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Cover crop pre direct drilled beet?
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<blockquote data-quote="Spud" data-source="post: 7016457" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>Maybe a crazy idea this.</p><p></p><p>I have a 12acre field coming beet, thats a bit more bodied than ideal. </p><p>Normal for us pre beet is to plough and press sometime between November and Feb, once muck has become available, spread, and ground conditions allow. Sometimes miss out the muck on the bodied land (put it on before the previous crop instead) to get it ploughed earlier. If we get a wet winter, early ploughed heavier land slumps, and is a pain to fettle in spring - an inch of tilth on top of soft but wet & sticky goo. It also means spring ploughing is late, so doesn't get enough weathering. Recent weather extremes have exacerbated this, so I'm reassesing the situation.</p><p></p><p>A wise man wouldn't grow beet in there. Lets overlook that bit for now!</p><p></p><p>Current thinking is to mintil drill a light barley & vetch cover in early September (its in spring wheat now, was mucked last year), spray off early, and drill the beet straight into the residue.</p><p></p><p>Beet drill is a Stanhay 592, 6 row. We have a low disturbance tool bar with a leading disc followed by an LD leg that we run in front of our Moore drill (mounted) that could carry the beet drill without too much modifying, but this might disturb too much clart underneath if its a wet spring.</p><p></p><p>We also have (York sale bargain) a genuine Stanhay crumbler bar (3 tines in front of a crumber wheel on individual parallel linkages in front of each row) that might be a better bet, possibly using a Cousins microlift tine instead of the three straight dutch harrow style tines in it currently) Not used it yet tbf.</p><p></p><p>Ideas/comments please?</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spud, post: 7016457, member: 78"] Maybe a crazy idea this. I have a 12acre field coming beet, thats a bit more bodied than ideal. Normal for us pre beet is to plough and press sometime between November and Feb, once muck has become available, spread, and ground conditions allow. Sometimes miss out the muck on the bodied land (put it on before the previous crop instead) to get it ploughed earlier. If we get a wet winter, early ploughed heavier land slumps, and is a pain to fettle in spring - an inch of tilth on top of soft but wet & sticky goo. It also means spring ploughing is late, so doesn't get enough weathering. Recent weather extremes have exacerbated this, so I'm reassesing the situation. A wise man wouldn't grow beet in there. Lets overlook that bit for now! Current thinking is to mintil drill a light barley & vetch cover in early September (its in spring wheat now, was mucked last year), spray off early, and drill the beet straight into the residue. Beet drill is a Stanhay 592, 6 row. We have a low disturbance tool bar with a leading disc followed by an LD leg that we run in front of our Moore drill (mounted) that could carry the beet drill without too much modifying, but this might disturb too much clart underneath if its a wet spring. We also have (York sale bargain) a genuine Stanhay crumbler bar (3 tines in front of a crumber wheel on individual parallel linkages in front of each row) that might be a better bet, possibly using a Cousins microlift tine instead of the three straight dutch harrow style tines in it currently) Not used it yet tbf. Ideas/comments please? Cheers [/QUOTE]
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