Drilling anyone?

Norfolk Olly

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Spring barley going in after strawed carrots, going well considering theres 35 hestons/acre on there ?
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DrWazzock

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Lincolnshire
Well the third of my beet on very heavy land is just about the written off. Either split and died at germination or now the seedlings are dying off through lack of moisture. Granted it was a rubbish seedbed but if we had had some rain it would have been reasonable. Not sure whether to power harrow it to death now to get it finer and redrill and roll before rain or just leave it. I have some spare seed. Utterly sick and fed up of this year in every year. I will redrill as much beet I have spare seed for to use it up then I don’t think I will bother ever again. This winter it was the harvest from hell and now the stuff won’t grow because it’s too dry. Much more of this shite and I won’t be bothering cropping this place at all. It’s become nigh on impossible.
 
Beats 50% of the fields in this area. If all of mine looked like that I would be like a dog with 2 dicks

We took a slightly different approach to most folk around here , we put the power Harrow straight into last autumns triod land , it was hard work on the power Harrow but we got a reasonable seedbed and the drill was always close behind to conserve moisture , a fair few put pigtail cultivators in and then power harrow but lost a lot of moisture , but we did have one field which we didn’t get right , altered the pressure on the outside wings of the vaddy , which put the wings in a bit deeper but lifted the main centre section out a bit , so we will have 2 stages of germination , ?

I suppose I ought to take a photo of our mishap but I will counter act it with a photo of our best field ?
I’ve also got a photo of our direct drilled barley but the phone won’t upload it
 
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teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
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Lincolnshire
We took a slightly different approach to most folk around here , we put the power Harrow straight into last autumns triod land , it was hard work on the power Harrow but we got a reasonable seedbed and the drill was always close behind to conserve moisture , a fair few put pigtail cultivators in and then power harrow but lost a lot of moisture , but we did have one field which we didn’t get right , altered the pressure on the outside wings of the baddy , which put the wings in a bit deeper but lifted the main centre section out a bit , so we will have 2 stages of germination , ?

I suppose I ought to take a photo of our mishap but I will counter act it with a photo of our best field ?
I’ve also got a photo of our direct drilled barley but the phone won’t upload it

This is what we did. Powrrharrow, vaderstad, rolled at pretty much the same time.

I think the problem is that I live next to the fields so see them several times a day so don't notice any changes. Dad says they are coming steadily.
 

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