Grain and Fertiliser Drills

[Selectamatic]

Combined Seed Drills, Fertiliser Placement.

Have they fallen out of favour everywhere? To my knowledge I am the only one in the area to use one.

Why is this? Many praise it for being a good way to establish cereals, but no one bothers with them any more...

We are talking small box type drills here, not 1000hp suitable stuff!

 

[spin cycle]

slow is the reason i think they fell outta favour

 

[two-cylinder]

Cleaning Fert box after every use was a chore

 

[Lincsman]

Try fert going down the spout on a foggy November morning.

 

[quattro]

Majority of drills up here are grain and fert

 

[MrNoo]

Our old Massey drills were fert/seed. Vaddy do the 3m Box drill with fert (option) but I just put the spinner on and spin some on, started doing this 3 years ago and has worked well.

 

[glasshouse]

Majority of drills up here are grain and fert

You guys are so tight, you cant bear the thought of a single prill going in the hedge!!

 

[ajd132]

Both mine are grain and fert

 

[quattro]

You guys are so tight, you cant bear the thought of a single prill going in the hedge!!

Didn’t say I was g and f

 

[glasshouse]

Didn’t say I was g and f

Be careful what you say , that could be taken as a statement about your gender or orientation.

 

[marshallfarm]

2 out of our 3 drills are grain fert. Rather than a split rear hopper we run grain in drill hopper and fert in front hopper