• Welcome to The Farming Forum!

    As part of this update, we have made a change to the login and registration process. If you are experiences any problems, please email [email protected] with the details so we can resolve any issues.

Grass seed and an Accord

warksfarmer

Member
Arable Farmer
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.
 

FG.

Member
Mixed Farmer
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.
 
Last edited:

e3120

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Never bothered taking the pipes of ours, or moving any flaps. Wind the top link right in and take all the pressure off the coulter springs to leave the seed on/just below the surface.
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.
 

DrDunc

Member
Mixed Farmer
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.
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.
 

jondear

Member
Location
Devon
Was going to ask our contractor to do our grass seed 3kg of red clover don't want it to go to deep will it be ok ?He has a new Kuhn driil on powerharrow . Always broadcast before but I ain't got time now to play guessing game sowing it!
 
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.
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Always seemed to have failures when we spun it on in the past, still time, but yet to have a failure since combi drilling grass seeds. Drill shallow and split seed over two diagonal passes, then roll mercilessly.
Doesn't the PH bury the first drilled pass too deep? :cautious:
 
Tags
grass

How is your SFI 24 application progressing?

  • havn't been invited to apply

    Votes: 28 35.9%
  • have been invited to apply

    Votes: 14 17.9%
  • applied but not yet accepted

    Votes: 28 35.9%
  • agreement up and running

    Votes: 8 10.3%

Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

  • 2,410
  • 50
On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
Back
Top