Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

steveR

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Yale

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Livestock Farmer
Roundupped the grass off, or leaving it to act as a surface for teh stock?
Sprayed off with Roundup last Thursday and drilled today.

I was a bit apprehensive about diamond pattern drilling twice however it worked reasonably well.

Biggest problem was the undulations especially old hedge banks which were removed however never properly flattened.

Hydraulic top link helped a lot.
 
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CornishTone

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BASIS
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Cornwall
Can't complain about the seed depth to be honest, it's very good on a mzuri. The top photo was drilled in the rain and I had to adjust depth due to soil sticking to the press wheels. Given the following three weeks of weather, I drilled it too deep in hindsight and it took a very long time to emerge. I was expecting this dry spell to come earlier which will teach me for paying attention to the weather prediction models.

Seed spacing is fine for us as we are used to drilling maize with a cereal drill. It does bunch but to be expected. They do offer singulation as an expensive option. We have the slightly older, mushroom style distribution head which will send the seed more down certain pipes if you are on a steep enough slope.

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Yes, we deliberately drilled fairly deep as it went in very dry and we could see a couple weeks of cold/wet weather on the horizon, so no rush for it to come up, turn yellow and look miserable. As it happened it stayed cold and wet for the best part of a month, so still came up and turned yellow and looked miserable! I think the modification to the coulter on the DTS has meant that some seed has gone to the side and stayed at the correct depth and some has just fallen into the slot slightly and so, going a bit deeper, has taken a bit longer to come up. Looking at it now, it looks very similar to yours in terms of bunching up, so that's reassured me a bit.
 

CornishTone

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Cornwall
DTS drilled maize knee high by the 1st of July!
Looks a bit untidy compared to precision drilled stuff but I don't think it looks too bad considering.
 

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Real Straight shooter

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Hi after a lot of looking at different posts on The Farming Forum that have been a massive help and given me the amthusiasm we bought a Claydon SR I really like the idear of feeding up the livestock and then managing to drill 50/60 ac ..... we are up in the hills of North Yorkshire not many people DD round here so it’s a bit of a punt but this is my fist effort Fodder rape into grass on the fist of June (we have had plenty of rain up here so good growing conditions)
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Yale

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Hi after a lot of looking at different posts on The Farming Forum that have been a massive help and given me the amthusiasm we bought a Claydon SR I really like the idear of feeding up the livestock and then managing to drill 50/60 ac ..... we are up in the hills of North Yorkshire not many people DD round here so it’s a bit of a punt but this is my fist effort Fodder rape into grass on the fist of June (we have had plenty of rain up here so good growing conditions)
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Did you just go into an old ley after grazing down?
 

Yale

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It was an old lay not been reseeded for year, It was grazed right down had 1 dose of roundup and mucked , the grass and clover has grown back. I put some slug pellets on and sprayed it once for flea beetle.

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Do you think the roundup did a poor job?

I‘ve had grass grow back in the past however seems to be more to do with the following weather as in warm and wet which seems to assist regrowth.

This year after roundup June with us was dry and the grass has died off better because of that it seems.

I used a better quality glyphosate also which apparently has better wetters.

Sometimes hard water needs an additive to soften to help it work.
 

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
Do you think the roundup did a poor job?

I‘ve had grass grow back in the past however seems to be more to do with the following weather as in warm and wet which seems to assist regrowth.

This year after roundup June with us was dry and the grass has died off better because of that it seems.

I used a better quality glyphosate also which apparently has better wetters.

Sometimes hard water needs an additive to soften to help it work.
What rate are you going in with roundup and is there plenty of green growth
 

Yale

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Livestock Farmer
This field was a short term ley which was ploughed and cultivated to level the historic mole hills etc.

Three years on and it is burnt out so a burn off with Kyleo to punch out the docks and grass then twice over with the drill with a new long term ley,’diamond pattern drilled’.

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