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My direct drill and cultivation trial 2022
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<blockquote data-quote="snarling bee" data-source="post: 8126028" data-attributes="member: 681"><p>That field was continuous wheat for nearly 20 years before a short break. During that time it was the most profitable field on the farm compared to a 2WW,break rotation. It was also one of the cleanest fields on the farm from a grass weed point of view. We used to get reliably 8-9t/ha full spec milling wheat, with mainly deep min till. We have a lot of pH8s, never use latitude and rarely see take all. BLWs are easy</p><p></p><p>We were discussing at lunch that possibly we should move to a winter wheat, spring wheat rotation to keep on top of grass weeds and make a margin/profit. Beans are at best 1 yr in 6, OSR is a risk and we have never been very good at it, peas I hate with a passion, linseed ditto, spring barley we can never get malting and harvest clashes with wheat. oats are usually hard to sell. Whats not to like. I know gross margin isn't profit, but wheat has consistently given us a very good margin compared to other crops, enough to outweigh cutting fixed costs. Other crops still need to be established, tended, harvested and stored.</p><p></p><p>As in OP it was drilled with a demo Avatar, not available earlier, although a bit was done with a Cayenna. there is very little to pick between them.</p><p></p><p>I know it is not a perfect demonstration of DDing, but do I drill the DD section 2 weeks earlier then come back and it has pi$$ed with rain delaying the rest for weeks or 6 months, that is then not a fair trial. Do I change 10 things or just the one, ie the cultivation. </p><p>As above it is a long time since I used a grass weed SU, but it was either that or glyphosate.</p><p></p><p>TBH until spring growth the DD section looked as well as the others, so I don't think it was short of anything, it had muck the previous April.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snarling bee, post: 8126028, member: 681"] That field was continuous wheat for nearly 20 years before a short break. During that time it was the most profitable field on the farm compared to a 2WW,break rotation. It was also one of the cleanest fields on the farm from a grass weed point of view. We used to get reliably 8-9t/ha full spec milling wheat, with mainly deep min till. We have a lot of pH8s, never use latitude and rarely see take all. BLWs are easy We were discussing at lunch that possibly we should move to a winter wheat, spring wheat rotation to keep on top of grass weeds and make a margin/profit. Beans are at best 1 yr in 6, OSR is a risk and we have never been very good at it, peas I hate with a passion, linseed ditto, spring barley we can never get malting and harvest clashes with wheat. oats are usually hard to sell. Whats not to like. I know gross margin isn't profit, but wheat has consistently given us a very good margin compared to other crops, enough to outweigh cutting fixed costs. Other crops still need to be established, tended, harvested and stored. As in OP it was drilled with a demo Avatar, not available earlier, although a bit was done with a Cayenna. there is very little to pick between them. I know it is not a perfect demonstration of DDing, but do I drill the DD section 2 weeks earlier then come back and it has pi$$ed with rain delaying the rest for weeks or 6 months, that is then not a fair trial. Do I change 10 things or just the one, ie the cultivation. As above it is a long time since I used a grass weed SU, but it was either that or glyphosate. TBH until spring growth the DD section looked as well as the others, so I don't think it was short of anything, it had muck the previous April. [/QUOTE]
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