SilliamWhale
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Never stood a chance round here last year,if the seed didnt drown the slugs got it,80% ww failed.
Would have been good this year. Last year was particularly bad; the year to learn lessons and build mistakes.
Never stood a chance round here last year,if the seed didnt drown the slugs got it,80% ww failed.
I am thinking the same as you and v much like the look of the zip till, I am sure that it would work well in your situation. What worries me is I know of someone that has been strip tilling for several years but has gone back to the plough as bg has beaten them and another whose slug pellet use is horrendous which is my piont that all you do is shift the costs.I agree - but it's not just costs I'm looking at.
If my land is subsoiled and allowed to 'weather' it produces a lovely seedbed.
I want to find as drill capable of drilling into that subsoiling without blocking in the trash.
I do see big merits in dd'ing after spring beans and osr as the previous crop has done the work for you, and the land is in such good condition seems as shame to move it.
So my conclusion?
A flexible dd/strip-til drill. Which I think looks like a mzuri ziptil?!
Never stood a chance round here last year,if the seed didnt drown the slugs got it,80% ww failed.
Couldn't risk it this year,land in such a bad state after 3 years DD,sad stale and anaerobic,used a Sumo Trio on it all to breath some life back into it.
Couldn't risk it this year,land in such a bad state after 3 years DD,sad stale and anaerobic,used a Sumo Trio on it all to breath some life back into it.
Last year was extreme and hopefully won't be repeated for a long time.
Sorry, I like 2nd wheats or did!Where has this talk of second wheats come from?
I only have one wheat in my plan?!
WW Spr Beans WB WOSR
Quite a bit of what would normally be winter rape or cereals ended up being direct drilled with spring crops last year. Seemed to do ok, and into soil that had stood very wet all winter.
No wheat lost to conventional systems round here last year but 80% lost in DD,simply the water couldn't get away from the seeding zone.
Couldn't risk it this year,land in such a bad state after 3 years DD,sad stale and anaerobic,used a Sumo Trio on it all to breath some life back into it.
Surely in the absence of compaction, all there is to arable farming is make a little hole, drop in seed, put a bit of soil on top and press it down? Weeds seem to manage all right.
in the right conditions in the future
Does it handle trash well?We went for a 6m Weaving Sabre drill,brilliant for conventional drilling but can also DD in the right conditions.