

If I asked how exactly many acres did you established using the various listed establishments methods last year then 99% of people (myself inc couldn't be bothered answering and maybe in many case don't even know the exact answer and the response form would be both complex and need processing to report any results ........................ and even then someone would find a reason why it wasnt valid !

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jul 17, 2019

• #29

Suffolk Serf said:

That’s a nice simple survey. How about repeating it annually to see what the trend is and the rate of change?

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^ this ! - I think you have to keep it simple (maybe overly simple sometimes) to get anything from it

as you say if the same question was asked again next year and over several years you could see it the was any trend towards or away from any particular method

 

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Suffolk Serf

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Location

Bury/Thetford

• Jul 17, 2019

• #30

Clive said:

^ this ! - I think you have to keep it simple (maybe overly simple sometimes) to get anything from it

as you say if the same question was asked again next year and over several years you could see it the was any trend towards or away from any particular method

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It takes a pig farmer to state the bleeding obvious!

 

kmo

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Location

E. Wales

• Jul 17, 2019

• #31

Half ploughed, for wheat after spring oats. (bury stubbles, break tramlines up a bit )
Half scratch till, spring oats after scratch till mustard, (no stubbles to bury)

 

Poncherello1976

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Oxfordshire

• Jul 17, 2019

• #32

Rotational ploughing for our Peas. Everything else is Min-till

 

fingermouse

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Arable Farmer

Location

cheshire

• Jul 17, 2019

• #33

Majority all ploughed and combination drilled except osr that’s subsoiled and tickled in on top with combi and if dry enough after spuds we only subsoil and combi
Works for us

 

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Beefsmith

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• Jul 17, 2019

• #34

We use plough, min till and direct equally so need to multiple vote.

 

yellow belly

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Location

south west lincolnshire

• Jul 17, 2019

• #35

could ask same survey for 5 years ago to get a trend

 

Bobthebuilder

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Mixed Farmer

Location

northumberland

• Jul 17, 2019

• #36

plough the most but also quite a bit of min till depending on rotation, white crop to green crop is min tilled, white crop to white crop is ploughed apart from 30ac which is min tilled, green crop to white crop is min tilled

 

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JimAndy

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Mixed Farmer

• Jul 18, 2019

• #37

Still Ploughing but hope to change my system in the next few years

 

Dave b

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Arable Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Jul 18, 2019

• #38

Direct

 

JCfarmer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

warks

• Jul 18, 2019

• #39

Dave b said:

Direct

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Very Direct infact

 

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Suffolk Serf

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Location

Bury/Thetford

• Jul 18, 2019

• #40

My fat hen cover crop was established by the "no drill" method that I wish that i'd invented.