New Weaving DD drill
- Thread starter B&B Pig Man
- Start date
APJ
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- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
Is it your old dale in weavings? Do you think you need to do some form of strip till before going down the disc drill route?
No not my drill however iota for sale if u are looking.
Regards strip till - not vital but it does help get the ground level and firmer, reducing combine wheelings etc... But I think I would go straight for the weaving now. If I were to start again. Do as much research as possible before you get one and just give yourself chances I.e don't chop everything the 1st year and try cover crops on bits just ease yourself in
- Location
- Cirencester
- Location
- Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire
MrNoo
What was the previous crop and was the straw removed....and were there any cultivations between combining and drilling...?
- Location
- Cirencester
There was no previous crop, it was a failed SB crop prior (this was Weaving subdisc'd then drilled with a Vaddyand and rolled). So we had a few spray off's with glypho. It is very heavy clay so didn't wish to get mauling it about and it had a very nice tilth on the surface with plenty of moisture just below, so thought best use it. It is a very bad BG field and has been very interesting to see BG emerging from the moved soil in the slots (not a huge amount just a bit here and there), in between the slots there is nothing. We had a demo of the Cousin's Oil drill and have found exactly the same in another field, plenty of BG germinated along the slots but hopefully should be much easier to control as so much less of it than normal.
- Location
- CW5 Cheshire
Wheat into OSR stubble, raked immediately after the combine, then drilled with GD drill and rolled. Glyphosate week after drilling, no pellets yet.
Dan Powell
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- Location
- Shropshire
You're just posting this to annoy me. Seriously no pellets.... HOW!?
Seriously? I didn't rake, but Ive used my annual allowance of Metaldehyde, plus one does of ferrics. Did some plant counts yesterday, and on my best DD bit I've got 50% establishment, and the worst 32% which will have to be redrilled
Hammer
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- Location
- South Norfolk
I am also amazed by this. We have had the driest couple of months for years and I have still managed to lose some patches of wheat to slugs after beans! Wheat after rape has had 2 doses of pellets and some areas will need topping up now.
- Location
- CW5 Cheshire
Sorry Dan, not trying to annoy you!
No pellets on that field and that is normal after rape here, providing I get a good take of volunteers, hence the raking immediately after the combine. I have another field where I failed to get a good take of volunteers in a few places, these areas have needed pellets and are thinner.
Slugs are still a major headache though, by far the biggest problem is in establishing rape. Up until last year slugs after beans weren't an issue, but a combination of an ill timed holiday and VERY slow autumn growth from the GD drill caught me out and caused significant losses. At the moment I consider the slow autumn growth from the GD drill too much of a price to pay for the benefits of ULD on this farm, but early days yet. One solution is to use pop up fertilizers, but I am very miserly and don't want to add a cost!
I can't explain everything, but I'm sure my soil type is lighter than yours and after 7 years of No Till, the soil is very crumbly and seed hollowing is not an issue following the GD drill. I am in a cool, damp,slug prone area though.
I have witnessed slugs of biblical proportions on @No Worries farm, huge numbers of small grey field slugs. I think I get less of these and more large brown ones that are more vulnerable and easier to deal with around drilling time.
- Location
- CW5 Cheshire
I do get slugs, this was this spring.
The slugs weren't as bad over the whole field, but I didn't pellet and the crop grew away fine. The following wheat is now up, with no slug grazing whatsoever and no pellets used so far. There were loads of large brown slugs everywhere at combining time, but after harvest they were too large to hide anywhere and have died, been squashed, or been eaten by birds.
Just to keep on track, the beans were drilled with the GD drill.
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
I have to say, the reports I've been hearing this autumn from GDs have not been good. Haven't seen it personally though
SilliamWhale
Member
How so - too dry and downpressure issues?
Tractor Boy
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- Location
- Suffolk
I think this was an argument against the mounted GD when it first came out. Everyone then was advocating trailed to get the hopper and chassis weight over the coulters or having to use a Fendt on a mounted one as they have double acting linkage. Hadn't heard anymore about it lately though and haven't any experience with these drills personally.