Drilling now

John

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Location
Cambridge
Started on our best bits yesterday at 185kg/ha, on the heavy stuff now 200kg/ha propino. Going in quite well should finish Monday then 30ha spring wheat to do, Then roll it.
 

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Andrew K

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Lots of images of drills going on social media. Fog this morning stopped liquid fertiliser on wheat. At 2pm the crop is still wet, so although it is warm, it is not drying at all. Ripping game strips next week so I'll see how they come up but I don't see it being fit to drill for another week yet. What we need here is sun and wind to strip the moisture out of the topsoil.
We always found spring strip till difficult,esp with cover crops.
Our clays drain like a bath with the plug in!
 
Was thinking about this the other day. Some of our best crops of spring barley have been sown while its actually snowing!

Just coincidence I'm sure.
Didn’t quite go to plan seed went in well and snow came which was then soposed to be around for a bit me thinking it would insult and allow seed to germinate but snow came and went along with a pissload rain it’s just poking it’s head through now so time will tell
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Glad got in with last heatwave slot,as can not walk on fields now as like a bog ?

Same here, spring barley drilled a week ago. Just putting roots out nicely, don’t think I would get back into it till April. Bloody glad I didn’t roll it though or that would be a mess.

Jan drilled wheat got a load of water stood in it but at worst it will get sprayed off and redrilled with some barley I have left over
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Plenty of wet looking fields here showing it was not dry enough in some fields
A week earlier does not trump cold and wet on heavy land

Nope but mine went in lovely and as long as we don't get a spring like last year it will be fine. Waiting for it to dry out again to get as good as conditions could be late April though.
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
It must be real compromise these days for those of you with serious blackgrass problem especially if you farm drought prone souls , whether to drill early IF ideal conditions but end up with a carpet of blackgrass,or wait till late ideal conditions but crops yield reduced by drought rather than blackgrass:scratchhead::scratchhead:
Thank goodness when I was farming 20 yrs ago on extremely thin Cotswold Trash, blackgrass was of no concern.
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
It must be real compromise these days for those of you with serious blackgrass problem especially if you farm drought prone souls , whether to drill early IF ideal conditions but end up with a carpet of blackgrass,or wait till late ideal conditions but crops yield reduced by drought rather than blackgrass:scratchhead::scratchhead:
Thank goodness when I was farming 20 yrs ago on extremely thin Cotswold Trash, blackgrass was of no concern.

Our medium to light land is always easier in spring cropping. Even in the dry last year it out yielded the heavy stuff. Went in better, didn't bake like concrete and the roots get down easier. The snotty stuff is either too wet or too dry in spring and very rarely is it easy.
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
Our medium to light land is always easier in spring cropping. Even in the dry last year it out yielded the heavy stuff. Went in better, didn't bake like concrete and the roots get down easier. The snotty stuff is either too wet or too dry in spring and very rarely is it easy.
Every farm is different,and farmed accordingly . One thing for sure in Farming and that is no two years are the same and nothing is set in tablets of stone.
Off topic a few years ago, I thought some commodity brokers were going to buy up farmland and show us how farming should be done, but I think they may have had second thoughts, as easier to exploit those who are farming without the worry of farming themselves:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 

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