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How are you going to drill winter /spring crops when it drys up
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 6742117" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I think on balance "direct drill" using Moore Unidrill. Some will be after failed OSR so it has already been mintilled in the autumn, has weathered and looks like it will go nicely direct with the Moore after spraying off.</p><p>The light land stubbles should direct drill well after spraying off. The heavy land stubbles which arent a huge area might be left as fallow. They were subsoiled while dry last summer so have taken the water well but are smothered in blackgrass and quite rough and lumpy. Maybe wait till dryish, spray off and power harrow and Moore. Ploughing them will bring up huge blocks that generally set like concrete or slump back to marzipan and power harrow into cobbles. I bet there will be another big chit of BG though, hence the fallow might be better. Not a big area. Might even pen it off and grass it down as its an utter pain every year and difficult to match in with the management of the adjacent sand in the same field.</p><p></p><p>Its all about conserving moisture, not bring up or creating huge clods and not ending up with it too unconsolidated or making it difficult to reconsolidate on the sand, so I am erring away from ploughing the later it gets.</p><p></p><p>Some folk locally are ploughing bits of light land a few acres at a time then Vaddying it in but it looks a right old clat to me with bits and pieces, undrilled headlands and part fields all over the shop. Could make timings difficult later and its rook feast time but at least they have some wheat in, presumably.</p><p></p><p>I am not worried yet. It will all be spring barley off the heap anyway. That was sort of my plan even before the wet autumn as cost of growing wheat with disappointing returns on droughty light land makes it marginally worthwhile and not a great payer in a dry year, making an annual mockery of the great big fungicide spend. Normally runs out of moisture in June whereas for some reason direct drilled spring barley seems to cope much better and with a fraction of the chemical spend. Spring oats are a waste of time though, again dry out and don't fill. Gramaphone needles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 6742117, member: 2119"] I think on balance "direct drill" using Moore Unidrill. Some will be after failed OSR so it has already been mintilled in the autumn, has weathered and looks like it will go nicely direct with the Moore after spraying off. The light land stubbles should direct drill well after spraying off. The heavy land stubbles which arent a huge area might be left as fallow. They were subsoiled while dry last summer so have taken the water well but are smothered in blackgrass and quite rough and lumpy. Maybe wait till dryish, spray off and power harrow and Moore. Ploughing them will bring up huge blocks that generally set like concrete or slump back to marzipan and power harrow into cobbles. I bet there will be another big chit of BG though, hence the fallow might be better. Not a big area. Might even pen it off and grass it down as its an utter pain every year and difficult to match in with the management of the adjacent sand in the same field. Its all about conserving moisture, not bring up or creating huge clods and not ending up with it too unconsolidated or making it difficult to reconsolidate on the sand, so I am erring away from ploughing the later it gets. Some folk locally are ploughing bits of light land a few acres at a time then Vaddying it in but it looks a right old clat to me with bits and pieces, undrilled headlands and part fields all over the shop. Could make timings difficult later and its rook feast time but at least they have some wheat in, presumably. I am not worried yet. It will all be spring barley off the heap anyway. That was sort of my plan even before the wet autumn as cost of growing wheat with disappointing returns on droughty light land makes it marginally worthwhile and not a great payer in a dry year, making an annual mockery of the great big fungicide spend. Normally runs out of moisture in June whereas for some reason direct drilled spring barley seems to cope much better and with a fraction of the chemical spend. Spring oats are a waste of time though, again dry out and don't fill. Gramaphone needles. [/QUOTE]
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