Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[E_B]

Was waiting for three hours for a delayed grain lorry to turn up yesterday so plenty of time to walk round some fields, all Mzuri drilled.

Tundra on heavy land:

Wizard on light:

Lilli after oats

After beans:

Wheats have only had 80kg/ha N so far, could do with a rain, obviously...

Barley into maize stubble on sand definitely needs a rain!

 

[Feldspar]

Was waiting for three hours for a delayed grain lorry to turn up yesterday so plenty of time to walk round some fields, all Mzuri drilled.

Tundra on heavy land:

Wizard on light:

Lilli after oats

After beans:

Wheats have only had 80kg/ha N so far, could do with a rain, obviously...

Barley into maize stubble on sand definitely needs a rain!

Looking good! What date did you plant those beans? Looks pretty clean for BG. I'd be pleased with all of those.

 

[Kevtherev]

reflection drilled end october 150kg/ha after spuds, just grubbed first

Can't get much better than that

 

[d williams]

Was waiting for three hours for a delayed grain lorry to turn up yesterday so plenty of time to walk round some fields, all Mzuri drilled.

Tundra on heavy land:

Wizard on light:

Lilli after oats

After beans:

Wheats have only had 80kg/ha N so far, could do with a rain, obviously...

Barley into maize stubble on sand definitely needs a rain!

Do you plant maize with muzri?

 

[E_B]

Looking good! What date did you plant those beans? Looks pretty clean for BG. I'd be pleased with all of those.

Thanks! Drilled last couple of days in September, 185kg/ha, in about 5-6 inches. The previous wheat was quite dirty with BG so pleased with the control.

 

[E_B]

Do you plant maize with muzri?

Planning one some experimentation in the next couple of weeks with maize! If this dry weather continues, the experimental acreage might be increased, sprayed off some stubbles just incase.

 

[d williams]

Planning one some experimentation in the next couple of weeks with maize! If this dry weather continues, the experimental acreage might be increased, sprayed off some stubbles just incase.

Would you mind keeping me updated as planning the same when forage rye comes off also family quite interested if it stays dry

 

[eagleye]

Granary sp wheat 180kg/ha sown 24 March Claydon, evening sun doesnt show it well. Coming up nicely for a week now. pictured 14/4.

 

[Feldspar]

I am pretty convinced that our maschioing behind some of the drilled spring barley has saved the day given the very dry weather that followed. I also think we drilled at just the right time with the benefit or hindsight. Glad we didn't wait until now with no moisture.

This was taken a while ago now. Nearly all our crops are looking acceptable. Even the field which was a cover crop is looking OK.

 

[Douglasmn]

I am pretty convinced that our maschioing behind some of the drilled spring barley has saved the day given the very dry weather that followed. I also think we drilled at just the right time with the benefit or hindsight. Glad we didn't wait until now with no moisture.

This was taken a while ago now. Nearly all our crops are looking acceptable. Even the field which was a cover crop is looking OK.

I think any technique which conserved moisture this spring will have been a good one.

 

[Feldspar]

Spring barley behind cover crop. Zero-till with 750a, then Maschioed(!), and then rolled. Put in a LHS offset on the Topcon of 7cm which has worked well. Probably needs to be 8-9cm in reality to get it just right.

 

[Fish]

Spring crops
Photos 1-2 linseed, drilled on 8 April, photo taken this morning after last nights -3 frost, so far almost no FFB damage.
Photo 3, peas, drilled 5 April, this part of the field had been straw raked twice in the autumn.
Photo 4, same field, but peas drilled after a cover crop.

 

[Louis Mc]

Spring barley behind cover crop. Zero-till with 750a, then Maschioed(!), and then rolled. Put in a LHS offset on the Topcon of 7cm which has worked well. Probably needs to be 8-9cm in reality to get it just right.

Have you any non maschio bit to compare?

 

[Feldspar]

Have you any non maschio bit to compare?

Rather annoyingly, no, not a big strip. We have another field that was raked rather than maschioed which was fallow last year and was drier. The odd bit the maschio has missed (like a few feet) look a lot worse. Baked out slots and at least half the number of plants growing.

 

[Brisel]

Beans sown 3" deep 10th April after mustard cover crop.

Planet spring barley sown 15th March after a vetch/clover cover crop. Slugs hit the CC quite hard and thinned the barley too. The wheat on the far side of the valley shows moisture stress and fertiliser scorch.

All sown by a Claydon Hybrid

 

[Will7]

Planet drilled at 375 seeds/sqm on the 6th April direct into spring barley stubble with chopped straw with the trusty seedhawk.

 

[Brisel]

That's a lot of straw left on top!

 

[Will7]

These images should give you an idea of what it looks like post harvest. I then have to deal with it which is not simple! Last yr it chopped better than ever, but I was turning the blades every 150 acres.

That's a lot of straw left on top!

 

[Shutesy]

That's a lot of straw left on top!

Thats the sort of levels of straw if not more I seem to have to deal with! Bugger all straw left in your 2 pics, better soil life?

 

[Will7]

This is what is left by the end of June. I am now getting some sensible sized worms, to complement my slug population!