Minimum row widths with strip till drills

[Brisel]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

What are the minimum row widths fo the main strip till drills? Many have dual outlet or wide band coulters like the DTS or Claydon.

I'm thinking of spring barley & linseed in particular where wide rows are going to be an issue if the crop doesn't tiller or branch well in a dry spring or with late sowing.

 

[Shutesy]

From what I've found out about the DTS they are either 320, 333 or 346 mm wide rows depending on the model and sow in a band 150mm wide unless using narrow coulters. So the gap between the rows of crops would be about 183 mm which isn't to bad imo. All the pictures etc I've seen of S barley sown with a DTS looks ok to me come harvest though not sure of yields in comparison to other systems and as you say a dry or late spring may cause an issue. Drill some with a demo this spring perhaps?

 

[Rob Holmes]

The Claydon with twin tine kit looks very similar to conventional drilling

 

[Brisel]

From what I've found out about the DTS they are either 320, 333 or 346 mm wide rows depending on the model and sow in a band 150mm wide unless using narrow coulters. So the gap between the rows of crops would be about 183 mm which isn't to bad imo. All the pictures etc I've seen of S barley sown with a DTS looks ok to me come harvest though not sure of yields in comparison to other systems and as you say a dry or late spring may cause an issue. Drill some with a demo this spring perhaps?

Thanks. My brochure says 18 rows on a 6m machine so 333 mm or 16" apart

@Johndeere - any spring barley going in at your farm wih your DTS that I can come & see please?

 

[Johndeere]

Thanks. My brochure says 18 rows on a 6m machine so 333 mm or 16" apart

@Johndeere - any spring barley going in at your farm wih your DTS that I can come & see please?

Tim

It's all mulika at my place but we have some spring barley demos to do which I'm sure we could monitor when you visit. Drilled barley in 2013 on chalk with no detriment to yield

 

[Shutesy]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

What are the minimum row widths fo the main strip till drills? Many have dual outlet or wide band coulters like the DTS or Claydon.

I'm thinking of spring barley & linseed in particular where wide rows are going to be an issue if the crop doesn't tiller or branch well in a dry spring or with late sowing.

As another thought, if you drilled S Barley, as an example, with a strip-till drill and had had a cover crop in place over winter I would think water retention in a dry year would be better and more beneficial to the spring crop than if you had used a ploughed or min-till system which would dry out quicker than the strip-till system? Probably even so if there hadn't been a cover crop.

 

[Brisel]

True, but a different consideration to the OP...!

 

[Shutesy]

True, but a different consideration to the OP...!

Was just thinking along the lines of greater water retention negating the effects of a dry spring better so may still allow adequate tillering so wider rows not an issue? Obviously won't help with later drilled crops. Im trying to sell this to myself as well as we are trying a strip-till drill on demo this spring.