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Splash plate seeding width, grass seed.
I have a stocks seeder thing that blows seed down 8 pipes onto splash plates. I’ve used it with osr across 3 m successfully. It can handle grass seed (rye grass) but how wide apart can I set the splash plates? Will 8 plates cover 4 metres evenly with grass seed? Anybody tried it? -
Reseeding Question
As I have done for a few years now, I sprayed off a grass field and direct drilled in a forage brassica mix. What I normally do once it's grazed off is, leave it a few weeks and spray glyphosate. Once that's had enough time to work I disc it, sow straight away and roll. This year I am planning...- scrubbuster
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Farmer View: Oil Radish and Wildlife
Author: Nicholas Watts, Vinehouse Farm Over my lifetime, I have seen the invertebrates in our Fenland soil gradually disappear. Carabid beetles, millipedes, centipedes and springtails have all disappeared. Worms are still with us, but not in the numbers they used to be. Only slugs have been able...- TFF
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2023 Wet thread #1
155mm here in March, so far. Agronomy now facing an unfortunate combination of surface waterlogging and subsoil moisture deficiency, with current root death likely to restrict scarce moisture uptake later on. Combining that with last autumn's much higher cost base and next harvest's lower...- bankrupt
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Combination cultivators - trio etc
I was always taught to work heavy land from the top down- I.e discs first, then a leg. Why do all these machines have the legs first? Probably easier on the tractor than having then further back I suppose, if mounted. Just seems a bit sub-optimal to me. -
Focus: How does tillage equipment interact with soils?
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Lemken and the farming consultancy, Agrii, have jointly developed trials to assess how tillage equipment interacts with soils. Agrii agronomist, Dave Felce spoke a recent Lemken-hosted farm workshop in north Antrim. He explained that one of the first...- Agriland RSS
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Direct drilling CS options
We've got a load of CS options going in this summer, various grasses, bird feed, bumblee bee mix. All the land it's going in will be in stubble after this year's harvest. Any thoughts on DD all the options straight into the existing stubble? I'm quite keen to try ... any reasons why you...- Overby
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Spring Whole crop mix
When should such a mix be drilled? Planning on trying some for the first time this year, spoke to the agronomist about it a couple of months back and thought the job was sorted. When he rolled up here about 3 weeks ago, turned out it wasn’t. Ordered and still hasn’t rolled up, spray to burn the...- Tarw Coch
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Spring drilling 2023
How are people getting on now we are paying for a dry Jan/Feb? Spring barley drilled 2 weeks ago, not through yet. Drilled this first as on heavy ground which we managed to muck in Feb but no ploughing and it went in well. Some spring beans drilled 10 days ago and had another go this afternoon...- JCfarmer
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Beet 23
Since its 1st March tomorrow, thought I'd start the next year's worth of sugar beet fun and games 🤦♂️ @Breckland Boy have you started....or finished!! drilling yet?- carbonfibre farmer
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organics and how others see it
I was talking to a farmer in India, he the owner of a large estate would never get too closely involved with work on the ground as they have staff for everything I was talking to him about his rose garden, which was superb. Knowing as I do ( my wife has a large collection) the difficulties of...- Exfarmer
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Making the transition
Download PDF When it comes to adopting agroecological principles, the destination may be the same but the journey there is different for everyone. CPM attends Hutchinsons’ inaugural Agroecology conference to hear perspectives on how to plan the route. By Lucy de la Pasture As the UK’s largest...- TFF
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Failed OSR thats had Astrokerb
What have others successfully grown when OSR has failed after receiving Astrokerb? Would cultivation be better than DD?- Neddy flanders
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Slugs sought for feeding trials
Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine A farmer-led research project exploring new ways to manage slug damage is seeking ‘Slug Scouts’ who will trap and send in slugs for feeding studies. Farmers across the UK are being encouraged to capture grey field slugs and send them in to John...- CPM RSS
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Strip till or direct drilling with a tight rotation
Looking for some advice on the following please. How would strip tillage, ie using a Claydon, Sumo DTS, McConnell seedaerator type drill vs a more low disturbance type of drill such as a Sky Easydrill work with the following type of rotation Growing wheat and winter/spring oats (as we have...- Deere 6430
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PLOUGH 2.0 '23
just a little thought about a protest for livestock farmers re sfi discrimination IIRC you can plough 2 ha of pp without issue I presume in subsequent years you could put that land into arable options? @Janet Hughes Defra ? kinda symbolic petition...perhaps BFU would be interested? I'd...- spin cycle
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Grassland overseed
Have several fields where leys are starting to get tired, I would like to perk them up a bit. Would prefer not to plough out, how successful would hammering with grass harrows in September and chucking seed on? I do realize weather would be dependent. Any downfalls? Tia.- Overrun
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Direct/zero tilling without glyphosate, is it possible?
As above. I mention glyphosate but surely their must be a comparable, chemical, under development to succeed it ,as should it ever get banned worldwide,the market for a comparable is huge.- Pilatus
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Stubble Turnips
Whats the earliest anyone has sown , got someone after a fast crop I'm the spring- Derrick Hughes
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