Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Brisel]

Campus oilseed rape sown by a Claydon last week in August. It has just had full rate teb for a PGR and LLS control.

 

[Shutesy]

Drilling Planet S Barley @220kg/ha into untouched wheat stubble. Year 5 of strip till in this field. Cannot believe after the winter we have had how well it is going in, 2 weeks ago I didn't think I would be able to direct drill anything. This is the heavy part of the current field im in and no ploughing and power harrowing for 5 years is really starting to show in the improved soil structure!

 

[Jolly]

Spring Beans going straight into some light land this morning

 

[Brisel]

Got enough hp for the job?

 

[Jolly]

Ha yes it’s been on it all winter seemed a shame to take it off and park it in the shed
It’s a tractor from the days of maximum tillage!!!

 

[CornishTone]

Spring oats going into diverse cover residue with DTS, after sheep grazed it off. Went in pretty well.

 

[average farmer]

I’m rolling some more cloddy seedbeds twice, once with a Carrier with the discs up just using the shouldered press rings. Where we had sheep on turnips all winter the top 2” is a hard crust that doesn’t break up but what’s underneath is in great condition with enough moisture to put the seed in.

we used to roll in sometimes with the carrier when we had a claydon, straw Harrow in discs out or just touching. made a good job.

 

[Bill Turtle]

There is a lovely simplicity to this drill. Spring Beans
Into capped autumn trio’d land.

 

[Fish]

Spring barley into failed rape

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Spring barley into failed rapeView attachment 867446View attachment 867445

How hard is it? Have found any of our land without a carpet of cover set like stone

 

[Fish]

Yes it’s quite hard, but it’s going in ok. Hard crust on top, plastic underneath, only drilling at 3 cm.

 

[clbarclay]

Where stubble is short and cover thin it is getting a crust here now, but I finally seem to have a drill that can work well in these conditions (trailed GD). Still fairly moist where there is a long stubble or green cover.

 

[pine_guy]

New (to me) toy ???

 

[Brisel]

Planet spring barley sown 22nd March into moisture. Just starting to emerge now.

 

[Villagefarmer]

Hi All,
This winter was my first attempt at a cover crop. Very simple mix of oats, phecilia and volunteers. As you can see
Below its looks fairly rough after the Mzuri went through it. The roots of the oats had kept togther which clearly I undrestand thats what they will do but it made for a rough looking seedbed. Is this normal in the early years of cover crops?
I ran the rake over it and rolled it which helped

Any thoughts

 

[Shutesy]

Hi All,
This winter was my first attempt at a cover crop. Very simple mix of oats, phecilia and volunteers. As you can see
Below its looks fairly rough after the Mzuri went through it. The roots of the oats had kept togther which clearly I undrestand thats what they will do but it made for a rough looking seedbed. Is this normal in the early years of cover crops?
I ran the rake over it and rolled it which helped

Any thoughts View attachment 868361

What sort of soil type and what were you drilling? Looks a bit smeary. I often avoid to many grass species in a cover crop on heavy land as they dont let it dry out enough in the spring I find.

 

[Jolly]

Hi All,
This winter was my first attempt at a cover crop. Very simple mix of oats, phecilia and volunteers. As you can see
Below its looks fairly rough after the Mzuri went through it. The roots of the oats had kept togther which clearly I undrestand thats what they will do but it made for a rough looking seedbed. Is this normal in the early years of cover crops?
I ran the rake over it and rolled it which helped

Any thoughts View attachment 868361

Have had to lightly work cover crop fields in front of Mzuri this year to make a decent job normally they are sprayed off and gone but they are holding moisture this season which we’ll need to later ?

 

[Villagefarmer]

What sort of soil type and what were you drilling? Looks a bit smeary. I often avoid to many grass species in a cover crop on heavy land as they dont let it dry out enough in the spring I find.

We are on medium/ heavy clay OGM 4%. I was drilling spring barley at 380s/m. I left the field a day then raked and rolled it

 

[cquick]

Drilling peas today on the green

 

[Brisel]

Elyann spring oats sown 31/3/20 emerging nicely. Claydon Hybrid direct into a sprayed off cover crop. Had to run the topper over some of the taller spring barley volunteers just so they didn’t block the drill up. A few bald spots where the soil type is clay cap and the clods are bigger which then left the seed dry. Not much I can do now without rain but most of it is up.