I thought that here on Saturday.Walking the winter barley this afternoon I was very surprised as to how active the spiders were.View attachment 944037View attachment 944038
Cant remember if you generally see spider webs this time of year.
I thought that here on Saturday.Walking the winter barley this afternoon I was very surprised as to how active the spiders were.View attachment 944037View attachment 944038
Thought we'd have a bash at putting 10ac of maize in with the DTS this year. Contractor blocked off every other unit and adapted the coulter. DAP down the spout at the same time and cambridge roll after to keep the moisture in.
Maize has a pretty shocking impact on our water courses down here. Grown in crap locations, power harrowed to very fine seedbeds, planted up and down, left bare over winter, you name it, I've seen it. Worth trying to find ways to do it better I think.
Will see how it goes.
Looks great. Any fungicide so far? What will you go with for T2?Extase DD with Simtech 27th September after beans. Also in Devon.
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Only a bit of kestrel at T1. Fair cocktail of stuff for T2 though!Looks great. Any fungicide so far? What will you go with for T2?
Can you keep us updated with pictures of this, if it works well could save people a great deal of money.
Beautiful flower in your crop there.Graham drilled late Oct with the DTS is having the seal of approval from the trainee agro!
Don’t be fooled! She’s got a few thorns as well!Beautiful flower in your crop there.
Looks like the Mzuri has kept it in rows and at a more uniform distance between plants than the DTS.Strip till maize here (mzuri) is starting to wake up, although probably will suffer from the rough start to life its had. 140kg of DAP under the seed, the rest of the fertiliser was broadcast onto stubbles before the drill.
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Kind of a cool visual, the new plant climbing up a stalk from two years. Excuse the weeds in this bit...
Looks like the Mzuri has kept it in rows and at a more uniform distance between plants than the DTS.
How was the depth control? We found quite a protracted germination due to seed depth.