Drilling progress 2018

[EJS]

Started our spring barley today - lovely day in kent.

 

[milton-95]

Barley going in well here,

Grounds drying out quick though. Plenty dust coming off the rollers.

About half way through our bit,
Quite a bit of ground still to start too round here though.

 

[Wombat]

Popped 17 acres in this aft, rather snotty with some brick sized clods but it would either bake like concrete if it didn't rain or not get in if it rains so it's in. Hopefully rolling tomorrow will smash it up a bit

 

[tw15]

3ha of spring barley to do and 8 ha of soya left to do yippee

 

[sodbuster]

3rd day sowing and 125ac in. Not bad going for a 3m combi! Seed beds are better than ever. 3cwt 16-16-16 so7.5 In the seed bed just need the rollers on now. 20ac to drill on sunday but just ploughed today so drying

 

[DrWazzock]

Spring barley and oats finished. Half the beet done. Just one field,of beet left to drill. Been ripped up and drying. Should soon be ready for a bashing with the power harrow.

 

[Brisel]

3ha of spring barley to do and 8 ha of soya left to do yippee

Nice one. Still 800ac to do here!

Sent one drill away. Headlands are still soaking and ploughing up in plasticine slabs. Light land going well.

 

[Pilatus]

Great to see that most of your are making progress. For goodness sake do not push yourself too far without some sleep,especially the one man operation guys.
NO APOLOGIES FOR SOUNDING LIKE AN OLD WOMAN.
"NO HEROES IN FARMING ONLY FOOLS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT HAVE A FATAL ACCIDENT DUE TO FATIGUE".
It is not only your life it is the family that you leave behind that matter.

 

[tw15]

Been on dd drilling today with a friend drilling with a nice light weight tsa100 pulling a 4 mtr moores and I was rolling behind some was rolled within 10 mins of drilling hardly any moisture loss. Early drillings up in the row now even the bit we dd in the rain and thought we pushed our luck with is looking fine not a lot of compaction from wheelings. Some with well worked seedbeds are now seeing a lot of wheelings and some have redrilled compacted headlands about the area .

 

[Pilatus]

Been on dd drilling today with a friend drilling with a nice light weight tsa100 pulling a 4 mtr moores and I was rolling behind some was rolled within 10 mins of drilling hardly any moisture loss. Early drillings up in the row now even the bit we dd in the rain and thought we pushed our luck with is looking fine not a lot of compaction from wheelings. Some with well worked seedbeds are now seeing a lot of wheelings and some have redrilled compacted headlands about the area .

When were the "early drillings " you mention planted?
Hope you manage to get drilled up soon.

 

[Renaultman]

Disced my 10ha over winter stubble for beans, though it wouldn't go, but had dust and everything. Fingers crossed they could be in at the weekend.

Disced my 10ha over winter stubble for beans, though it wouldn't go, but had dust and everything. Fingers crossed they could be in at the weekend.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Been on dd drilling today with a friend drilling with a nice light weight tsa100 pulling a 4 mtr moores and I was rolling behind some was rolled within 10 mins of drilling hardly any moisture loss. Early drillings up in the row now even the bit we dd in the rain and thought we pushed our luck with is looking fine not a lot of compaction from wheelings. Some with well worked seedbeds are now seeing a lot of wheelings and some have redrilled compacted headlands about the area .

Why roll after the Moore? Doesn't the press wheel behind the coulter do sufficient consolidation?

 

[Bossfarmer]

It'll be through the ground in 4-5 days if warm. Have seen it take 3 weeks when cold and wet, so not really that far behind.

Next question will be how much N to give malting barley. Will shorter growing season mean we should reduce total N applied?

Ready for heat next week. Silage ground had all its fertiliser now.

less N will instantly mean a smaller crop?

 

[Will7]

Nice one. Still 800ac to do here!

Sent one drill away. Headlands are still soaking and ploughing up in plasticine slabs. Light land going well.

Plenty of time yet. It doesn’t seem to take half as long when the dust is flying.

I thought you were all Claydon now? The worked land is drying a lot faster than the dd land. It is still wet on the surface

 

[Brisel]

Plenty of time yet. It doesn’t seem to take half as long when the dust is flying.

I thought you were all Claydon now? The worked land is drying a lot faster than the dd land. It is still wet on the surface

I have 104 ac of heavy land that wouldn't dry out in time for DD spring beans with the Claydon so I thought I'd remind myself why I hate ploughing by doing some then getting a contractor in with a p/h combination. No doubt my impatience will be repaid by a pee poor bean crop with a few undrilled wet headlands! Never mind - I've got lapwings looking for nesting sites so they can enjoy the clods!

The Claydon is flying up and down lighter ground right now putting Laureate barley in. Stuff drilled 8 days ago is emerging.

 

[warksfarmer]

To dry here now!

 

[bankrupt]

No doubt my impatience will be repaid by a pee poor bean crop with a few undrilled wet headlands! Never mind -
.

No doubt you'll let us know in due course, Brisel, should your expectations, due to this very strange season, be reversed.

 

[juke]

I have 104 ac of heavy land that wouldn't dry out in time for DD spring beans with the Claydon so I thought I'd remind myself why I hate ploughing by doing some then getting a contractor in with a p/h combination. No doubt my impatience will be repaid by a pee poor bean crop with a few undrilled wet headlands! Never mind - I've got lapwings looking for nesting sites so they can enjoy the clods!

The Claydon is flying up and down lighter ground right now putting Laureate barley in. Stuff drilled 8 days ago is emerging.

9 k best drilling speed for not ridging too much or bringing too much up from underneath

 

[tw15]

Nice one. Still 800ac to d

When were the "early drillings " you mention planted?
Hope you manage to get drilled up soon.

We started just over a fortnight ago but got rained of a couple of times just like everyone else around here . The bit we really pushed our luck with was dd into old stubble turnip ground that had sheep on over winter and it really was getting quite tacky by the time we had the headland in so doing the last 30 odd acres of the field was a bit risky and to top it all it would be by the main road so all would see our cockups. Now all is in apart from 8 ha of soya to try 99% has liquid fert on infront of the drill and some had its pre em some post em to do .

 

[tw15]

Why roll after the Moore? Doesn't the press wheel behind the coulter do sufficient consolidation?

Yep I know what you mean just to level of and make a nice fine top for pre em to work best.