Very happy with the way autumn drilled cereals are looking drilled with the DTS (Weaving tine drilled into ploughed land a different matter in places!!), there were a few slugs about in November but a dose of Sluxx on affected fields has kept them at bay, another year and a wetter Oct, Nov, Dec and it might be a bit more of an issue but hopefully one i can keep on top of with the straw rake and timely applications of good pellets. My DTS drilled OSR looks pretty rubbish honestly, drilled 70ac, written off 45ac. I don't believe it's any fault of the drill as it put the seed into what small amount of moisture was there at the time of drilling, the problem was the juvenile slugs underground eating seeds (not coming to the surface to eat slug pellets!) and the lack of rainfall for 3 weeks after drilling and beyond (65mm in total for Aug, Sept and Oct here) that pretty much wrote off a lot of crops in this area. If we had cultivated or ploughed we would have lost all the moisture, if we had baled the straw again we would have lost a lot more moisture than we did anyway. I think if we try again next year (undecided atm) we will go with a conventional variety at a higher seed rate, liquid fert down with the seed and slug pellets with the seed as well, roll twice if necessary and wait until we know its going to rain rather than just drill because of the date! Spring crops a little way off being drilled yet, Must...Be...Patient!!!
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How deep have you got the coulters?
pretty much in the deepest hole then.
T1 later this week.
Should be proud, all your crops are looking top class.
Thanks, W Barley, 2nd Wheats and S barley all looking decent this year, most of the 1st wheats look ok though got a few very thin patches due to dry clods at drilling and slugs post drilling (ploughed land and not drilled with the DTS though). OSR was a disaster but not really the drills fault as everybodys acreage in this area was near enough a write off though we do still have 25 acres out of the 70 we drilled but not expecting much more than 1t/ac. Majority of the S Beans are looking ok but those drilled a bit later into slightly heavier ground are suffering a bit from lack of moisture and not the greatest seedbeds. As per many others most things could do with a drink now, anything drilled direct into stubble is holding up better than ploughed stuff.
Up an through now,Spring 2017
Well today it's beans into sprayed off overwintered stubble and the first outing for the Case Puma 150
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