Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
They'll cut through the trash and you keep the front tine so getting the shatter effect as well?
I'm not sure what you mean by shatter effect. The tine just cuts a trench for water drainage I think . It's handy for lazy rooting plants like rape. Let's them get an easy start with the tap rooting process.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
You get a lot of shatter on stony soils. If the tine only cuts a 1” wide slot it’s too wet and you’ve smeared it. I want a Y shaped profile to give a good rooting zone for the seed put on the shoulders of the tine channel.
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
is what you are reffering too surface burst? . id be more inclined to think the a share creates the shelf for the seed to sit on obviously soil type has its part to play... . far as cereal drilling goes I think the leg is way overkill less is more..
 

Case290

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Yep worked a treat that ripper tine this year . Not really running them deep. My fields aren’t supper level or the claydon dosnt follow the ground that well . So when the a share skips out at least the ripper tine has made a trench for the seed to drop in
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
I understand what you are both saying , n too some extent I agree. I just really don't like seeing the drill with the tine on , we move too much soil as it is with a fresh set of A shares on without bringing soil up from underneath with the tine. im not saying the disc unit is perfect but as far as going with a strip drill its the least amount of soil you are going to move so structure should improve more than using anyother strip drilling method. I also wonder if its better for grassweeds as your not bringing dormant seeds up from depth like we were shown in an earlier posting..
 

Case290

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Claydon v drill using front tine and rear bean knife coulter.
1F8C1E9D-EABF-44B3-91F1-1F70AC60F5CD.jpeg
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
Keep the K into it if slightly more plants than normal imo...soil N level?

Looks good...

Ant...

to be honest haven't a clue what the soil n levels are like, not something we really test for I don't know if others do or not... have done it in high legume content cover crops last year and then against control patches in the field as well. haven't a clue how much of it was available but the spring oats did ok in the drought.
 
to be honest haven't a clue what the soil n levels are like, not something we really test for I don't know if others do or not... have done it in high legume content cover crops last year and then against control patches in the field as well. haven't a clue how much of it was available but the spring oats did ok in the drought.


Beans need K to drive flowering, then pollination or what i call pod conversion needs to be monitored closely as to how many of those flowers convert to pods.

You can grow showy crops with stuff all pods.
You can grow well flowered crops with stuff all conversion.

Ant...
 

Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
DSC_1354.JPG
DSC_1356.JPG


Beans are emerging now.
Think they're potentially going to end up a bit too thick.
Done a count in an area that's well emerged and got 32 plants / m.
 

Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
View attachment 740638 View attachment 740636 View attachment 740634 Photo taken today, same here, looks like every seed has grown.
Tundra @ 140kg
Mine were Tundra, and were meant to be 88% germination, think they're more like 98. Planted 225 kg/ha to get 35 seeds if memory serves.
Expected to end up with 22-25 plants in spring with some losses
Rooks don't seem to be able to find them, they're so well buried I struggle.
Certainly can't pull them up.
There's lots of birds on the fields, but they seem to be finding wheat from badger/deer damage still.
 

Fish

Member
Location
North yorkshire
Mine were Tundra, and were meant to be 88% germination, think they're more like 98. Planted 225 kg/ha to get 35 seeds if memory serves.
Expected to end up with 22-25 plants in spring with some losses
Rooks don't seem to be able to find them, they're so well buried I struggle.
Certainly can't pull them up.
There's lots of birds on the fields, but they seem to be finding wheat from badger/deer damage still.

We've also had very few problems with rooks, total contrast to last year when they were hammered. I think now the beans are past the point where they are vulnerable to rooks, but there are still the odd pair of carrion crows kicking about and those buggers are almost impossible to stop.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 78 43.1%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.8%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.6%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.2%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,286
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top