does anyone roll after drilling maize? flat or Cambridge?
About 2.5 if the freeby thermometer is accurate! It's in some low lying peat ground.
Always plough for maize, gives consistent results. Have successfully DD after maize and elsewhere in the rotation. Last year for maize here til we see how the mesoul banYou don't need to plough that dirt, surely? It looks quite nice?
What will you grow instead Will?Always plough for maize, gives consistent results. Have successfully DD after maize and elsewhere in the rotation. Last year for maize here til we see how the mesoul ban
works out. So less ploughing all round.
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?
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.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.
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.
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?