Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Will7]

This is another field in that block of Elyann. Claydon sown this time. Waist high in places despite 2 decent PGRs.View attachment 818728

I think i need to revise my agronomy for next year.....
Mine are stood 1.2m tall and are looking very wafty in even the slightest breeze. Having been judging crops last week and seen a grower who puts 0.4ltr/ha of moddus on his oats my 0.13ltr/ha looks a bit pathetic. I did a follow up pgr as well but I think it needs a stronger dose up front. Also 140kg/N/ha might be a bit strong but they are good sized grains so time will tell.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Planting barley ( 50kg / ha, fairly normal sort of rate ) into sorghum stubble harvested April 2018.
Apologies for the lack of groundcover, but this black soil just eats up residue. 25 yrs or so of zero till. Prior to the sorghum, it was munbeans double cropped into standing wheat straw, but you won't find any remnants or evidence of them. All of the flag leaf of the sorghum had also disappeared, leaving only the tough cellulose stalks

 

[PuG]

Planting barley ( 50kg / ha, fairly normal sort of rate ) into sorghum stubble harvested April 2018.
Apologies for the lack of groundcover, but this black soil just eats up residue. 25 yrs or so of zero till. Prior to the sorghum, it was munbeans double cropped into standing wheat straw, but you won't find any remnants or evidence of them. All of the flag leaf of the sorghum had also disappeared, leaving only the tough cellulose stalks

Looks good, what drill are you using?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Looks good, what drill are you using?

Err, it's a locally made 8 metre bar on linkage, with 24 Baldan ( South American ) single disc ( very similar to the JD 750a you would be familiar with ) units mounted on it.
Has a 2 tonne Simplicity airseeder hanging off the front of tractor.
If I need to transport planter down the road, I carry it on a trailer behind tractor

 

[PuG]

Thanks, I've emailed Baldan - I also got a quick reply from Argselmash https://argselmash.com.ar/single-disk-row-unit/ who seem very help, only its a 17" cutting disc instead of 20". Both South America. I don't know if there's a EU based manufacturer.

We're looking at making a 3 meter unit but large row spacing.

I know your busy, I was just wondering if theres a chance for the outer dimensions you used on the box steel that each unit clamps to, and the spacing between the bottom two for the depth of the machine? Cheers, James

 

[Farmer Roy]

Thanks, I've emailed Baldan - I also got a quick reply from Argselmash https://argselmash.com.ar/single-disk-row-unit/ who seem very help, only its a 17" cutting disc instead of 20". Both South America. I don't know if there's a EU based manufacturer.

We're looking at making a 3 meter unit but large row spacing.

I know your busy, I was just wondering if theres a chance for the outer dimensions you used on the box steel that each unit clamps to, and the spacing between the bottom two for the depth of the machine? Cheers, James

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Hi
So sorry I haven't replied earlier.
The toolbar is 100mm RHS, which is a pretty standard size bar here & pretty common for a lot of "bolt on" componetry & planter row units.
The distance between the bars as indicated by your arrows is 950 mm.
Hope this helps

 

[PuG]

Perfect thank you - going ahead to building a frame, gives us something to work with. Waiting still for Baldan but probably going to fit SLY BOSS france single drill undercut units. Cheers, James

 

[Brisel]

Linseed, buckwheat, phacelia and berseem clover broadcast by a pneumatic fertilser spreader into a standing crop of wheat that was cut a week later. The straw was chopped.

 

[Devon James]

@Bury the Trash [emoji6] I know you loves a bit of sheep keep. Planted 6th August

 

[Brisel]

My turnips this evening

 

[Bury the Trash]

Look at those contrasting soil colours.

@Bury the Trash [emoji6] I know you loves a bit of sheep keep View attachment 827713View attachment 827714

Funnily enough i was thinking about that just today for some wb stubble, but it would be overkill , what with fodder beet this year.

 

[pine_guy]

Combining my Orwel WB last week before the heavens opened and never shut. Planted 25/10/18 with a simtech demo. Yielded 3t tops (estimate) and 1.5t straw. Had a cracking crop of wild oats as well

Had 50kg/acre 27N 9S and 100kg/acre Pulan. One pass herbicide/growth reg, one pass fungicide. Gate closed. This field has been continuous barley for 16years plough/combi drill and is starting to have soil structure issues. If it ever stops raining and I can lead the bales off, I intend to min till to level and sow down to grass.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Combining my Orwel WB last week before the heavens opened and never shut. Planted 25/10/18 with a simtech demo. Yielded 3t tops (estimate) and 1.5t straw. Had a cracking crop of wild oats as well

Had 50kg/acre 27N 9S and 100kg/acre Pulan. One pass herbicide/growth reg, one pass fungicide. Gate closed. This field has been continuous barley for 16years plough/combi drill and is starting to have soil structure issues. If it ever stops raining and I can lead the bales off, I intend to min till to level and sow down to grass.
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Looks nice and clean otherwise... . And all without prem em.

But Did you make a bad decision re. The amount of Wild oats our just deliberatly not spray them to save the cost as its got dearer these days.?..

 

[pine_guy]

Looks nice and clean otherwise... . And all without prem em.

But Did you make a bad decision re. The amount of Wild oats our just deliberatly not spray them to save the cost as its got dearer these days.?..

Yes deliberately not sprayed for wild oats. Stubble sprayed off last year and a lot had germinated in a strip I had missed, so thought with the DD might not be too bad, and I think they where better. But heading into grass so not worried and grain just for feed. Never sprayed for them to be honest. Getting some under control with roguing. Wholecroped one fiend for two seasons and that has helped a lot. Another field I have lost the battle, again heading for grass. Wanted to spray, but never seem to get a chance when in SB which we grow quite a bit.

 

[Devon James]

Look at those contrasting soil colours.



Funnily enough i was thinking about that just today for some wb stubble, but it would be overkill , what with fodder beet this year.

What will you follow the barley with?

 

[MBLORINSER]

Grass renewal

 

[Brisel]

Grass renewalView attachment 827789View attachment 827790View attachment 827791View attachment 827792

What are you sowing in there? Clover?

 

[MBLORINSER]

Don't know. Sowing for friend some grass mix,

 

[reb1952]

First outing for new toy. Drilling cover crop mix into chopped linseed straw. Destined for Sp. Barley next year.
Edit
Should be a video but doesn't seem to work.
Its like the old joke.........
An Englishman, an iphone, and Windows 7 trying to share video.

 

[Brisel]

It's like a drill picture, but smaller! GD on a Caddy chassis?