Maize drilling
- Thread starter Dave b
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- Wiltshire
I have done and it didnt look good. The chopper driver was grumpy, the kemper he had at the time blocked up a lot with it. The yeild wasnt bad though. I have also drilled using only 8 of the rows. It takes a little working out to see which pipe to use. Dont buy fancy inserts, with a little trimming demi-john bungs from the home brew shop work a treat. On my 3m (it is an air drill not a box type) it worked out that 2 of the tramline flaps were still in use so I had tramlines in the crop which was very handy. I did have some info from vaderstad which said to keep the speed right down so that the spacing was better, I would agree with this dont go above 6kph or so. I an not drilling maize with my drill now but that is only because the contractors drill comes with a driver at a time when we are always busy. I would give it a go again.
BG
BG
REckon you can take the option of maximum spataial usage or go down the keep in row rows route. Despite Kemper headers the row route seems easier. Just block off the appropriate number of outlets. Having written that the thought comes to mind that much of grain maize is now planted on a double row system. Such that the two rows are juxaposed to enable them to go in to a standard maize header. Yeilds seem to go up. By reported media.
So if for example you choose 75,000 seeds per hectare on a say 50 cm row centre as it is for forage. Then do the maths on KG hectare. Work further back using TGW and bingo. Plant two rows close then a big gap then two more rows close.
- Location
- Haute Vienne, France
We have drilled maize with both a Kverneland Tine Seeder and a Horsch DS disc drill. Both use an accord metering system.
For silage I would not block off any pipes as we found we got bunching in the rows when we tried it. The spacing just seemed better when we used the drill normally.
For grain, we only did it once, planting two rows 15 cm apart, then a gap of 60 cm etc and I would not do it again. It looked ok but we found it did not feed smoothly into the header at harvest. The bunching also meant that stem and cob sizes varied a bit and the cobs did not always strip cleanly leading to more blockages.
For silage I would not block off any pipes as we found we got bunching in the rows when we tried it. The spacing just seemed better when we used the drill normally.
For grain, we only did it once, planting two rows 15 cm apart, then a gap of 60 cm etc and I would not do it again. It looked ok but we found it did not feed smoothly into the header at harvest. The bunching also meant that stem and cob sizes varied a bit and the cobs did not always strip cleanly leading to more blockages.
NXY. Interesting to get info from someone who has got the Tee shirt. Have tried the great plains twin row for grain. No problems with harvesting. Suppose a lot is down to header and plant numbers hectare and moisture. Friend in Europe does like you say uses all rows for silage and kemper header. Reckons it is bees knees. For grain which is all we grow stick to a single precision row and yeilds are fine.
did try in France the precision planted wheat route gave it up as a bad job. So as always probably what suits one best. If silage then maybe all rows is a way in the abscence of precsion drill.
Maybe like your bit of world having sunflowers as well is kinda easier and better for us to go the 70 cm row spacing route for Maize & suns. Only thing we do know is that for soya we stick to non precision planting and close rows. Which causes many to shake their heads.