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Building resilience in heavy soils
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<blockquote data-quote="Spud" data-source="post: 7233829" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>You're not on your own!</p><p></p><p>Do you grow barley? Early start to harvest to get some cover crops sown pre direct drilled spring break crops </p><p></p><p>Dont drill cover crops too thick or land won't dry and weeds won't grow. More happens below ground than above (especially in a year like this)</p><p></p><p>Any call for vining peas in your area? Plenty chance for a cc, then an early pea harvest and good entry for wheat</p><p></p><p>DD winter beans and wheat after beans have been the most reliable for me, and spring oats after a winter cc</p><p></p><p>Shallow worked soil dries faster than deep worked soil</p><p></p><p>Any call for silage grass in your area, for cows or AD? 2yr ley?</p><p></p><p>Lighter kit sinks less than heavy kit - a big combine running faster forward speeds with a 25' header instead of slower with 30' sinks less</p><p></p><p>My heavy land (We have a kiln on the farm from the days when it produced drainage tiles for the local area, if that gives an indication of soil type!) grows WW, WW, w beans (more reliable than springs and I can use Kerbflow to control bg) ww, ww, muck, cover crop, spring milling oats. If my storage facilitated it, I'd have 3 breaks and 3 wheats, but for now the second wheats are ok. Currently direct drill the oats, beans, wheat after the beans, and the cover. Wheat after oats this time was shallow cultivated then drilled - slowly, land is improving.</p><p></p><p>Lighter land is Potatoes, wheat (shakerator combi), w barley (ploughed, mostly due to wheat volunteers in the barley), cc, (sometimes turnips for sheep grazing) muck, sugar beet, seed oats, wheat, w barley, cc, muck, back to spuds. If wild oats dictate, spring barley will replace seed oats, which are then followed by winter barley not wheat - its also a good option if situations dictate that there are less root crops in any given year. Seed oats occasionally after spuds (like this last season.... Lots of changes in establishment across this lot over the years, but your situation sounds like its heavier land, so not really relevant?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spud, post: 7233829, member: 78"] You're not on your own! Do you grow barley? Early start to harvest to get some cover crops sown pre direct drilled spring break crops Dont drill cover crops too thick or land won't dry and weeds won't grow. More happens below ground than above (especially in a year like this) Any call for vining peas in your area? Plenty chance for a cc, then an early pea harvest and good entry for wheat DD winter beans and wheat after beans have been the most reliable for me, and spring oats after a winter cc Shallow worked soil dries faster than deep worked soil Any call for silage grass in your area, for cows or AD? 2yr ley? Lighter kit sinks less than heavy kit - a big combine running faster forward speeds with a 25' header instead of slower with 30' sinks less My heavy land (We have a kiln on the farm from the days when it produced drainage tiles for the local area, if that gives an indication of soil type!) grows WW, WW, w beans (more reliable than springs and I can use Kerbflow to control bg) ww, ww, muck, cover crop, spring milling oats. If my storage facilitated it, I'd have 3 breaks and 3 wheats, but for now the second wheats are ok. Currently direct drill the oats, beans, wheat after the beans, and the cover. Wheat after oats this time was shallow cultivated then drilled - slowly, land is improving. Lighter land is Potatoes, wheat (shakerator combi), w barley (ploughed, mostly due to wheat volunteers in the barley), cc, (sometimes turnips for sheep grazing) muck, sugar beet, seed oats, wheat, w barley, cc, muck, back to spuds. If wild oats dictate, spring barley will replace seed oats, which are then followed by winter barley not wheat - its also a good option if situations dictate that there are less root crops in any given year. Seed oats occasionally after spuds (like this last season.... Lots of changes in establishment across this lot over the years, but your situation sounds like its heavier land, so not really relevant? [/QUOTE]
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