Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[alomy75]

Visited the WW into bean stubble again; looking good but slugs are working one corner of one field…looks like older damage;

quite surprised to see them after beans. Debating some slug pellets.

 

[Case290]

Mzuri so far v good.

 

[Hobbit]

Exstase after spring beans and oat mix. Planted on the 19th of October with a sky easy drill.

 

[YELROM]

@Hobbit how did you plant and how did you harvest the bean/oat mix
We are thinking of growing a spring bean/oat mix for whole crop

 

[Hobbit]

@Hobbit how did you plant and how did you harvest the bean/oat mix
We are thinking of growing a spring bean/oat mix for whole crop

They were planted with the sky. Beans down the main coulter for a bit more depth and the oats down the back coulter set in the middle position so a bit shallower. Very low input. No fert and just a bit of teb with some nutrition.
The oats came fit before the beans so had to wait but not much shedding. Combining was easy but some of the beans smashed up and the sample looked a bit dirty due to a lot of bean pods due to running the fan low.

 

[ZXR17]

Graham direct drilled with a Weaving Sabre Tine on the 14/10/21

 

[Hindsight]

View attachment 1000860Visited the WW into bean stubble again; looking good but slugs are working one corner of one field…looks like older damage; View attachment 1000861quite surprised to see them after beans. Debating some slug pellets.

As you say old damage. Not that unusual to note slug damage after beans on the Wallasea series soils. But not usual to treat. In your case without seeing it I would suggest no slug pellets but take the dog for a walk across the patch regularly, say every five days upto Xmas just to monitor and give you peace of mind. And some exercise for those inevitable Mince Pies. I am about to do same later this afternoon on a farm where we have Oct 23 direct drilled wheat after rape which looks similar to the plants in your picture - so there the farmer is operating a watching brief.

 

[Wombat]

I did a similar oats 75kg/ha and vetch 12kg/ha drilled into wheat stubble at the start of September
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When did you sow yours?

Sorry missed this 10th of sept the slugs were still chewing on it last week, your is 4 x the rate of the one i bought though and mine was £50/ha

 

[Flatlander]

Crap autumns. Didn’t get anything drilled in autumn 2019 and last autumn was vaguely better but only for the fact we got something drilled in autumn. At 20m above sea level with 2m of fall in 1km in one direction water breeds water with high mg snot. So we converted our old flat lift to Metcalf ng legs to loosen up some areas and in the end I did the lot. Hopefully won’t need to use much going forward

2 meter fall in a 1km would be hill farming for me. around a foot in a mile here

 

[Wombat]

 

[alomy75]

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Crikey and there was me thinking I was tall!

 

[Fish]

Though I’d throw theses photos up,
Wheat in to ex s oats ground, straw chopped.
This is high mag clay, I remember doing 3 passes with the power harrow in our ploughing days and even after all that the seed bed was crap.
But as people say, no till don’t work on heavy land.

 

[Wombat]

Though I’d throw theses photos up,
Wheat in to ex s oats ground, straw chopped.
This is high mag clay, I remember doing 3 passes with the power harrow in our ploughing days and even after all that the seed bed was crap.
But as people say, no till don’t work on heavy land.View attachment 1004999View attachment 1005000

Any idea of the mg ppm? We have some at 1300 that looks equally as well.

 

[alomy75]

Though I’d throw theses photos up,
Wheat in to ex s oats ground, straw chopped.
This is high mag clay, I remember doing 3 passes with the power harrow in our ploughing days and even after all that the seed bed was crap.
But as people say, no till don’t work on heavy land.View attachment 1004999View attachment 1005000

Is that intentional that the new rows fall inside the old rows? I’m debating this point for next year; does it make a difference?

 

[Fish]

Any idea of the mg ppm? We have some at 1300 that looks equally as well.

Good grief ! , no it’s not that high, 460/480, index 6/7 I think.

 

[Hindsight]

Any idea of the mg ppm? We have some at 1300 that looks equally as well.

Crumbs, you could mine that for Magnesium!

 

[Fish]

Is that intentional that the new rows fall inside the old rows? I’m debating this point for next year; does it make a difference?

Yes, completely intentional, my wife drilled that field, she just shifted the ab line left or right by 60mm.

 

[Wombat]

Good grief ! , no it’s not that high, 460/480, index 6/7 I think.

The 2 pictures just above yours with the long shadow are in index 8

 

[Wombat]

Crumbs, you could mine that for Magnesium!

It might be more profitable than farming it

 

[average farmer]

Though I’d throw theses photos up,
Wheat in to ex s oats ground, straw chopped.
This is high mag clay, I remember doing 3 passes with the power harrow in our ploughing days and even after all that the seed bed was crap.
But as people say, no till don’t work on heavy land.View attachment 1004999View attachment 1005000

what drill was that drilled with ?