Wheat drilling 2020

Fish

Member
Location
North yorkshire
Well we would have been down to only 25 acres if JD hadn't fancied a rest, so we only had one drill running yesterday. So we are down to 75 acres wheat and the beans,
I'll switch the horsch over to beans now as remaining wheat is either after linseed/peas or drilling on 'the green', which only the JD can do.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
couldnt sow or do anything on the land yesterday due to a shower or 3 during the night and a heavy mist/dew .So far this morning seem to have missed the heaviest rain but doesnt bode well for this afternoon, dont know wether the rainfall radar is a good or bad idea it seems to be building my stress levels more than it eases them!!!!
We are at the 75% autumn sowing target inc osr wb done with mainly 2nd or longer ww to go ,will need a couple of dry days to get on some ploughed but it is mostly on kinder land and is about a third of whats left the rest is in stubble. That we have sown has gone in well other than an odd patch/corner but nothing has been rolled as am wary of a deluge followed by constant wet as happened last year before emergence when seedlings drowned, reckon we need 4 good long days with at least a couple of drying ones first,we are in front of last year so concerned but not yet panicking ,it could /should still be possible to get sown up by our target date 15th-20th oct with most in before the 10th. Im operating under the glass half full mode and am along with the folks here going to have a well earned weekend of doing as little or bugger all work other than the essentials as ive not had 2 days off in a row since june If it had been non covid times would have whisked mrs 4 course away to some luxury spa

Got over 100 acres drilled yesterday. Some wasn’t pretty in the wet holes but glad to have got what was worked up before this rain. Around 800 acres to drill still but got a 6m Rapid and 2 x 4m combi drills to do it with.
 
Location
N Yorks
Got over 100 acres drilled yesterday. Some wasn’t pretty in the wet holes but glad to have got what was worked up before this rain. Around 800 acres to drill still but got a 6m Rapid and 2 x 4m combi drills to do it with.
Did 240 acres from Tuesday sunrise to Wednesday 8am. Full night shift to get cultivated land done before the rain came.
could have carried on through what rain we ended up with onto stubbles but spent a bleary eyed day with the vet

its dawned on me that cultivating soil makes it very prone to the weather
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Does it not bother you that you are back to ploughing and cultivating?
Or is it a work in progress?

Not at all. I needed a move and I see opportunities here for improvement. This method of establishing crops works here, whatever questions that raises about sustainability etc. If I was relying on DD into heavy clay soils, we wouldn’t have sown much in the last couple of weeks and that’s not very sustainable. Not getting many winter crops sown last year cost several 0s but that was because it went from too dry & wanting a shower to soften it up to a period of rain that lasted 6 months. Horses for courses.

They did put in 53 ac of spring beans with a local contractor’s Mzuri that produced just as good a net margin as the plough + power harrow + Rapid drilled crops.
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Anyone pondered whether you can overyear overyeared seed yet?
I’m down to my last 3/4t of Orwell wb and 1t of lili ww 2019 seed to get in, then there’s just the other 14t of 2020 seed left to put in the ground. Not looking to promising at the moment though 🤦‍♂️
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