Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Jsmith2211]

Good point, surely microbes and other soil creepy crawlies can be classed as animals too.

Mostly worms that do it I think, pull the stuff down underground too

 

[Sprinter 10]

Avatar sown 25/9/23

 

[Derrick Hughes]

 

[Huntstreet]

DD WW skyfall after beans.

 

[Woody j]

DD WW skyfall after beans.

Looking well

 

[Sprinter 10]

Fitzroy after OSR, drilled, Avatar 10/10/23

 

[Renaultman]

Grafton 2nd wheat drilled with the Simtech 3rd week in September

 

[Brisel]

View attachment 1164915Grafton 2nd wheat drilled with the Simtech 3rd week in September

Looks

How are you finding the soil structure and drainage having used the Simtech for a little while now?

 

[Renaultman]

Looks

How are you finding the soil structure and drainage having used the Simtech for a little while now?

Definitely better, it will be interesting to see how the roots go down, as the season progresses. There is a field of extase min tilled, and put in with the Vaddy, drilled on the same day that puts it to shame at the moment, but I doubt there will be any difference at harvest.

 

[cquick]

Considering how crap it's looked all winter, this wheat has no right looking this good.
All drilled 16/17 Oct, on top of the Quantocks so it started on the back foot. Applied 50kgN as urea on Feb 5th
Mayflower after OSR & catch crop

Redwald after the same

Champion after peas

Olympus after peas seems to have gone a bit mental and become a grass ley:

 

[Huntstreet]

Considering how crap it's looked all winter, this wheat has no right looking this good.
All drilled 16/17 Oct, on top of the Quantocks so it started on the back foot. Applied 50kgN as urea on Feb 5th
Mayflower after OSR & catch crop
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Redwald after the same
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Champion after peasView attachment 1165214


Olympus after peas seems to have gone a bit mental and become a grass ley:
View attachment 1165215View attachment 1165216

What drill and catch crop did you use?

 

[cquick]

Catch crop was:
Buckwheat
Phacelia
Sunflower
Millet
Linseed

Drilled through the covers with a Kuhn SD4000, the pea stubbles were done with the Amazone Primera

 

[Danieljack1991]

Extase after Maize direct drilled with amazone cayenna.

 

[Against_the_grain]

1st ww after linseed. 100Ha of dd has all completely failed here this year.

 

[Badshot]

Definitely better, it will be interesting to see how the roots go down, as the season progresses. There is a field of extase min tilled, and put in with the Vaddy, drilled on the same day that puts it to shame at the moment, but I doubt there will be any difference at harvest.

Extase is a very, very fast growing variety.

It's going bonkers here compared to mayflower, Skyfall and Crusoe.

I think it's definitely got a place

 

[alomy75]

View attachment 11656211st ww after linseed. 100Ha of dd has all completely failed here this year.

Well done for posting that. There’s an awful lot of that around; here included. Are you going to cut some spring cereals straight in or LD subsoil first? It’s something I’m musing about at the moment.

 

[cquick]

End of an era after 25 years!
New toy coming soon...

 

[Against_the_grain]

Well done for posting that. There’s an awful lot of that around; here included. Are you going to cut some spring cereals straight in or LD subsoil first? It’s something I’m musing about at the moment.

I just think this thread needed some balance. Last year our DD crops were good, this year in a wet year on heavy land its a disaster. The water just cant get away quick enough. Im beginning to think its just too un-reliable in our climate on heavy soils. Will probably spring tine it and put something else in this spring but the fields are in a real state.

 

[Woody j]

I just think this thread needed some balance. Last year our DD crops were good, this year in a wet year on heavy land its a disaster. The water just cant get away quick enough. Im beginning to think its just too un-reliable in our climate on heavy soils. Will probably spring tine it and put something else in this spring but the fields are in a real state.

If that was mine I’d be ploughing when conditions improve to give it a chance to dry out

 

[Renaultman]

Extase is a very, very fast growing variety.

It's going bonkers here compared to mayflower, Skyfall and Crusoe.

I think it's definitely got a place

I totally agree, agronomist says not to drill to early, I'm really impressed in how it has powered out of the ground this year. Unfortunately none DD'd

This was ploughed last year and I felt it needed a year or two minutes till before going DD
The bordering Extase