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How Do I Avoid the Wet Winter Slump?
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<blockquote data-quote="kc6475" data-source="post: 7596166" data-attributes="member: 56908"><p>This all comes down to how well your land drains, we have a similar dilemma, after having all the farm in spring crops last year and half this then the conclusion I've come to is any land that is poor draining won't be ploughed any more for Spring crops, in a wet winter it just sits wet and come spring by the time you can get on it its concrete on top and a pudding underneath. we bought a shakerator a few years back and now probably 70% of land is ploughed and the rest done with the shakerator, the bean stubbles was done with the shakerator last backend ready for winter wheat, but never got chance to drill them but did get Spring tined up hoping to dry it out enough to drill. This spring I went back in and Spring tined the majority up again just leaving the really heavy clay patches and went straight into that with the power harrow, then drilled with the combi with the ph stuck in deep. The spring wheat looks great on land done with the shakerator and Spring tined before winter, the ploughed land that sat wet is no where near as good and suffered with all the rain in May.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kc6475, post: 7596166, member: 56908"] This all comes down to how well your land drains, we have a similar dilemma, after having all the farm in spring crops last year and half this then the conclusion I've come to is any land that is poor draining won't be ploughed any more for Spring crops, in a wet winter it just sits wet and come spring by the time you can get on it its concrete on top and a pudding underneath. we bought a shakerator a few years back and now probably 70% of land is ploughed and the rest done with the shakerator, the bean stubbles was done with the shakerator last backend ready for winter wheat, but never got chance to drill them but did get Spring tined up hoping to dry it out enough to drill. This spring I went back in and Spring tined the majority up again just leaving the really heavy clay patches and went straight into that with the power harrow, then drilled with the combi with the ph stuck in deep. The spring wheat looks great on land done with the shakerator and Spring tined before winter, the ploughed land that sat wet is no where near as good and suffered with all the rain in May. [/QUOTE]
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