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<blockquote data-quote="fermerboy" data-source="post: 7571268" data-attributes="member: 190"><p>We had the same problem last year, we are grass farmers with grain in rotation, so leatherjackets are a big problem for us. </p><p></p><p>Our problem was basically hard dry clay ground at sowing time of spring barley. </p><p>We drill with a power harrow combi and it was leaving a bed of small inch sized clods. The roller didnt break them either as they were so hard and dry. Leatherjacket city!!</p><p></p><p>Heavy roller at night was my agronomists recomendation.</p><p> </p><p>Ended up resowing the worst of it. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙁" title="Slightly frowning face :slight_frown:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" data-shortname=":slight_frown:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙁" title="Slightly frowning face :slight_frown:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" data-shortname=":slight_frown:" /></p><p></p><p>This year the lad on the drill had it on full wick with the clod bar down low on the hard bits harrowed it to mush, beautiful surface. No space for leatherjackets to move in, but its rained non stop for near a month now and its all looking very solid and plants are struggling to get up. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fermerboy, post: 7571268, member: 190"] We had the same problem last year, we are grass farmers with grain in rotation, so leatherjackets are a big problem for us. Our problem was basically hard dry clay ground at sowing time of spring barley. We drill with a power harrow combi and it was leaving a bed of small inch sized clods. The roller didnt break them either as they were so hard and dry. Leatherjacket city!! Heavy roller at night was my agronomists recomendation. Ended up resowing the worst of it. 🙁🙁 This year the lad on the drill had it on full wick with the clod bar down low on the hard bits harrowed it to mush, beautiful surface. No space for leatherjackets to move in, but its rained non stop for near a month now and its all looking very solid and plants are struggling to get up. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: [/QUOTE]
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