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WHF

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South west
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Mid Dorset
Wheat drilled 8th Feb, the field was wheat then drilled with turnips grazed by cows that finished the field around New year but only came dry in Feb to drill.

This year we plan for some of the ex wb ground to go to turnips and start grazing in Sept to then go into wheat end oct/November time. Mini break for the ground and keep the cows fed! Plenty of fym and turnips in the rotation keeping the ground in good heart.
 
Location
Holderness

So much for beans not being DD able.
Weaving gd, tundra , end march.

One neighbour has been direct drilling beans for many years, he puts more seed on, they are often shorter but very well podded! Ironically this spring they look his poorest stand since he started, the recent/current rain we are having may well change that!

Looks like a little rough in the seat mind?

YA
 

Badshot

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Location
Kent
One neighbour has been direct drilling beans for many years, he puts more seed on, they are often shorter but very well podded! Ironically this spring they look his poorest stand since he started, the recent/current rain we are having may well change that!

Looks like a little rough in the seat mind?

YA
Still quite bumpy from the last rape crop planted with subsoiler.
It's only seen the gd since.
 

E_B

Member
Location
Norfolk
A few photos from a walkabout yesterday. All crops drilled with a Mzuri Protil. Can't remember the drilling dates.

Augustus maize straight into wheat stubble, 100kg DAP for the most part down the front leg. Was originally disappointed with this as it suffered patchy emergence on the clay patches due to the dry but also slug damage. However I'm feeling happier with it now, given the season and also the fact that our ploughed maized isn't exactly romping away either. Areas against hedges and trees haven't grown.

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Winter beans after two year grass ley. Drilled this at the very beginning of October, a couple of days after we had 70+mm in one day. This is a heavy field, but the grass kept the soil dry and friable. Really like this technique, hopefully we will get a good cheap wheat afterwards. Haven't really seen a negative consequence from drilling them early and deep into good conditions.

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Not all the plants look like this one unfortunately:

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Skyscraper wheat after beans, drilled on the 22nd September at 240kg, the day before the rain started. If I hadn't drilled then, it would not have gotten drilled. Hoping that the three year break leading into first wheats after grass and beans will allow me to continue early drilling from a BG, especially if BYDV resistant varieties become a thing. A late, thin plant population on this ground leads to a BG disaster in a wet year.

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E_B

Member
Location
Norfolk
Some Mascani winter oats drilled with the Mzuri into wheat stubble, in the last week or so of March. Massively patchy emergence but surprised how well they have filled in since. Don't know if they'll make the combine (want the straw if nothing else) or be made into silage. Originally I wanted to fallow this field but glad we did something now.

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Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
As I sent him the bill the other day, I thought I’d better look at the neighbours job I did 2 weeks ago, ( planting grazing / feed wheat ). It was on very light, sandy, hard country, moisture was pretty marginal & he thought he’d have to wait till next rain for it to come up.
Since the wet March, it has turned quite dry again & May & June so far have been very dry, with no rain.
Anyway, I was very pleased to see nice strong green rows - looked like every seed ( 40 kg / ha, so very light by TFF standards ) came up.


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and not a set of rolls anywhere near it

why do you even need rolls ?
 
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Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
As I sent him the bill the other day, I thought I’d better look at the neighbours job I did 2 weeks ago, ( planting grazing / feed wheat ). It was on very light, sandy, hard country, moisture was pretty marginal & he thought he’d have to wait till next rain for it to come up.
Since the wet March, it has turned quite dry again & May & June so far have been very dry, with no rain.
Anyway, I was very pleased to see nice strong green rows - looked like every seed ( 40 kg / ha, so very light by TFF standards ) came up.


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and not a set of rolls anywhere near it

why do you even need rolls ?
We must have more slugs and snails wanting to eat the seed.
Some years unrolled seedbeds result in total failure whereas rolling slows them down enough to allow it to grow ahead of them.
 

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