Maize Drilling

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Only if the seedbed is really rough and dry. Maize hates compaction - if you get it wrong you'll see every wheeling until harvest. If you're thinking that now then you should wait until the seedbed has weathered down some more!
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
does anyone roll after drilling maize? flat or Cambridge?

I do, light chalk soils so consolidation is key to all crops. We can get nice seedbed just by ploughing and then running over with the press. I like to roll because i put pendemethalin on everything if I can. By pressing in any lumps on the surface the chances of shadow areas where there is no pre em reduces. Improving the weed control.

12m rollers lightish tractor so few wheel marks

BG
 
Maize ground ploughing over a bit tough.
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Gone to plan B for cultivation
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Still no rush to drill.
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devon6400

Member
Mixed Farmer
Only if the seedbed is really rough and dry. Maize hates compaction - if you get it wrong you'll see every wheeling until harvest. If you're thinking that now then you should wait until the seedbed has weathered down some more!

Pretty happy with the seed bed was just wondering about rolling with all this dry weather
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Drilling tomorrow
 
What will you grow instead Will?

Er, pass!

Probably more red clover, oats and second cereals. Change forced on us by the seed dressing ban, hope it won't be bad as expected. But in an isolated site with a healthy corvid population we will take a year out and see what the job pans out like.

Of all the change which is coming, none is progress.
 

DRC

Member
Er, pass!

Probably more red clover, oats and second cereals. Change forced on us by the seed dressing ban, hope it won't be bad as expected. But in an isolated site with a healthy corvid population we will take a year out and see what the job pans out like.

Of all the change which is coming, none is progress.
Touch wood, we don’t get corvids troubling us too much. I’d like to keep growing maize, as it suits us. A quarter of the farm that I don’t have to harvest, dry or store.
 

Serup

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Denmark
Er, pass!

Probably more red clover, oats and second cereals. Change forced on us by the seed dressing ban, hope it won't be bad as expected. But in an isolated site with a healthy corvid population we will take a year out and see what the job pans out like.

Of all the change which is coming, none is progress.

Any special reason as to why you don’t want to grow maize without mesurol?
I haven’t got seed with mesurol for 10 years now. Saves quite a lot of money.
 
Any special reason as to why you don’t want to grow maize without mesurol?
I haven’t got seed with mesurol for 10 years now. Saves quite a lot of money.

Dont won't to take the risk of crop failure, when we have over options. Would happily grow it on a area based contract rather than a yield based one next year!
 

Serup

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Denmark
Birds are a real PITA in the UK; they dig up the seed by pulling up the plants.

Are you still allowed to use clothinanidin?

The information i can find, indicate that i hasn't been used in farming since 2005 (where the chart i found, start) and i was banned in DK in 2012. What is it used for?
 

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