Just highlights how different soils need different management - the only moved soil I have at the moment is a block carrierd and rolled after biosolids and compost application - despite being light soil it would need a week of dry to be fit to drill now - the unmoved stubbles would all go tomorrow if I really wanted to though
Getting concerned
- Thread starter Mr Charisma
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Just highlights how different soils need different management - the only moved soil I have at the moment is a block carrierd and rolled after biosolids and compost application - despite being light soil it would need a week of dry to be fit to drill now - the unmoved stubbles would all go tomorrow if I really wanted to though
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Will be a fortnight before I even consider spraying the rubbish off now.
- Location
- Northumberland
Been on ploughing and combi'ing ley ground into wheat. For once, turning up moist, rather than needing battered down for a week. It might roll in the morning.
On the flip side, stubbles that were drilled last weekend are partly rolled, having been blocked out by sticky headlands, which have now evolved into the final course of dinner. Sprayed a field last night; closed eyes as went past it this morning.
On the flip side, stubbles that were drilled last weekend are partly rolled, having been blocked out by sticky headlands, which have now evolved into the final course of dinner. Sprayed a field last night; closed eyes as went past it this morning.
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Guessing the unmoved stuff is fairly light though as well?
Guessing the unmoved stuff is fairly light though as well?
Not all of it no
Although a lot of what we farm is light or medium loams it’s certainly not all so easy
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Fair enough, and agree that unmoved stuff with reasonable structure days far quicker than worked soil..
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
All fields unmoved here.....tried a bit this afternoon and it went well, until the next set of 3-4 showers arrived!
Two dry days together and we’d be going though but even that isn’t looking likely.
Has someone still got a combine out or something...? This is harvest weather!
Two dry days together and we’d be going though but even that isn’t looking likely.
Has someone still got a combine out or something...? This is harvest weather!
spikeislander
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- Location
- bedfordshire
It must just me a locality thing but around here I’m not and most others don’t seem worried yet ?
Didn’t want to be drilling for 3 weeks yet ideally so time to dry up and even after weekends rain we’d be in a bigger fix if we had none !
Need this rain to chit bg and break up clods so still looking at it as a positive [emoji1303]
Didn’t want to be drilling for 3 weeks yet ideally so time to dry up and even after weekends rain we’d be in a bigger fix if we had none !
Need this rain to chit bg and break up clods so still looking at it as a positive [emoji1303]
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
From reading the responses here it seems as always that if you have good draining soil then there is no worry , just a bit of patience
But I still stand by my first post , with only 2 dry days forecast in the next 14 I'm still concerned , modged in barley and wheat on this land never does well
But looking at it from another angle , with what I have in the grain stores from this harvest would be greater than the sum total of 2012 and 2013 put together
But I still stand by my first post , with only 2 dry days forecast in the next 14 I'm still concerned , modged in barley and wheat on this land never does well
But looking at it from another angle , with what I have in the grain stores from this harvest would be greater than the sum total of 2012 and 2013 put together
Pleased mines all on the ground and coming through went I to lovely conditions we are heavy land some opencast ground walking over it now it would take some drying to sow was always told after the 1st week of September if it's good to go drill it weather soon turns up here in durham
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Only 2% of our arable land plough anything like the boys ground in the ploughing photos in this thread
Are you direct drilling this year?
How much to you hope to plough a day with that rig? I'm guessing you are clipping along?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Always have for the past 10 years....plan is to this year all being well, but no system will work very well with showers day after day.
Trash is an issue this year-flat barley stubble and chopped bean straw doesn’t flow through the drill when it and the soil is wet.
APJ
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- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
Ground has turned quickly to wet considering how dry it was only a week ago, I’m not rushing or worrying what won’t go in tidy will wait for spring, don’t like puddling crops in they never do well.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
As much as i can!!!! It depends how much other buggering about I have to do with pigs/kids etc.
The flexicoil is 6ft and I always like to take a full width If possible, I draw along up hill and down dale at 8 km/h all day long so I recon between 2.5-3 acre hour on decent longish going.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I've been out soil sampling near Alford and under a rapidly drying couple of inches of slop it's still quite dry.
Trouble is Robbie you burn the metal away fast , 6/7 k in some fields and points burn you with the flint