Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Will Blackburn]

I love the effect of the guttlers through the slurry applied before drilling.

 

[TelesnaAg]

View attachment 419470 Yes, it is.

That's impressive...

Ant..

 

[Brisel]

Siskin milling wheat planted 5th October after oilseed rape. This is my first season of strip tillage after years of deep non inversion tillage.

There must be some worms around already to feed the moles??

In the background I have stubble turnips ready for sheep grazing over the winter.

 

[willy]

I love the effect of the guttlers through the slurry applied before drilling.View attachment 423858

Can't be good looks capped an horible, surely that is too much slurry? Surely needs to be spread thinner?

 

[Brisel]

Plenty of cracking in the crust plus the crop made it through nicely.

 

[willy]

Plenty of cracking in the crust plus the crop made it through nicely.

Well it's a bit like drilling into disced slop, not ideal for micro organisms?

 

[Brisel]

True. I'd question the dose rate of slurry too. I'm sure it had less than 250 kg/ha total N.

 

[willy]

Sorry just being an awkward bugger

 

[Brisel]

Sorry just being an awkward bugger

That's what the Internet is for

Can you tell us about the slurry application @Will Blackburn ?

 

[Feldspar]

Siskin milling wheat planted 5th October after oilseed rape. This is my first season of strip tillage after years of deep non inversion tillage.

There must be some worms around already to feed the moles??

In the background I have stubble turnips ready for sheep grazing over the winter.
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What do you reckon your % establishment losses have been with the Claydon? Big topic of discussion for us this year with the JD for comparison.

 

[Brisel]

I don't know. With variable rate seed based on establishment rates I wasn't going to spend much time on plant counts TBH but I might do a few. The picture was taken in a reasonable bit of the field. I promise to publish the yields though.

 

[Shutesy]

Siskin milling wheat planted 5th October after oilseed rape. This is my first season of strip tillage after years of deep non inversion tillage.

There must be some worms around already to feed the moles??

In the background I have stubble turnips ready for sheep grazing over the winter.
View attachment 426370

Looks alright to me, rows will thicken out soon enough, I know the Claydon is the same spacing as my DTS but the rows do look wide apart! What was the kg/ha?

 

[Brisel]

About 153 kg/ha. 52g TGW. The Claydon has 32cm leg spacing but I used 7" A shares with the split seed boot.

 

[Will Blackburn]

That's what the Internet is for

Can you tell us about the slurry application @Will Blackburn ?

Note that we are not in an NVZ. Nevertheless the plan is for an even application but with a dual spreader and variable dairy muck the inevitable happens. Fortunately the weather was dry and it crusted over the light ground. Still had to jet wash the coulter assembly after.

An overdose of slurry typically with an umbilical is a massive worm killer. Fair few farms going back to tankers because they are more economical at lower rates.

 

[Fish]

My first time drilling 'on the green'
Interestingly I had to put slug pellets on 3ha as the slugs were preferring to eat the wheat.

 

[Baling Hay]

View attachment 426558 View attachment 426552 View attachment 426556 View attachment 426558 View attachment 426556 View attachment 426552 My first time drilling 'on the green'
Interestingly I had to put slug pellets on 3ha as the slugs were preferring to eat the wheat.

You must be growing better wheat than @Clive then!

 

[Brisel]

View attachment 426558 View attachment 426552 View attachment 426556 View attachment 426558 View attachment 426556 View attachment 426552 My first time drilling 'on the green'
Interestingly I had to put slug pellets on 3ha as the slugs were preferring to eat the wheat.

Can you tell us a bit more about the previous crop, CC species, timings etc please?

 

[Fish]

Errr, that ain't no cc, it v OSR,,
The soil type is sandy loam over clay, previous crops OSR,wheat, linseed.
The crop also received 10t/ha of fym, non nvz.
Wheat is Graham, drilled 26/9 @ 150kg, v's sprayed with 1.5l/ha of 480 glypho day before drilling, and has since been sprayed with Ductis to finish them off.
I know all about how slugs feed, and was very surprised that they preferred the wheat over the ORS, but they did.

I guess maybe, in this case, bang goes the theory.

 

[Brisel]

That was just me being daft. I saw so much cereal straw at the bottom I didn't know what the last crop was until I looked at the taller stubble standing up.

Doh!

 

[juke]

Couple pictures of some tillage radishes drilled at the end of August doing some good work, the spade head is 9 inches long.. just for a scale