Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Brisel]

Has that had any BLW herbicide at all Tim?

No. The hedge mustard and cleavers usually mean clomazone which would have nailed the vetch according to other CC growers in here. 0.8 Falcon for spring barley volunteers, that’s all. Astrokerb to follow

 

[BenB]

No. The hedge mustard and cleavers usually mean clomazone which would have nailed the vetch according to other CC growers in here. 0.8 Falcon for spring barley volunteers, that’s all. Astrokerb to follow

Thanks..only reason I ask is I have a grower with a trial field of OSR + berseem clover, used Katamaran/Naspar post em as no clomazone for same reason as you. Really hit the clover badly, we lost some and some recovered...based on Agrovista companion crop trials that is meant to be fairly safe post em!

 

[Brisel]

Let that dog off!

It would be the last picture you saw it in! Not very gamekeeper friendly. Good ratter though

 

[Farmer Roy]

Dryland cotton

 

[jack6480]

This is my first attempt at DD wheat with a weaving gd, was drilled then rolled and sprayed off, middle looks good had 2 doses of slug pellets though. However seed on parts of the headlands is just sat in the slot not doing anything.

 

[rob1]

This is my first attempt at DD wheat with a weaving gd, was drilled then rolled and sprayed off, middle looks good had 2 doses of slug pellets though. However seed on parts of the headlands is just sat in the slot not doing anything.

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looks ok. when was it drilled?

 

[jack6480]

The 17th, can't believe how many slugs have appeared in the last week

 

[rob1]

The 17th, can't believe how many slugs have appeared in the last week

should be fine this year, but that far north a bit earlier might e better in a normal year, but the thing with dd is dont look at it during the winter as it never looks as good as normal drilled stuff

 

[Simon C]

This is my first attempt at DD wheat with a weaving gd, was drilled then rolled and sprayed off, middle looks good had 2 doses of slug pellets though. However seed on parts of the headlands is just sat in the slot not doing anything.

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Lots of worm middens, well done.

 

[jack6480]

Lots of worm middens, well done.

Doesn't take much to find a worm or slug [emoji28]

 

[jack6480]

Rape drilled with atchinson straight into grass stubble

 

[Brisel]

Claydon sown Picto osr sown 24th August

 

[juke]

how did you have the drill configured @Brisel looks a cracking stand of rape

 

[Brisel]

Tines in 5" deep. Worn 7" A shares and splitter boot. It's kind land drilled in good conditions. I wanted to capture the full moon but the phone camera picked up too much light.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Ok, here's a great example of the need for moisture conservation, why we have fallow periods to build up soil moisture & why we zero till

This wheat ( neighbours, not mine ) went straight in after dryland cotton was picked, mulched & root cut ( double cropping wheat after cotton a fairly common practice, as much for ground cover / stubble as anything else ). The cotton was planted at an angle to this road, so the thicker wheat in the pic is a result of the "point rows" , there was no cotton growing in these triangle shaped areas on the headland, thus a lot more soil moisture.

Soil moisture, or the lack of it, is the reason for the difference

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Feldspar]

One of our only two true zero-tilled fields of 2nd wheat. I was convinced this would fail (or at least come up on patches). It was drilled with the soil quite damp, older discs, no rolling and done in the 2nd half of October. Didn't put any slug pellets or pre-ems on because I was so pessimistic. Has come better than I could have expected. Pre-em has now been applied.

Bean stubble. One pass with Terrastar and then in with the 750a. Drilled about mid-October.

OSR stubble baled. Two passes with Terrastar and then straight in with drill. Quite a lot of slug pellets to keep on top of slugs which were worse in the rows where the swaths lay. Headland was power-harrowed which required one less lot of slug pellets.

 

[Feldspar]

2nd wheat. Very wet all harvest period. Despaired what to do with it being scared to do too much zero-till 2nd wheat after last year. Put Terrastar through once and never got another chance to do it again. Put drill straight in and the Terrastar had exposed just enough soil and gave that little bit of tilth to get it in not too badly. Have a good area like this all looking well. Terrastar + 750a combo has worked well this year. Tried Claydon in one field and it just pulled up mud so it never did any more cereals.

 

[jack6480]

Does the terrastar help with slugs? Would a stubble rake not be better before drilling?

 

[Feldspar]

Does the terrastar help with slugs? Would a stubble rake not be better before drilling?

I don't think it helps with slugs necessarily. The main thing it does do is to expose some soil for the disc to work better in and dry out a bit of the top layer of the soil which gives a bit of tilth to fold in around the seed. Stubble rake doesn't mix top residue and on our soil type really just skates over the surface in a superficial way. Used the rake after drilling on a few fields to close up some more stubborn slots.

I don't like the way the Terrastar leaves a very unlevel soil surface if only time for one pass, but there's no deny that it does an important job in damp soil conditions when no other machines with discs or a press element could work.