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It is not, thankfully. Also the slurry was long enough ago that I'd consider it an application to a cover crop for grazing, than the peas themselves.

I considered it, but the compaction this spring would have been too much. If you're near the Taunton area I've got some similar rye in front of maize for sale, drop me a PM!

The rye was just a cover crop after maize, sprayed it off a couple of days before drilling

Finally getting the peas in today, seedbed is ok-ish but still a bit of an open slot. It's pulling very hard after this winter, and the soil is a bit capped after umbilical slurry. Drilling here into rye after maize.

LD subsoiler as soon as it dries out, then drill a big cover crop by the end of May. Using a tine drill if it's crusty. Sunflowers, radish, millet, rye, beans, etc. If you want to spend more you could add something more exotic like sorghum-sudangrass. The plan is to make cracks and fill them...

Kyleo will nuke them and any other troublesome BLWs. Be aware of label restrictions for following crops

Re-bushed it and replaced some pins last year, and it should be good for another 10 years at least. Cost about £4k + 1 man for 2 weeks. It's a 1992? machine and it's been re-bushed 3 times I think. A very reliable drill and I would be buying another if I wasn't about to spaff 100k on a Horizon.

Plenty of very reasonably priced Amazone Primeras on Agriaffaires at the moment.

This mornings project: Custom seeding discs. I need to make up some pumpkin discs ready for spring, but I also made OSR discs last autumn with the same method. Genuine seeding discs are about £80 each from Kuhn, so over 10 rows that gave me a nice budget to play with. I had my designs laser...

How did you keep the air out of the fire to make charcoal?

Same sort of price with these guys - Anyone come across Onnu before? https://onnubiochar.com/collections/biochar-for-agriculture It wouldn't work for broadacre use at this price but it might be interesting to put 50kg down the slot at drilling, or mix a few tonnes into a muck heap?

So I thought I'd post my adventures in pimping my Kuhn maize drill for the upcoming season. I use the drill for maize, pumpkins and OSR, where I run ahead with a subsoiler and follow down the lines with the drill. Sort of like strip-till but not quite. I'd like to use it in a truly no-till...

Never had an issue in the tank with it. 4L Kyleo will definitely nail them quickly, but I've found it's overkill on the 2,4-D a lot of the time. I think you only need enough to put the weed on the 'back foot' and then the glypho will finish the job eventually. Kyleo has a great wetter package...

I normally use 1.5 or 2L Kyleo and then topup the grams of glyphosate with 1 or 2L generic 360. Does RBWH and cranesbill well here. I use the higher rate if it's colder or the plants are bigger.

Round two. At least the fags are legal this time :ROFLMAO:

Second year, I grew 3ha last harvest for seed and have about 20ha this year. It's super clean and vigorous, I really like it. Yielded the same as everything else last year. It seems to like getting its N earlier in the season, and you can probably get away with £50 of fungicide if you're feeling...

End of an era after 25 years! :cry: New toy coming soon...

Catch crop was: Buckwheat Phacelia Sunflower Millet Linseed Drilled through the covers with a Kuhn SD4000, the pea stubbles were done with the Amazone Primera

Considering how crap it's looked all winter, this wheat has no right looking this good. All drilled 16/17 Oct, on top of the Quantocks so it started on the back foot. Applied 50kgN as urea on Feb 5th Mayflower after OSR & catch crop Redwald after the same Champion after peas Olympus after...

Spreading some urea the last week, at the end I found an empty fag packet and a nice stainless bolt. Anyone else seen any random stuff in their fert?