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100% spring cropping
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<blockquote data-quote="yellow belly" data-source="post: 6571794" data-attributes="member: 305"><p>in 2013 after 2012 autumn </p><p>half the wheat ( slugs and pre em and black grass ) and all the winter rape failed </p><p>planted for most of april 2013 </p><p>spring barley did better than some of the wheat that was left and spring rape out yielded winter spring linseed into choped straw never again </p><p> spring beans produced the best margin </p><p> on heavy land </p><p>spring crops need half the imputs to winter and in the longer run reduce the winter crops herbicide costs on top of needing a lot less drilling and spraying capacity reducing capital requirement </p><p></p><p>lessons learnt </p><p>a layer of chopped straw helps prevent the top drying out it is not possible to plant all the crops in a 3 day window </p><p>patience always pays drilling early when it is not quiet fit is worse than drilling 2 weeks later </p><p>mole drain close to drilling just before or just after (twin leg ) 1/3 less power and fuel compared to autumn</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellow belly, post: 6571794, member: 305"] in 2013 after 2012 autumn half the wheat ( slugs and pre em and black grass ) and all the winter rape failed planted for most of april 2013 spring barley did better than some of the wheat that was left and spring rape out yielded winter spring linseed into choped straw never again spring beans produced the best margin on heavy land spring crops need half the imputs to winter and in the longer run reduce the winter crops herbicide costs on top of needing a lot less drilling and spraying capacity reducing capital requirement lessons learnt a layer of chopped straw helps prevent the top drying out it is not possible to plant all the crops in a 3 day window patience always pays drilling early when it is not quiet fit is worse than drilling 2 weeks later mole drain close to drilling just before or just after (twin leg ) 1/3 less power and fuel compared to autumn [/QUOTE]
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