Drilling progress 2018

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
9 k best drilling speed for not ridging too much or bringing too much up from underneath

9 kph? No chance. I'll need another week at that speed! The ridging starts over 12 kph so I'm playing with the paddles on the back to try and reduce it.
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
Off topic.
Are you now back to wet land after tonight’s deluge?
I do hope you escaped it from where I was working at Tetbury and at home GL7 area,a real deluge of rain.
 

patrick4

Member
Got going on thursday slow to dry out @ depth. 30 acres of barley sowed and 14 acres of potatoes. Ground starting to bake out.went from muck to dust in 5 days still a long way to go . Not all fields fit to plough yet .Spread 500 kgs 13/6/20+s +30 units of nitrogen per ha spread on ploughing pre barley sowing
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Off topic.
Are you now back to wet land after tonight’s deluge?
I do hope you escaped it from where I was working at Tetbury and at home GL7 area,a real deluge of rain.
Had that storm come over, dumped 7mm rain in very short order, most spectacular lightening display I have seen in a long while!!! Almost up together here, just 20 acres of Mulika left to drill. Went up to Leicester today and an awful lot of ground not drilled up, could see where some had tried ploughing but stopped as it looked too wet, only saw 2 drills going, a Quadtrack/Vaddy and a small 3m combi and that was it!!
 

T Hectares

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Berkshire
7mm last night and spectacular lighting with it...only have 9ha to go, hopefully finish it this afternoon fingers crossed.

Then 90ha of contracting from tomorrow for my Organic neighbour who wanted to drill between the 23rd and 26th as that's one of the best Lunar calendar dates she's seen, so don't panic everyone !!
 

fred.950

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wiltshire
9 kph? No chance. I'll need another week at that speed! The ridging starts over 12 kph so I'm playing with the paddles on the back to try and reduce it.

I hope you have more success with that than me. I found that as soon as you adjusted them to do anything useful they would drag heaps but that might just be because of our light ground.
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
Had that storm come over, dumped 7mm rain in very short order, most spectacular lightening display I have seen in a long

As you say,the most spectacular sheet lighting and fork lightning I can remember seeing.Especially the flashes of lightening that seemed short in length and not going to earth.
 

T Hectares

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Berkshire
It's just occurred to me that when the Spring campaign is finished it will complete my 20th consecutive season of drilling !!
I had a tot up of what acres I have covered in that time and reckon it's about 43,000....

There's been some terrible autumns in there, 2000 / 2008 / 2012 and now the horrendous spring of 2018 :eek:
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
It's just occurred to me that when the Spring campaign is finished it will complete my 20th consecutive season of drilling !!
I had a tot up of what acres I have covered in that time and reckon it's about 43,000....

There's been some terrible autumns in there, 2000 / 2008 / 2012 and now the horrendous spring of 2018 :eek:

all multiples of 4 ;-) here is looking forward to 2020 / 2022 !
 

ploughman

Member
Location
South Lincs
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Trophee vining peas on silt land, excellent conditions 20ha left to drill and then start on spuds tomorrow.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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