Maize drilling 2021

[JCfarmer]

What a pain in the backside, the weather finally breaks and doesn't know when to stop!
All mucked and ploughed but too wet to do anything with really at the moment. Not going to maul it in, better to wait 10days I think with more rain forecast.

 

[DRC]

Took the decision to go a week early, despite the ground being a bit cold, so got it in and sprayed by the Saturday night before the weather broke. It’s not through yet but has started to grow. Just don’t need a late frost.
Im sure any not drilled yet will fly away and is often the better crop.

 

[Hobbit]

Have been drilling for the last 3 weeks but none of it through yet. Has been easy going in the dry. Not looking forward to trying to finish in the wet

 

[The Son]

What a pain in the backside, the weather finally breaks and doesn't know when to stop!
All mucked and ploughed but too wet to do anything with really at the moment. Not going to maul it in, better to wait 10days I think with more rain forecast.

Same position here, i would really like it in next week, but after yesterdays rain it is going to take some drying.

 

[Martyn]

How late in the season have people drilled and still got sensible cropping. I'm hoping to drill some organic maize for the first time but need good soil temp from the start.

 

[ZXR17]

Ours has been in three and a half weeks and has only approx 30 mm shoots on it so no where near emerging . If you can get drilled soon it won't be that far behind . Hopefully it might have warmed up by then .

 

[RAF]

Drilled mid June with no yield penalty . It soon catches up in the right conditions

 

[JCfarmer]

Drilled mid June with no yield penalty . It soon catches up in the right conditions

I drilled some a few years ago on June 16th I remember as it was around cereals show.
It went in late as someone offered us 15 acres about the 11th June!
That came well and yielded well considering but we did have the right weather and it came out the ground running.

 

[Oscar]

Local AD plant have got 1000 acs drilled BUT 2500ac still to go and 1000ac still has forage rye growing on it .

 

[RAF]

Keep someone busy all that lot

 

[Devon James]

I feel better now reading the replies on here! 120 acres left to do. Cursing why we hadnt finished, but with 80mm plus now on what would have been freshly drilled it would be a bit of a mess. Taking encouragement that if we can get it in end of this week it will fly out of the ground.

 

[Boysground]

Finished last night, 30 ac after a cut of grass but one of the driest fields I have. Had a fair drop of rain Thursday night.

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[Hobbit]

We have an accord optima with disc openers and solid depth wheels. This is a good set up in dry, hard, poor seed beds which we encounter as a contractor. However it’s the worst drill to use in lose or damp conditions. The depth wheels just fill up with soil and stop the disc turning. Each wheel then has to be removed and scraped out. Our old optima just had a simple boot coulter a bit like a boat and this worked very well.
What drills are others using and how do they cope in wet conditions?

Will.

 

[Steevo]

Saw my first field up in rows today.....cold temps have kept a lid on things so I think any drilled next week will soon catch up.

 

[sticky]

My neighbors has been in the ground three and a half weeks and still no sign of it.

 

[dowcow]

Maize doesn't like cold soil under and until around a week ago the soil was too cold around here, so there was little point sowing unless it was under plastic this year. We used to drill in last couple of weeks of May anyway as used to try get a first cut of grass off, but it is on the same ground as last years maize this time. It came wet a bit sooner here, and went a week between ploughing and being power harrowed with me watching heavy shower drench the fields a few hundred yards to the west of me while I was harrowing and it only just wet my mudguards... so there was some nice dry soil by the next morning when our contractor came with the drill but that was by luck alone. It has been in nearly a week but just waiting for a dry spell to shift some grass now.