Drilling turnips during hot weather

Derrick Hughes

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Delivered seed up here this morning
Sheep had brown scarfs on😂
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ajcc

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Livestock Farmer
Me, I’m going cultivating and broadcasting in the dust today....it’s all getting too close to being too late.
It can sit there until it rains and chit and desiccate or it can get lucky.
I don’t have a drill and contractor drill likely be long list of better customers when right conditions come too late.
Maybe thicken it all up with second seed broadcast in three weeks time??
 

thorpe

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got aneighbor who buys thousands of store lambs he's got acres worked ready to drill waiting for rain , says if he dosnt get em in there wont be any lambs , hes struggling for grass for his ewes. i dont know what he will do with his time!
 
going to do first 40 acre this morning
hope it does rain or it will just sit there in stuff resembling dry building sand
would you roll it or leave in coil will take water better
no moisture even 5 inch down
 

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Derrick Hughes

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What is that for and what rate?
Stubble Turnips mainly , 1.50 kg acre , some sow a bit less , the stubble farmers with big acres to do seem to want stubble turnips , the small acre farms are more interested in brassica mixes , cost I suppose , nothing works out cheaper per acre than Turnips
 

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