Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[cquick]

Why are you drilling peas into the rye? Is it for an intercrop?

The rye was just a cover crop after maize, sprayed it off a couple of days before drilling

 

[Jsmith2211]

The rye was just a cover crop after maize, sprayed it off a couple of days before drilling

Bit of a shame, good crop of rye like that should've taken it to harvest! Ours all failed...

 

[cquick]

Bit of a shame, good crop of rye like that should've taken it to harvest! Ours all failed...

I considered it, but the compaction this spring would have been too much.

If you're near the Taunton area I've got some similar rye in front of maize for sale, drop me a PM!

 

[Fish]

N2 going on Extase,
Year 8 no till, 6 year old permanent t line.

 

[Hindsight]

I considered it, but the compaction this spring would have been too much.

If you're near the Taunton area I've got some similar rye in front of maize for sale, drop me a PM!

Being nosey - is the land in an NVZ area? Just that you are planting a pulse crop following an application of slurry.

 

[cquick]

Being nosey - is the land in an NVZ area? Just that you are planting a pulse crop following an application of slurry.

It is not, thankfully.
Also the slurry was long enough ago that I'd consider it an application to a cover crop for grazing, than the peas themselves.

 

[Wombat]

14yr olds first bit of drilling on Easter Sunday , dad sat in the copilot seat to be honest very pleased as it was straight into stubble and it’s not the nicest bit of soil

 

[ollie989898]

14yr olds first bit of drilling on Easter Sunday , dad sat in the copilot seat to be honest very pleased as it was straight into stubble and it’s not the nicest but of soil

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That'll motor, hope you get some sunshine on it.

 

[Nailuj]

Notilled winter barley at stage 37/39. We'll see how this one liked - 4 ° C yesterday night...

 

[Renaultman]

The very last field I drilled, Dawsum as a 2nd wheat, I can't believe it went on at 250kg/ha.
A bit patchy but really happy with how healthy the plants look.
Drilled on 07/10/23.
On a day when we couldn't have cultivated.
Just taking advantage of that slightly drier bit at the top.

 

[Jsmith2211]

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The very last field I drilled, Dawsum as a 2nd wheat, I can't believe it went on at 250kg/ha.
A bit patchy but really happy with how healthy the plants look.
Drilled on 07/10/23.
On a day when we couldn't have cultivated.
Just taking advantage of that slightly drier bit at the top.

Was a year for higher than high seedrates I think, especially for DD. Problem is you dont know till after the fact! Just finished putting some oats and the pea and barley in, we've gone for a quite high seedrate there so hoping that works out

 

[Wombat]

Was a year for higher than high seedrates I think, especially for DD. Problem is you dont know till after the fact! Just finished putting some oats and the pea and barley in, we've gone for a quite high seedrate there so hoping that works out

I wouldn’t even bother drilling clay at less than 250kg in a normal year. I have total failure from some drilled at 275kg

 

[Huntstreet]

DD Mayflower followijg ine DD beans in 2023. No t0, no incericides. Just doing t1.

 

[Huntstreet]

These were the beans in 2023 being drilled with the avatar and how they looked.

 

[sjt01]

Neighbour had a demo of a robot drilling vining peas with his 750a

 

[alomy75]

Neighbour had a demo of a robot drilling vining peas with his 750a

Now that is quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen. To work with a proper, standard implement and not some tilly willy piece of crap in a proper field….awesome

 

[sjt01]

Now that is quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen. To work with a proper, standard implement and not some tilly willy piece of crap in a proper field….awesome

But needs a low loader to move to the next field, also someone needed to fill up with seed etc. It really needs an automatic tender trailer so it can fill itself with seed and the like so it can be left to run overnight. Also at present it cannot reverse a trailed machine.

 

[alomy75]

But needs a low loader to move to the next field, also someone needed to fill up with seed etc. It really needs an automatic tender trailer so it can fill itself with seed and the like so it can be left to run overnight. Also at present it cannot reverse a trailed machine.

Good points. I guess a mounted machine or front tank type would solve the reversing issue. Lowloader easy enough and drill filler; least you could have an hour between going to check on it to do other stuff. Cults where it could go for 3 or 4 hours would obvs be where it really comes into its own.

 

[cquick]

Admittedly not likely with a 750, but what happens when the implement blocks up - does it blindly drag it around until someone turns up?

I think we'll be needing a human-level intelligence on most machines for some time yet.

 

[Wombat]