Drilling Maize

[vinnie123]

Will have too wait until after the season before work can start. Will get them flailed, plastered with muck and worked early spring before lambing with a bit of luck

Don’t rush to drill it early, especially for cover crop , wait till the soil temp is up and it will jump out the ground. Weed control is key !

 

[sticky]

I drill my maize cover crops with an old krm air drill with only the back row of coulter's working.
Last year I plastered it with sh1t, put a bomford superflow, rotterred it then drilled on the 29th of May. It's grown very well.
Wait for the weather and watch for slugs. If it's too thick run the quad through it for some beating lines .

 

[sjt01]

Why do so many talk of needing 75 cm spacing? This was purely when the old type harvesters which had torpedo headers were used. For game cover row spacing is totally irrelevant, and for forage crops with row independent harvesting also. I think sweetcorn requires a different system altogether to get sun on the cobs.
What is important is plant population, and seed depth. Particularly if seed treatments are lost, we will have to drill at 4" deep to avoid crows eating the seed.

 

[Will 1594]

Why do so many talk of needing 75 cm spacing? This was purely when the old type harvesters which had torpedo headers were used. For game cover row spacing is totally irrelevant, and for forage crops with row independent harvesting also. I think sweetcorn requires a different system altogether to get sun on the cobs.
What is important is plant population, and seed depth. Particularly if seed treatments are lost, we will have to drill at 4" deep to avoid crows eating the seed.

don’t want rows too close , birds cannot get up through it , so our man says
drill ours with old combo with box drill and 7 rows in 3 m
get it worked early some muck on if you can
. and we do neighbours too and he likes 700 kg of 20,10,10 5 sulphur on his
2/3 ltr of pendometh
don’t be frightened of rolling it after drilling if cloody
and watch for deer grazing it
or bloody pheasants pulling it up just as it coming through
got a piece that got eaten and redrilled in mid june , it’s still green and a good height now but backend been kind , not much cob but good cover
and watch the effie keepers running about on it when wet rutting it and knacker structure , then they expect you to mek silk pos out of pigs lug

 

[Tomo23]

Dale's not do it on the way past to somewhere else?

 

[gloria1]

I usually drill around 16th may for maize game cover, but its subject to ground temperature,this season using Amazon DL.with diverter head to back row of coulters.Main problem was coulters didnt dig in enough and left some seed uncovered,it was then rolled in and has come up quite well.This year I will return to a very old precision drill with tines as it cuts a grove better than the coulters.For game cover dont worry too much about spacing,keepers will drive gaps through it with quad bikes to get feed and flushing points.As clean a seed bed as possible really helps, as maize very weak with fighting weeds as it starts. Post emergant sprays work well but need good moisture which isnt always there.An alternative to Maize is "Utopia "a kale mustard cross that has advantages of being drillable up to mid july and then grows extremely fast, looks like large kale ,and can be easily drilled with combi air drill,v small oil seed rape sized seeds so need to avoid it all falling through in first bout!.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Dale's not do it on the way past to somewhere else?

Apparently it’s too far out on a lim for Anthony too guarantee he can fit it in. When I was first asked I said just ask Daley, offer him a days shooting and it will be fine.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Dale's not do it on the way past to somewhere else?

This was my initial thought. Apparently Anthony says it’s too small a block, too out of the way. No one else grows maize up here. I have pointed out that they should give up growing it too, far better alternatives on the market for their location. But you know what gamekeepers can be like!!

 

[Tomo23]

This was my initial thought. Apparently Anthony says it’s too small a block, too out of the way. No one else grows maize up here. I have pointed out that they should give up growing it too, far better alternatives on the market for their location. But you know what gamekeepers can be like!!

Alan Webb is round that way somewhere isn't he. But like you say if it's not in a maize area then it's out the way for them.