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How Do I Avoid the Wet Winter Slump?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7596457" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I have a Polish stubble cultivator which I think is very similar to a Kongskilde Delta. It does a great job on light land making a weatherproof drillable finish in one pass, any time of the year.</p><p>Direct into heavy land in the autumn it’s quite a strain on the legs and brings up some very large lumps which it can’t really breakdown. This doesn’t matter for spring drilling as it weathers down over winter. It doesn’t work deep and doesn’t do any compaction relief or subsoiling so doesn’t help infiltration. We’d considered using it on the ploughing in the spring but thought it would smear the wet stuff underneath and dry the surface out but maybe we should have tried it.</p><p>I’m more inclined though to seek a low disturbance leg, done when it’s dry in the autumn.</p><p>With the kit I’ve got I could stubble cultivate behind the combine as it won’t bury seed deep, then paraplow where necessary to alleviate compaction where it exists, or paraplow then stubble cultivate to level it, but it tends to bring up huge blocks if done after the paraplow. In that case discs are better as they don’t bring up blocks which was why I was considering a Trio type machine. My neighbours Trio left a corrugated but consolidated reasonably weatherproof water infiltrating surface. To me it looked the ideal solution but he sold it after a year. Must ask him why.</p><p>We’d still plough for autumn drilling where volunteers don’t matter such as a second wheat but we find with more wheat/barley sequences we end up with too many volunteers coming up from depth in the next crop. If we don’t plough early enough then there isn’t enough time for weathering.</p><p>Getting there after 50 years. Thanks for the ideas. I have some DD untouched stubbles on the go as well but it always seems to slump back together even after a dry summer. All undersdrained but seal over the porous fill easily. When we had loads of staff then somebody would be on the hard areas with the Ransomes subsoiler pre ploughing but nowadays there doesn’t seem to be much time for all that hence looking for one pass, spray off and drill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7596457, member: 2119"] I have a Polish stubble cultivator which I think is very similar to a Kongskilde Delta. It does a great job on light land making a weatherproof drillable finish in one pass, any time of the year. Direct into heavy land in the autumn it’s quite a strain on the legs and brings up some very large lumps which it can’t really breakdown. This doesn’t matter for spring drilling as it weathers down over winter. It doesn’t work deep and doesn’t do any compaction relief or subsoiling so doesn’t help infiltration. We’d considered using it on the ploughing in the spring but thought it would smear the wet stuff underneath and dry the surface out but maybe we should have tried it. I’m more inclined though to seek a low disturbance leg, done when it’s dry in the autumn. With the kit I’ve got I could stubble cultivate behind the combine as it won’t bury seed deep, then paraplow where necessary to alleviate compaction where it exists, or paraplow then stubble cultivate to level it, but it tends to bring up huge blocks if done after the paraplow. In that case discs are better as they don’t bring up blocks which was why I was considering a Trio type machine. My neighbours Trio left a corrugated but consolidated reasonably weatherproof water infiltrating surface. To me it looked the ideal solution but he sold it after a year. Must ask him why. We’d still plough for autumn drilling where volunteers don’t matter such as a second wheat but we find with more wheat/barley sequences we end up with too many volunteers coming up from depth in the next crop. If we don’t plough early enough then there isn’t enough time for weathering. Getting there after 50 years. Thanks for the ideas. I have some DD untouched stubbles on the go as well but it always seems to slump back together even after a dry summer. All undersdrained but seal over the porous fill easily. When we had loads of staff then somebody would be on the hard areas with the Ransomes subsoiler pre ploughing but nowadays there doesn’t seem to be much time for all that hence looking for one pass, spray off and drill. [/QUOTE]
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