Oilseed rape establishment

[JD6920s]

750A

Looking very good. Any fert placed at drilling?

 

[Bob lincs]

Looking very good. Any fert placed at drilling?

Yes 50kg/ha of dap

 

[Will 1594]

Low disturbance legs 12 mm wide with 3 inch wing steady pace of 6 k as not to boil a lot up zone packer with an old Suffolk coulter dropping seed. 2.5 kg in with no pressure on it 120 lt 14/14 dribbled in front of leg and rolled 1/1/2 kg pellets down side of rows drilled just a month ago Next project is zoned roller behind

 

[Mr Charisma]

Low disturbance legs 12 mm wide with 3 inch wing steady pace of 6 k as not to boil a lot up zone packer with an old Suffolk coulter dropping seed. 2.5 kg in with no pressure on it 120 lt 14/14 dribbled in front of leg and rolled 1/1/2 kg pellets down side of rows drilled just a month ago Next project is zoned roller behind

Blimey after your last post I was going to send a donation to the boys land benevolent fund ,,,,, think I will keep my money for us poor heavy land farmers !!!!!'

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Holl rape V316 ?
On light ground subsoiler sown late August
Had 2nd insecticide + Panarex on Saturday

 

[Will 1594]

Blimey after your last post I was going to send a donation to the boys land benevolent fund ,,,,, think I will keep my money for us poor heavy land farmers !!!!!'

Ooooh bet you wish you had land that rape is in some nice silt between the rivers that sort of stuff that's turns over like molten chocolate

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Low disturbance legs 12 mm wide with 3 inch wing steady pace of 6 k as not to boil a lot up zone packer with an old Suffolk coulter dropping seed. 2.5 kg in with no pressure on it 120 lt 14/14 dribbled in front of leg and rolled 1/1/2 kg pellets down side of rows drilled just a month ago Next project is zoned roller behind

I like the description of your drill set up. Any pictures?

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Alizze on heavy ground down early September. Had DAP @ 1 1/4 cwt per acre & 2 insecticides

 

[Will 1594]

I like the description of your drill set up. Any pictures?

Just a poor mans codge up was an old v form chopped bottom off legs and welded twb 12 mill bottoms on they came from brocks then was at a collective sale and got the zone packer for 120 £ don't think any one knew what to do with it stocks seeder back to back one seed one pellets and old front tank , put an 035 hypro jet in the pipe joints to get back pressure and a bit of inch box welded on leg bracket so it ran in front of leg . And coulters came off an old Fiona drill but changing them as got some coulters from a vaddy spirit with double disc and otico press wheel for next year . Going to cut packer and move rings to 45 cm instead of 50 and add an extra one so have 6 to sow cover for beet on sand then split them in spring and make strips for beet and use the other vaddy drill discs to make openers for beet drill

 

[JD6920s]

DK Exception, Claydon drilled on bank holiday weekend at 1.8kg/ha, working out at 33 seeds m/2.
Taken this morning.

 

[nick...]

Nice hound
Nick...

 

[Farmerdunk]

Campus. Drilled with Vaderstad on the 2/3 August. First picture field was cultivated with a topdown and the 2nd and 3rd picture field was ploughed. Both look good, maybe the ploughed field slightly more even.
Both the fields had Biogen digest applied a few days before drilling. We had to incorporate it so we had to plough one field, so it didn't smell to much!

 

[strip-till-phil]

Is this too thick for end of September?

 

[Brisel]

Is this too thick for end of September?View attachment 583736

Show off!

 

[strip-till-phil]

Show off!

Serious question.......in your honest opinion is it too thick? can it be too thick?

 

[Days of thunder]

Is this too thick for end of September?View attachment 583736

Ye in an ideal world possibly a bit thick but hey just starve a bit in the spring. Rest easy no probs with pigeons.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Serious question.......in your honest opinion is it too thick? can it be too thick?

Possibly to thick for me but what do I know ,,,, end of the day we are moving into different territory what with CSFB ,,,,. What was right 3 or 4 years ago possibly isn't right now ,
You will know by harvest , if it's been hit hard by frost whilst flowering and your neighbours haven't then yes it's to thick ,,,,,, if you come on here in 10 months time and get the pub yield thread up and running with I have just harvested 6 t / ha then you had nothing to worry about

 

[Will 1594]

Been and had look st it again it's motoring now . Trial of doubling up looks thick but if the swans descend , before we get the stakes in and string it with round baler strong to deter landing could soon strip it and paddle it

 

[Badshot]

Imperial osr, established with

Over bank holiday weekend.
It's fair motoring.

 

[average farmer]

Is this too thick for end of September?View attachment 583736

Just looks a bit forward not too thick imo