Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Shutesy]

Few spring crop pics:
Planet S Barley, FSS, DTS sown at 220kg/ha end of March into failed OSR.

Daytona S Peas sown with the DTS at the beginning of April at 275kg/ha into disced and pressed wheat stubble.

Bionature nutrition trial going onto the peas this morning, first of 4 applications.

Will get some pics of more barley and beans in the next few days.

 

[clbarclay]

Direct drilling our hectare of pumpkins into standing rye.

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How easy is it to calibrate that metering system?

 

[cquick]

How easy is it to calibrate that metering system?

Not as hard as you might think
The squeaking you can hear is a siren attached to a reed switch, responding to magnets placed on the wheel.
As long as the operator has put down 3 seeds every time they hear the chirp, it works out to 1 seed per row every 80cm.
At 1.2m row spacing that's pretty much 1 plant per square metre

 

[Badshot]

View attachment 875517View attachment 875518View attachment 875519View attachment 875520View attachment 875521View attachment 875522View attachment 875523A few photos taken today (3/5) peas, linseed, s barley and beans, although we've only had around 4mm in the last 7 weeks, most crops appear to be growing ok.
Photo 6 is interesting, the shot is taken looking up the headland and standing on the headland tramline, which is very difficult to spot. This field has not had any form of cultivation for 5 years, not even the straw rake and the headland has always been the headland for years, yep looks like it's bugge*d I'll have to get the subsoiler out.

Before I subsoiled, I'd try a year drilling with my KV time drill.
Headlands always seem ok drilled with that.

 

[clbarclay]

I suspect I would have got rather fed up of that squeak before the end of the first run, but that does sound simple and effective.

 

[Brisel]

A scruffy terrier sat in my spring oats sown in late March this evening. Do I need to consider another beefy pgr? It has had 0.15 Moddus already so far. Getting teb and Starane XL for broad leafed weeds tomorrow.

Planet spring barley sown 3 days later

 

[Young Apprentice]

A scruffy terrier sat in my spring oats sown in late March this evening. Do I need to consider another beefy pgr? It has had 0.15 Moddus already so far. Getting teb and Starane XL for broad leafed weeds tomorrow.
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Planet spring barley sown 3 days later

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They do look a picture!?!

YA

 

[redsloe]

A scruffy terrier sat in my spring oats sown in late March this evening. Do I need to consider another beefy pgr? It has had 0.15 Moddus already so far. Getting teb and Starane XL for broad leafed weeds tomorrow.
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Planet spring barley sown 3 days later

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Looking nice.
Are your companions not trustworthy enough to go crop walking off the lead!

 

[d williams]

Vertigo spring beans at 300kgs/ha end April drilled

 

[d williams]

Vertigo spring beans at 300kgs/ha end April drilled

Mzuri drill

 

[Badshot]

End of April?
In the ground a month and they're a foot high already?
Mine take 3 weeks to a month to come up.

 

[d williams]

End of April?
In the ground a month and they're a foot high already?
Mine take 3 weeks to a month to come up.

End March beginning April sorry

 

[Badshot]

End March beginning April sorry

Ah, that's better, thought you must have found some magic beans

 

[Brisel]

Looking nice.
Are your companions not trustworthy enough to go crop walking off the lead!

The brown one does occasionally but the Jack Russell will come back when it's ready to 2-24 hours later.

 

[Two Tone]

King’s Moir mix Winter Bird Food drilled 10 days ago with this

and rolled with this

is coming up!

Goodness knows how?

No rain, high temperatures and winds ever since it was drilled. But the secret was not losing the moisture it had by doing any cultivation’s beforehand.

 

[cquick]

Plenty of moisture under the crust. Linseed seems to be loving life with very little nibbling due to the camouflage.

 

[CornishTone]

Bugger all moisture under some pastures around here...

But the wheat is flying...

 

[Brisel]

DTS sown wheat @CornishTone ?

 

[CornishTone]

DTS sown wheat @CornishTone ?

Yup.

 

[WHF]

Spring Barley drilled the 26th March, Sumo Dts, after stubble turnips, previous crop being wheat with the intention of putting in a 2nd wheat after grass in December/Jan but it was just to wet. First spring with the Dts having purchased a used 4 meter in January. Very impressed. Mid Dorset.

Spring Barley after rape due to the field being heavy and the wheat never being drilled unfortunately.