Flat wheat

[db9go]

In these increasing regulation days of farming how are we supposed to deal with flat wheat stubble and if you want to go in to DD how do the drills cop with long flat stubble.
Are we aloud to burn small areas of flat stubble
With all this carbon talk or do we disc it to mix it up.

 

[DrWazzock]

Leave it till spring, let nature do the work. Drill a spring crop straight in when it’s rotted.

 

[DrWazzock]

Long flat stubble actually works better with my drill than a lot of loosened dry fluff.
having said that we are presently discing wheat stubbles in a vain attempt to get a chit before drilling winter barley. We must be mad. We will plough after the chit but forecast dry as a bone but drizzly. Should have stuck to my spring barley rule but we want to spread the workload next year.

 

[wanton dwarf]

In these increasing regulation days of farming how are we supposed to deal with flat wheat stubble and if you want to go in to DD how do the drills cop with long flat stubble.
Are we aloud to burn small areas of flat stubble
With all this carbon talk or do we disc it to mix it up.

I think you can burn a busted bale or similar problem area.

We've flail mowed problem areas this year to try and get a good chit, work in progress as regards results.

 

[bobk]

They haven't banned ploughing

 

[wanton dwarf]

Long flat stubble actually works better with my drill than a lot of loosened dry fluff.
having said that we are presently discing wheat stubbles in a vain attempt to get a chit before drilling winter barley. We must be mad. We will plough after the chit but forecast dry as a bone but drizzly. Should have stuck to my spring barley rule but we want to spread the workload next year.

Yep, trying to do the same. Need a bit of rain really. Old man is already getting nervous about timing.

 

[wanton dwarf]

They haven't banned ploughing

Shhhh.

 

[bobk]

Shhhh.

No point making a rod for yourself .

 

[DrWazzock]

Ground is like concrete. Trying to get a wheat chit before drilling winter barley is not easy. I was considering ploughing but it will bury wheat volunteer seed which will come up in the barley delayed. I’m thinking disc, paraplow, disc, power Harrow, spray off, drill as late as I can.
Could plough but it will bring up blocks and dry it out and possibly move the volunteer emergence past the barley drilling date.
If only it would rain I could leave it alone to chit, plough, power Harrow drill. Can I even get any glyphosate?
Or just leave it and put it in with spring barley.

 

[Farmer Roy]

In these increasing regulation days of farming how are we supposed to deal with flat wheat stubble and if you want to go in to DD how do the drills cop with long flat stubble.
Are we aloud to burn small areas of flat stubble
With all this carbon talk or do we disc it to mix it up.

we would just leave it & plant straight into it - disc planters work a lot better in this scenario than tynes

 

[Derrick Hughes]

In these increasing regulation days of farming how are we supposed to deal with flat wheat stubble and if you want to go in to DD how do the drills cop with long flat stubble.
Are we aloud to burn small areas of flat stubble
With all this carbon talk or do we disc it to mix it up.

Run a mower through it and bale it ,

 

[tr250]

In these increasing regulation days of farming how are we supposed to deal with flat wheat stubble and if you want to go in to DD how do the drills cop with long flat stubble.
Are we aloud to burn small areas of flat stubble
With all this carbon talk or do we disc it to mix it up.

I find that Dd actually makes the surface harder and more level without bringing stones up so you can actually run lifters on the ground without bulldozing which solves the problem as you can lift it into the combine