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Regen Ag General Discussion
Is ploughing bad ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7855539" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>I can't show you the actual workings. But it is something I've picked up on from several places on the forum and various other sources. No doubt it will be part of ELMs.</p><p>However, my primary motivation was financial and a reduction in my own Labour, rather than any environmental, which is a bonus.</p><p></p><p>Everybody is going to have their own 'agenda' within this debate. But on the financial side, I have already saved more than what I will lose when BPS disappears!</p><p>And the time to try and learn about it is before it disappears.</p><p></p><p>As regards rotation and 2nd wheats, generally, I don't grow 2nd wheats. But my 2nd white straw crop is Winter barley.</p><p>The rotation is Winter Linseed, then 1st wheat, followed by Winter barley. This ensures very little time between harvest and drilling, without the need for a cover crop. The volunteers from the previous crop do this job instead.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit (sorry, had to stop for a meeting):</p><p>The reason for the Winter barley originated from my former ploughing, interspersed with 2 separate attempts with Min-till (NOT No-till). It was min-till that caused a Blackgrass explosion here. Hybrid Winter barley proved to be a good Blackgrass suppressant within the rotation, which was always worst in the 2nd white straw crop.</p><p>Cheaper than a 2nd wheat, using 2/3rds the fungicides, 20% less Nitrogen and an early harvest.</p><p>I wanted to grow conventional Sensation this Autumn, but the processor Wynnstay cocked up the order and could not deliver on time. So I planted all my successfully delivered Bazooka on Zero-tilled land and replaced the undelivered Sensation with 2nd wheat, on 80 acres of what will hopefully be my last ever ploughed and Combi drilled land. This had to have the full works pre-em herbicides and 2 doses of slug pellets so far. Whereas apart from one dose on one patch, no slug pellets on anything zero-till drilled. Yet another win!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7855539, member: 44728"] I can't show you the actual workings. But it is something I've picked up on from several places on the forum and various other sources. No doubt it will be part of ELMs. However, my primary motivation was financial and a reduction in my own Labour, rather than any environmental, which is a bonus. Everybody is going to have their own 'agenda' within this debate. But on the financial side, I have already saved more than what I will lose when BPS disappears! And the time to try and learn about it is before it disappears. As regards rotation and 2nd wheats, generally, I don't grow 2nd wheats. But my 2nd white straw crop is Winter barley. The rotation is Winter Linseed, then 1st wheat, followed by Winter barley. This ensures very little time between harvest and drilling, without the need for a cover crop. The volunteers from the previous crop do this job instead. Edit (sorry, had to stop for a meeting): The reason for the Winter barley originated from my former ploughing, interspersed with 2 separate attempts with Min-till (NOT No-till). It was min-till that caused a Blackgrass explosion here. Hybrid Winter barley proved to be a good Blackgrass suppressant within the rotation, which was always worst in the 2nd white straw crop. Cheaper than a 2nd wheat, using 2/3rds the fungicides, 20% less Nitrogen and an early harvest. I wanted to grow conventional Sensation this Autumn, but the processor Wynnstay cocked up the order and could not deliver on time. So I planted all my successfully delivered Bazooka on Zero-tilled land and replaced the undelivered Sensation with 2nd wheat, on 80 acres of what will hopefully be my last ever ploughed and Combi drilled land. This had to have the full works pre-em herbicides and 2 doses of slug pellets so far. Whereas apart from one dose on one patch, no slug pellets on anything zero-till drilled. Yet another win! [/QUOTE]
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