Min-till maize??

[Zippy768]

Heavy ground is ploughing up badly. Looks alot of work getting into a seedbed.

I reckon I could get a better seedbed with cultivator/disc then power harrowing twice.
Min-till maize a good idea.

Usually would have Subsoiler but I image will only smear it

 

[More to life]

Heavy ground is ploughing up badly. Looks alot of work getting into a seedbed.

I reckon I could get a better seedbed with cultivator/disc then power harrowing twice.
Min-till maize a good idea.

Usually would have Subsoiler but I image will only smear it

Most do that in this area works well but lighter ground

 

[Will 1594]

@sjt01
maize till

 

[frederick]

Heavy ground is ploughing up badly. Looks alot of work getting into a seedbed.

I reckon I could get a better seedbed with cultivator/disc then power harrowing twice.
Min-till maize a good idea.

Usually would have Subsoiler but I image will only smear it

We're just drilling into sprayed off grass that had a simba through once and then powerharrowed.
Working down quite well.
If we ploughed it I think we would have simply got long shiny lines that baked solid very quickly.

 

[sjt01]

@sjt01
maize till

Probably heavier land than ours, but this is what we do

 

[Zippy768]

Probably heavier land than ours, but this is what we do

What's the thing at front?

 

[Zippy768]

We're just drilling into sprayed off grass that had a simba through once and then powerharrowed.
Working down quite well.
If we ploughed it I think we would have simply got long shiny lines that baked solid very quickly.

I ploughed 1/2 an acre. A struggle from one end to the other.
Come up in big lumps and hasn't even ploughed that well.
Just returning with the cultivator.

What did you do to try and get depth?

 

[sjt01]

What's the thing at front?

Cover crop destroyer - back roller on the ground, front flailing drum at 4 x the speed.
https://www.bionalan.fr/en/nos-produits/rouleau-destructeur-biola

 

[frederick]

I ploughed 1/2 an acre. A struggle from one end to the other.
Come up in big lumps and hasn't even ploughed that well.
Just returning with the cultivator.

What did you do to try and get depth?

Simba would run at about 5-6 inches. Sometimes tine didnt quite lift as it should. But powerharrow still broke it up.

Not perfect but seed is in the ground and I got a place in the drill qué. Lots won't be drilled up before Monday if it rains.

 

[jondear]

@Devon James

 

[DaveGrohl]

Simba would run at about 5-6 inches. Sometimes tine didnt quite lift as it should. But powerharrow still broke it up.

Not perfect but seed is in the ground and I got a place in the drill qué. Lots won't be drilled up before Monday if it rains.

Simba what model?

 

[mo!]

Most of ours will be ploughed, trioed and combi drilled but we have one field that was failed barley so I'm just going to tickle it with the drag and then combi.

 

[Zippy768]

Ploughing wasn't coming up v well

 

[Wesley]

Ploughing wasn't coming up v well

It’s not all loss. Looks like you could pick them up & build a house.

 

[Sambo]

We have sumoed/ sumoing our maize ground, then powerharrow with a mounted maize drill. It's drying really well on top but for the most part it ideally wants moving again as the powerharrow is pulling too much wet up.

 

[Chimera]

Do people subsoiil every year for maize? Got ours off without much mess last autumn. But wary of not doing it, and being penalised

 

[Will Blackburn]

Not a good year for subsoiling, just using a sumo type cultivator then in with the drill.

 

[Farmer Roy]

By far the bulk of the worlds maize crop would be planted full zero till, on heavy ground . . .

 

[Boysground]

Mostly chalk here but a chunck of sticky alluvial silt. Which is not ploughed unless i really have to so maize is usually min tilled. I have a sumo type cultivator, that could be done twice and then a power harrow or just a press if it’s perfect conditions.

i’ve ploughed more this year than usual. Partly due to some new ground needing a plough and some of mine having far too much rubbish as i couldn’t get glyphosate on it earlier. Hopefully plant some now which is the latest for years. Will finish 1st cut today

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[Zippy768]

Do people subsoiil every year for maize? Got ours off without much mess last autumn. But wary of not doing it, and being penalised

We do generally, but advised that it will probably just smear rather than shatter