OSR Drilling 2019

[Tompkins]

Managed to snatch 32 acres this week on light land, can't see us planting anymore until September now as there's at least 2 weeks of harvest left and it's starting to look a but sad.
Not to bothered, planted plenty of OSR in the first 2 weeks of September and there isn't much to lose with FSS and minimal inputs.

 

[Billboy1]

Because I’m lazy how many seeds square metre is 7kg/ha at 5.2 tgw tia ? Ps 98%germ

 

[Suffolk boy]

I make that 132 plants per m2 accounting for 100% establishment.
80% establishment =106 plants
75% =99 plants
50% =66 plants

 

[Brisel]

Rolling osr today. Doing each field twice, with slug pellets on the second pass.

 

[Will 1594]

Any one finished and sowing clear field imperial. Could do with half bag or do you get 4 kg off hesp

 

[Hooch]

Just taking out the volunteers

 

[Heathland]

Only started yesterday,Campus 4.4kg/ha =100seedsqm

Even got the old boy off that ruddy x box, on to the rolls
Just need him to slow down a bit

 

[KB6930]

Made a start today there's more of last year's straw left than I'd like but it lay for 4 weeks and was turned a few times but I'm sure the rape will be fine

 

[Bobthebuilder]

getting there, will get our 2nd spring barley field baled up this morning then clear the bales and hopefully get them both drilled next week and that's us finished sowing osr at home possibly a 50ac contract job for someone after that

 

[JCfarmer]

28 ha's in so far with the claydon, elgar home saved seed 5kg/ha. Lighter ground rolled twice, heavy ground rolled with carrier and then with rolls. 4kg/ha slug pellets. Rest going in this week.

 

[Clive]

50% drilled now

200 seeds / m

100kgs DAP (placed)

25-125kgs calcifert (placed)

Double rolled


Catching up on cover crop drilling today with the rest of the OSR hopefully going in early this week

 

[DrWazzock]

Not started yet. Waiting to see how well or badly the stubble turnips come up that we sprinkled in front of the cross kill roller on the back of my stubble cultivatior. I reckon the cross kill roller presses them in too deep. Stubble turnips emerging in low bits where the roller didn't trample them but not emerging where the roller pressed them into the ground. Maybe a redesign needed. Drilled last Tuesday at 2 kg per ha and would have expected full emergence by now, given the showers we had had. Need a smoother roller or sprinkle the seed further back.

 

[DRC]

Not started yet. Waiting to see how well or badly the stubble turnips come up that we sprinkled in front of the cross kill roller on the back of my stubble cultivatior. I reckon the cross kill roller presses them in too deep. Stubble turnips emerging in low bits where the roller didn't trample them but not emerging where the roller pressed them into the ground. Maybe a redesign needed. Drilled last Tuesday at 2 kg per ha and would have expected full emergence by now, given the showers we had had. Need a smoother roller or sprinkle the seed further back.

There’s your problem. 2 kgs/ha?. On a small acreage I don’t know why folks don’t just get it ploughed and follow with a combi drill.

 

[SilliamWhale]

There’s your problem. 2 kgs/ha?. On a small acreage I don’t know why folks don’t just get it ploughed and follow with a combi drill.

Cos you sink!!

 

[Gruffalo]

Last 20ac going in, about 6lbs/ac

 

[DrWazzock]

There’s your problem. 2 kgs/ha?. On a small acreage I don’t know why folks don’t just get it ploughed and follow with a combi drill.

We nearly did but glad we didn't. The sand would have been blowing by now and very dry and difficult to reconsolidate. The heavy clay would have set like blocks of concrete and taken too much breaking down.

We did a few runs with a plough on the sandy side of the field where we needed to start but it took 3 passes with the cambridge rolls to get it back to the stage where we weren't leaving 3" deep wheelings with duals on.

Normally I go straight in with the unidrill onto undisturbed stubbles BUT we did not bale the straw this year and there is too much for the unidrill, hence the turbojet on the stubble cultivator. Seed rolled straight into moist soil and trash incorporated in one pass.

Reckon the roller is putting it in a bit deep though. I don't really like the soil disturbance, loosening and drying but time will tell if the plants root better than pure direct drilling.

2kg was always fine with the unidrill. Turnip seed is smaller than OSR seed and 2 Kg was more than thick enough.

 

[Brisel]

50 seeds/m2 is 2.5 kg/ha on my farm saved Campus and bought in Ballad. More seed = more egg laying by CSFB but if you don’t want to see the ground for crop and don’t like chasing pigeons then higher seed rates are fine. My best yields are rarely from the thinnest crops.

 

[Zippy768]

50 seeds/m2 is 2.5 kg/ha on my farm saved Campus and bought in Ballad. More seed = more egg laying by CSFB but if you don’t want to see the ground for crop and don’t like chasing pigeons then higher seed rates are fine. My best yields are rarely from the thinnest crops.

So what numbers are you drilling at? 5kg/ha here starting tomorrow. 100 seeds/m2.

 

[Brisel]

So what numbers are you drilling at? 5kg/ha here starting tomorrow. 100 seeds/m2.

50 seeds/m2 as an average. Could be 20+% either way as it’s all variable rate.

 

[DRC]

Cos you sink!!

Ha ha, thought you’d say that. Haven’t sunk yet.