Have your, strip drilled (Claydon /Mzuri etc), Zero tilled (JD 750A/Horsch Avatar etc) germinated more evenly than ???
- Thread starter Pilatus
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Very please with a Claydon drill demo I had a few weeks ago,I know if it had been drilled with the short disc then combi drilled it would have completely dried out.
Drilled on the 7/4/20
- Location
- Snodland kent
I would say yes to germinated very evenly (750a) but since rain only 6mm neighbours full tilled crops been have left ours behind behind visually. My hope is ours are developing a strong root structure rather than showing off!
Pilatus
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That’s sounds interesting??
- Location
- Bedfordshire
My crops have all come up very evenly using a Vaderstad Rapide into last autumn's min tilled seedbeds. Many decide to move the ground again in the spring before drilling and then wonder why they have lost all the moisture.
Pilatus
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Recreational tillage comes to mind
- Location
- Bedfordshire
And the wrong drill.
Ground around here went very had on top, even though it was soft underneath.
Ground around here went very had on top, even though it was soft underneath.
- Location
- Dorset/Wiltshire
Claydon was more successful in the Autumn but the Avatar drilled spring crops have done better.
Hard to say. Anyone using any method and equipment to sow seed into moisture at a consistent depth and keep that moisture has done well. Since most of my neighbours are good farmers and soil types aren't what most would describe as really "heavy," there hasn't been a need to get rid of lots of soil moisture.
Since you ask, here's a picture of some oats sown by Claydon in late March direct into a sprayed off cover crop.
Since you ask, here's a picture of some oats sown by Claydon in late March direct into a sprayed off cover crop.
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Is this what you want? This is a photo of my neighbours spring Barley. Ploughed, power harrowed then combi drilled. Fortunately it’s had about 30 mm of rain on it in the last week so I’d expect that the rest will germinate and it’ll be ok. However this is the reason I’d never grow a spring crop on this soil under that regime. For me spring cropping on this land is only an option if it’s dd’ed or only very shallow cultivated.
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- Lincolnshire
How much rain have you had now @Brisel had 12mm now, but its just not enough,still got barley sitting in dust on the lowlandHard to say. Anyone using any method and equipment to sow seed into moisture at a consistent depth and keep that moisture has done well. Since most of my neighbours are good farmers and soil types aren't what most would describe as really "heavy," there hasn't been a need to get rid of lots of soil moisture.
Since you ask, here's a picture of some oats sown by Claydon in late March direct into a sprayed off cover crop.
.Harvest might be interesting if I don't soon get some wet stuff,never thought I'd be saying that after last winter.
How much rain have you had now @Brisel had 12mm now, but its just not enough,still got barley sitting in dust on the lowland
Harvest might be interesting if I don't soon get some wet stuff,never thought I'd be saying that after last winter.
63mm in April, most of that last week.
Before you think I live in the land of milk and honey, bear in mind I lose 2-3 weeks of combining during harvest due to rain and a far bigger drying bill than you get! Some of my patch needs rain every 10 days from now until harvest or starts to burn off with drought.
And I get even worse harvest weather! ?
Do you ever suffer from drought?
Not often, the rain always seems to come just in time.
But just to make out I'm worse off than you I'll say yes!
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
All my crops drilled with gd into moisture generally even emergence
those around cultivated into good fine seed beds are also fine
we have had rain on 4 weekends out of the last 6
2 were 4mm rains that helped Fert spread
if it had been dry for 6 weeks we would have been fine this often happens in a dry April spring rain by mid May
we did slow down on the drill to ensure even depth for beans and rolled 80% of all drilling and mole drained 1/3 some pre drilling some post drilling before roll and finished drilling a week earlier than in 2013
those around cultivated into good fine seed beds are also fine
we have had rain on 4 weekends out of the last 6
2 were 4mm rains that helped Fert spread
if it had been dry for 6 weeks we would have been fine this often happens in a dry April spring rain by mid May
we did slow down on the drill to ensure even depth for beans and rolled 80% of all drilling and mole drained 1/3 some pre drilling some post drilling before roll and finished drilling a week earlier than in 2013
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
deleted user 837354
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Very please with a Claydon drill demo I had a few weeks ago,I know if it had been drilled with the short disc then combi drilled it would have completely dried out.
Drilled on the 7/4/20
That is impressively uniform but that is in warm(er) soil and in spring. In some autumns don't be surprised if it takes a while to come up and looks a bit sore on the eyes for a bit. By spring it soon sorts itself out.
Depending on your dirt of course, I found it really wanted rolling (probably with a roller with boards or little tines) after drilling. Claydon doesn't seem that great in terms of what follows the tines.
- Location
- East Yorkshire
Oats drilled on the 26th of March at 325s/m into wheat stubble with chopped straw. Drilled with a Mzuri
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
What N rates on the oats?
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