Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
DTS sown spring oats. Sown 27th March. Straight out the pile and into the drill after a diverse cover crop. No seed treatment. Bit short but not bad all things considered.
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Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
Modern term...companion crop, old term....dredge corn! Beans, oats and a little barley. No inputs other than seed and glyphosate. There is groundsel in the bottom but other than that clean, famous last words. Visited @andyhoward farm last year and wanted to give it a try View attachment 889129
I like what you say in your first sentence ,so very true. As the saying says "What goes around comes around", oh mankind is so clever. ???????? :banghead:;)
 

Villagefarmer

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Arable Farmer
Location
East Yorkshire
Modern term...companion crop, old term....dredge corn! Beans, oats and a little barley. No inputs other than seed and glyphosate. There is groundsel in the bottom but other than that clean, famous last words. Visited @andyhoward farm last year and wanted to give it a try View attachment 889129
How will you manage the harvest date? I presume you want the oats as well and separate them at the farm. Will they not be ready first before the beans
 
Modern term...companion crop, old term....dredge corn! Beans, oats and a little barley. No inputs other than seed and glyphosate. There is groundsel in the bottom but other than that clean, famous last words. Visited @andyhoward farm last year and wanted to give it a try View attachment 889129

I can't help thinking I would like to see that going up a forager spout. Looks delicious.
 

Devon James

Member
Location
Devon
How will you manage the harvest date? I presume you want the oats as well and separate them at the farm. Will they not be ready first before the beans
Not sure yet! We have acreage next to it in a summer grazing mix (picture) (there's a thread on that somewhere) and was going to graze this as well. But we could forage it but would rather combine then roll the grain. We will see
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Devon James

Member
Location
Devon
I was thinking of trying some as whole crop
I assume you drilled it with the claydon, what depth did you drill the mix at as i would of thought the beans would need to be deeper that the oats and barley
Not as deep as a normal bean planting set up. I think we used the splitter boot rather than the bean boot. Yeah go for it.
 

E_B

Member
Location
Norfolk
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Posted this on the maize thread, but this was drilled straight into stubble with our Mzuri (non singulation), medium loam type with clay patches. The right side had DAP, the left didn't. That's the only only difference, which has been particularly highlighted in this area of the field. Feel like the DAP has papered over some phosphate deficiency nicely. Patchy emergence partly caused by slugs (a negative of strip tilling maize on anything but sand) and conversely, the dry spell.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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