Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Danieljack1991]

Extatse Wheat drilled early October. Straight in after winter oats using Amazon Cayenna. No insecticides with 0.3 tebuconazole used at T0 and no T1 fungicide approach. Hoping it holds out until flag leaf without. or even better until harvest! calcium, magnesium and manganese foliar sprays applied.

 

[O'Reilly]

or right now just pull a x4 bigger drill with a fendt 724 for a LOT less capital

this tech is coming but not yet - it’s to expensive vs the alternatives still

Nothing to say that a larger robot couldn't pull a 12m though is there? Putting more horsepower on would be the easy bit.

 

[Clive]

Nothing to say that a larger robot couldn't pull a 12m though is there? Putting more horsepower on would be the easy bit.

true but at current prices it would still be more expensive that a tractor and a man to drive it thats also filling up

the economics of this just don't work yet for cereals in the UK


until you don't need the man to fill it (who therefore may as well be driving a tractor rather that sat reading a newspaper between fills !) and prices fall there isn't a economic case for robots drilling cereals IMO

 

[Brisel]

Read a newspaper? That's what autosteer is for!

 

[cquick]

Testing out the precision drill for direct drilling, patching some sunflowers into flooded patches of wheat.

 

[Sprinter 10]

Avatar sown 25/9/23

And today. 10th may

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Same beans today

 

[AlphaBravoPapaSux]

Testing out the precision drill for direct drilling, patching some sunflowers into flooded patches of wheat.

Are you planning to take these through to harvest?

 

[cquick]

Are you planning to take these through to harvest?

Nope, just keeping the ground active over summer, and testing out the drill before using it in anger.

In other news, today's job. Spraying off the pre-maize and pumpkin covers, then prepping for the pumpkins with the subsoiler. 100kg DAP down the spout. I'm going to leave it a week so the slots have a chance to warm up, and let the flush of weeds grow ahead of the pumpkins so I can take them out at the last moment with another sniff of glyphosate.
The maize ground is receiving biosolids tomorrow morning and then it'll be a race against the rain to subsoil and drill everything...

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[AlphaBravoPapaSux]

Peas coming through now, and the rye has laid down nicely. Hopefully it'll help suppress a bit of weed.

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How do these look now?

 

[cquick]

How do these look now?

Pretty damn good actually!
Received Falcon and some Triacontanol on Thursday. Growing noticably by the day now.

 

[cquick]

DD/strip till maize starting to emerge

 

[Wombat]

DD/strip till maize starting to emerge
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How do you go on with slugs, we are 5 yrs into DD and they are just as bad as they have always been.

 

[cquick]

How do you go on with slugs, we are 5 yrs into DD and they are just as bad as they have always been.

Still struggling with them. It depends on the crop but it's worst after OSR. We try and cut osr as high as possible to minimise the amount of trash on the ground, but last autumn we were still spreading pellets until nearly December on our wheat.


I'm hoping that understoreys and cover crops will help by keeping a constant slug population, therefore a consistent food source for the nematodes. Essentially i'm trying to eliminate the boom and bust aspect of slug populations.

 

[alomy75]

Wide rows observation today whilst spraying; like many I have more blackgrass this year than ever before…while I was waiting for the sprayer to clean I had a wander and 99% of the blackgrass I saw was growing between the rows…I hope its not a sign of what’s to come

 

[alomy75]

Awesome Dawsum. Only decent wheat I’ve got

 

[ollie989898]

Pretty damn good actually!
Received Falcon and some Triacontanol on Thursday. Growing noticably by the day now.

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That pea crop looks amazing!

I'm intrigued to see how the maize will do.

Wonder how you would get on doing the same with linseed, another crop that seems to want lighter/drier soils.

 

[Huntstreet]

First time through these winter beans yesterday with a fungicide. DD. In November. I've got them thick enough to block out growing weeds, but they might be a bit tall. I had to tie the steps up on the bateman with a phone charger cable

 

[cquick]

Wonder how you would get on doing the same with linseed, another crop that seems to want lighter/drier soils.

Linseed always sucked here. I could never average more than about 1.5t/ha.
I love it in cover crops, though!

 

[Renaultman]

View attachment 1183893Awesome Dawsum. Only decent wheat I’ve got

My Dawsum looks a long way behind my Extase, about 6 inches shorter, and not quite splitting the boot yet, where the Extase is getting well into ear.
All of it has decent potential, all we really need now is lots of sunshine.

 

[Wombat]

My Dawsum looks a long way behind my Extase, about 6 inches shorter, and not quite splitting the boot yet, where the Extase is getting well into ear.
All of it has decent potential, all we really need now is lots of sunshine.

Yeah don’t want 6x bushel wheat like last year, there will be feck all of it anyway without it being crap too