Having never sown grass seed before will an Accord do it ok? I’m thinking mainly about it feeding consistently so we don’t get misses. Seed rate will be 15kg/acre.
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Grass seed and an Accord
- Thread starter warksfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- North Wiltshire
I've used a newer Lely with their own metering system(similar to Accord) and you have the option to slow the gearing down, to leave the metering more open .
I assume you can do this with Accord.
Either drill with coulters well out of the ground or take pipes off.
I assume you can do this with Accord.
Either drill with coulters well out of the ground or take pipes off.
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Will be fine. They were popular up here. We used to take pipes off so it was blowing seed onto ground and not leaving it in lines.
Do you need to run it with the flap moved across like with osr?
RmfJ
Member
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Normal metering and flap settings as for cereals and coulter pressure off with ours, works well.
And when you calibrate do it on the tight side. Old drill used to put maybe 10% more on with suction of fan and vibration going up and down field. . And tie grid up in bottom so it does not bridge on it and put one bag in at a time
deleted user 837354
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You don't need to take the pipes off, just make sure it doesn't go too deep.
- Location
- Northumberland
This. Lift coulter bar as high as possible whilst ensuring metering wheel has a little travel left. Light tickle with following harrow if you can avoid trash dragging.
The slightly mauled in stuff takes better.
- Location
- Anston Farm, Dunsyre
Ballpark setting for 15kg/ acre is 23 on the scale
Normal gearing, and fine seed vanes out of slide (normal cereal setting)
Tried it with Coulter's just tickling, up clear, and with pipes disconnected and cable tied to the side.
Find it's best take pipes off and fan up full. Coulter's clear of the ground ok after a year if it's good tillering seed variety.
Coulter's tickling leaves nice straight lines of grass to follow for years.
Light scuff of following Harrow, chuck on some fert and roll.
Jobs a good un.
- Location
- Cornwall.
Sow at a shallow depth for Red Clover no more than 15mm.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
When growing herbage seed we used 6m accord however would drill half rate twice in two directions to make sure got full coverage in case of blockages/bridging in tank
Vincent
Member
- Location
- Kildare Ireland
deleted user 837354
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If you have your own drill then going twice in opposing directions works well.
If you have blackgrass you need total seed coverage and drill it into the soil. Fastest possible emergence. Ive seen blackgrass swamp out a new ley.
If you have blackgrass you need total seed coverage and drill it into the soil. Fastest possible emergence. Ive seen blackgrass swamp out a new ley.
- Location
- Exe Valley
regarding drilling twice in different directions, what to do on headlands?
Doesn't the PH bury the first drilled pass too deep?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I drilled headlands one way and then the other direction
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