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Karlis

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Arable Farmer
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The beast has finally arrived
 

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CornishTone

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Cornwall
Thought we'd have a bash at putting 10ac of maize in with the DTS this year. Contractor blocked off every other unit and adapted the coulter. DAP down the spout at the same time and cambridge roll after to keep the moisture in.

Maize has a pretty shocking impact on our water courses down here. Grown in crap locations, power harrowed to very fine seedbeds, planted up and down, left bare over winter, you name it, I've seen it. Worth trying to find ways to do it better I think.

Will see how it goes.
 

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Thought we'd have a bash at putting 10ac of maize in with the DTS this year. Contractor blocked off every other unit and adapted the coulter. DAP down the spout at the same time and cambridge roll after to keep the moisture in.

Maize has a pretty shocking impact on our water courses down here. Grown in crap locations, power harrowed to very fine seedbeds, planted up and down, left bare over winter, you name it, I've seen it. Worth trying to find ways to do it better I think.

Will see how it goes.

Can you keep us updated with pictures of this, if it works well could save people a great deal of money.
 

CornishTone

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Graham drilled late Oct with the DTS is having the seal of approval from the trainee agro!
 

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E_B

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Norfolk
Strip till maize here (mzuri) is starting to wake up, although probably will suffer from the rough start to life its had. 140kg of DAP under the seed, the rest of the fertiliser was broadcast onto stubbles before the drill.

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Kind of a cool visual, the new plant climbing up a stalk from two years. Excuse the weeds in this bit...
 

CornishTone

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Strip till maize here (mzuri) is starting to wake up, although probably will suffer from the rough start to life its had. 140kg of DAP under the seed, the rest of the fertiliser was broadcast onto stubbles before the drill.

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Kind of a cool visual, the new plant climbing up a stalk from two years. Excuse the weeds in this bit...
Looks like the Mzuri has kept it in rows and at a more uniform distance between plants than the DTS.

How was the depth control? We found quite a protracted germination due to seed depth.
 

E_B

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Norfolk
Looks like the Mzuri has kept it in rows and at a more uniform distance between plants than the DTS.

How was the depth control? We found quite a protracted germination due to seed depth.

Can't complain about the seed depth to be honest, it's very good on a mzuri. The top photo was drilled in the rain and I had to adjust depth due to soil sticking to the press wheels. Given the following three weeks of weather, I drilled it too deep in hindsight and it took a very long time to emerge. I was expecting this dry spell to come earlier which will teach me for paying attention to the weather prediction models.

Seed spacing is fine for us as we are used to drilling maize with a cereal drill. It does bunch but to be expected. They do offer singulation as an expensive option. We have the slightly older, mushroom style distribution head which will send the seed more down certain pipes if you are on a steep enough slope.

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