- Location
- Lincolnshire
Rent out for spuds. Sit back, slippers on, light pipe. Didn't you get a fair bit of wheat in behind the plough?
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- Thread starter Adeptandy
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Rent out for spuds. Sit back, slippers on, light pipe. Didn't you get a fair bit of wheat in behind the plough?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Have you checked the pH? Both beans and barley seriously dislike low pH. How does that work on peat? I have no experience of farming peat but just wondered.
What are things like compaction wise? You say its peat but some of it looks a bit sticky.
How heavy is your drilling tractor?
I like my unidrill and dont think I could have bettered the situation using any other drill this spring. It works well on ploughing.
Given that your cultivated land has grown away better, it would tell me the surface was too sad and tight for direct drilling.
Be aware though, that direct drilled crops get away slower but often yield better than initially lush conventionally grown crops. We are growing seed, not silage.
My heaviest land needs to left rough but level over winter if spring direct drilling is to stand any chance of sucess. I have learned that much.
My direct drilled cereals have sat still for weeks but have really moved now things have warmed up. If we had water to sustain them, all would be well.
What are things like compaction wise? You say its peat but some of it looks a bit sticky.
How heavy is your drilling tractor?
I like my unidrill and dont think I could have bettered the situation using any other drill this spring. It works well on ploughing.
Given that your cultivated land has grown away better, it would tell me the surface was too sad and tight for direct drilling.
Be aware though, that direct drilled crops get away slower but often yield better than initially lush conventionally grown crops. We are growing seed, not silage.
My heaviest land needs to left rough but level over winter if spring direct drilling is to stand any chance of sucess. I have learned that much.
My direct drilled cereals have sat still for weeks but have really moved now things have warmed up. If we had water to sustain them, all would be well.
you will know your land better then anyone else, my guess is the land you went through with the patriot will be a lot less compact especially after the winter we had and has allowed the roots to find moisture far easier, have you dug down to see what the roots are like and how compact the soil is. Some crops around here that are either min tilled or dd look shocking, just don't see how after the winter we have had that dd into horribly slumped clay soil can expect to do any good. This year is one to forget however you plant your crops but for me I wouldn't sell the patriot or the vaddy just yet.
Not every year it won't
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
This year I have drilled deeper and travelled slower because it was so dry and rolled
I use avadex so also need to be deep enough
I have found that the first couple of years of direct drilling on a field is more difficult to time it right
With spring barley n needs to be on a couple of weeks before drilling
This year catching rain after fertiliser has made a big difference
with spring beans it can be harder to get them deep enough especially where there is little ground cover
Notill crops often never look as good as cultivated crops on a side by side comparison
the exception if the cultivation looses moisture and it stays dry
I use avadex so also need to be deep enough
I have found that the first couple of years of direct drilling on a field is more difficult to time it right
With spring barley n needs to be on a couple of weeks before drilling
This year catching rain after fertiliser has made a big difference
with spring beans it can be harder to get them deep enough especially where there is little ground cover
Notill crops often never look as good as cultivated crops on a side by side comparison
the exception if the cultivation looses moisture and it stays dry
Cant sublet, council farm, and yes, 60% W Wheat planned went in, but 40% that was drilled hasn't done well, very thin and full of BG
Philip Hedeng
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- Location
- Halmstad, Sweden
This spring, as every other spring here, it's vital to place fertiliser at drilling. There are huge benefits for spring crops to have quick access to N and P. Combi drilling is the most common practice in Sweden, regardless of system and I don't understand why so few other european farmers use this. True, we have colder soils in the spring, but especially in a no-till environment there are often negative factors to compensate for, like temperature and N lock up from residue break down.
YELROM
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
I did the same with a 5ha field.
We drilled spring barley into wheat volunteers and sprayed post drilling
Its some of our better land and i though it would of kept the moisture in and done well but instead its our worst crop
H.Jackson
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- Location
- West Sussex
Grazing before a cereal in the spring helps usually needs a pass with the carrier, poaching, by the look of the crop this year we've stored a lot of water this way.
Beans drilled into green covers 3.5 inches deep have all come well plenty of flowers might even get above waist high now we've finally had a rain.
Beans drilled into green covers 3.5 inches deep have all come well plenty of flowers might even get above waist high now we've finally had a rain.