2015 Sumo DTS Pictures/Blog

[green giant]

Wheat today @125kg/h into previously DTS oil seed rape, making a lovely job, plenty moisture after the rain we had on Saturday.

Today,

 

[mo!]

You must have had more rain up there than us! Our beans went in a couple of days later but no sign of them yet.

 

[green giant]

You must have had more rain up there than us! Our beans went in a couple of days later but no sign of them yet.

Pictures of two fields that are next to each other, they were a little damper than the last one I did that day, that field is just showing the old plant popping through.
We had some rain last week but bloody cold though, some sleet n hail.

 

[green giant]

From the office......

There in rows, it's very dry!

 

[ringer]

Fanfare spring beans sown with a DTS 3. After maize

 

[ringer]

Few more close up pictures of beans
I'll post pics of winter wheat this week where we trialled a Sumo DD alongside our DTS. Very impressive

 

[Shutesy]

Few pics from the last few days:
Propino S Barley into ploughed and powerharrowed land, 185kg/ha, drilled 16/3/17

Propino S Barley into topped and sprayed off cover crop, 200kg/ha, drilled 3/4/17

Vertigo S Beans into raked wheat stubble, 250kg/ha, drilled 17/3/17

Fuego S Beans into failed OSR that was wheat stubble, 240kg/ha, drilled 28/3/17

Belepi into wheat stubble, 165kg/ha, drilled 4/11/16


Could all do with a nice warm drink please!

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

Few pics from the last few days:
Propino S Barley into ploughed and powerharrowed land, 185kg/ha, drilled 16/3/17

Why plough and powerharrow?

 

[Shutesy]

Why plough and powerharrow?

Basically for 2 reasons, 1st one being last years spring barley was a disaster, got a few things wrong which resulted in a pretty pee poor yield overall, ploughed some overwinter for this spring so not all our eggs are in 1 basket, as it happens this years dry spring meant there's now no real difference between ploughed or strip-tilled into stubble spring barley apart from the fact that we could get onto the ploughed land 2 weeks earlier so that barley is 2 weeks ahead. The 2nd reason was a comparison of black-grass control between the two methods, can't really say whether there is much of a difference between the 2 methods yet but I'm sure the pre-em won't have worked so well across the board this spring because of the dry!

 

[green giant]

Spring 2017

Well today it's beans into sprayed off overwintered stubble and the first outing for the Case Puma 150 .

Nice calm night and I've never heard as many bees buzzing away in one place, quite therapeutic tbh.
Just an update to how things are coming along.

 

[green giant]

Something a little more challenging today, not a blockage in sight

And tonight,

 

[green giant]

Wheat today @125kg/h into previously DTS oil seed rape, making a lovely job, plenty moisture after the rain we had on Saturday.

10 months later,

 

[TelesnaAg]

spacing on the beans?

Ant...

 

[green giant]

spacing on the beans?

Ant...

Evening or Morning Ant, 33.3cm single outlet Dutch point.
The DTS works a treat in beans.

 

[green giant]

10 months later,

Just as the rain was starting before lunch today.

 

[green giant]

Nice calm night and I've never heard as many bees buzzing away in one place, quite therapeutic tbh.
Just an update to how things are coming along.

Today,

 

[green giant]

Something a little more challenging today, not a blockage in sight

And now,

 

[TelesnaAg]

@green giant - is there any notice of less fungicide needed on the wider spacings? cereals and beans?

Crops are nice...hope they are profitable

Ant...

 

[green giant]

@green giant - is there any notice of less fungicide needed on the wider spacings? cereals and beans?

Crops are nice...hope they are profitable

Ant...

I will ask customer his thoughts, I only drilled them for him, they mintill plough and dd.

 

[TelesnaAg]

I will ask customer his thoughts, I only drilled them for him, they mintill plough and dd.

Just be interesting to know...as i am only aiming for 6-7 t/ha in spring barley - wide rows might get me zero fungicide? last crop only had 1...none would be nice...

Ant...