- Location
- Cornwall
Wheat is finally looking like it’s getting somewhere.
The barley is struggling however.
The barley is struggling however.
Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery
- Thread starter strip-till-phil
- Start date
barley looks alright, if it doesnt get long hard cold snap it will be fine, especially with a bit of fairly early dob....
What drill was that sown with?
- Location
- Cornwall
Sumo DTS.
Gleam wheat sown 29th October by a Claydon after a lightly disced oat stubble. Nice to see a few worm casts.
What you can't see is a 5 acre heavy clay corner where it has sat waterlogged since and little has emerged so far. The other 57 acres in the field look like this, so no regrets.
Is that the field we saw on the course? Is that the clover coming back as well?
That's the one. You're right, the clover wasn't taken out by the roundup. It's making a nice companion crop, but as it's red clover we'll have to squash it before too long or it will swamp the wheat
- Location
- Snodland kent
Surge WB drilled 28th October with 750a after Wheat
- Location
- Snodland kent
Barrel WW drilled 12th November into Kings summer catch mix
- Location
- Matching Green
Third wheat attempting to defy the two Simons' theory, drilled with Simtech 30th October, year two of no-till.
How alkaline is the field Michael?
- Location
- Matching Green
It is at Readings where some fields need lime, but not this field at pH7.5+.
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
But at that pH you hardly want to be adding anything either. My Agrionamist wasn’t happy when some of mine came out that high this year as you apparently start to lock up some micro nutrients
- Location
- Matching Green
We have fields at home that are over pH8 where phosphate lockup begins to occur.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Two Simons’ theory is based around a localised acidic toxic zone where the plant residues are breaking down. That’s also very close to the growing crop. A bit of lime in this zone might help the crop - a tiny bit more calcium is going to be peeing in the ocean.
Would molasses be just as good to help the straw breakdown?
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
You are probably more read up on it than I. I have a habit of thinking aloud on here. But that is how I understand it, localised acidity from the breakdown. But what form would you put the lime down to take effect? As I think the time scales of the chemistry might be too slow to help the emerging crop. But again I’m out of my depth. If the lime was dusty enough, then maybe ok. And I guess would need to be to give a blanket effect, or if you are only putting down small amounts, the neutralising effect will be too localised to the individual lumps of lime, maybe? Again, thinking aloud. So as much a question as an answer
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Calcifert applied down the spout with the drill I’d imagine... 100-150kgs/ha would give a uniform coverage with the seed.. think @Clive does just this, or perhaps trialled this..