- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
50 seems a low number?? Why so low?50 seeds/m2 as an average. Could be 20+% either way as it’s all variable rate.
50 seems a low number?? Why so low?50 seeds/m2 as an average. Could be 20+% either way as it’s all variable rate.
Very impressive footage and figures, be interesting to see how the 724 performs when it's drilling winter beans 4+ inches deep
30ac /hr spot rate ! - FSS (200 seeds) Calcifert and DAP all VRA and about 2.5L/ha fuel
Very impressive footage and figures, be interesting to see how the 724 performs when it's drilling winter beans 4+ inches deep
Front hopper sounds very smart is that so you can drill multiple seed types at once or to improve visibility and weight distribution?Think it will be fine - it's well on top of it at the moment - we always have the 6m CO ULD conversion (now with a front hopper) if not
@Clive
Did you get your Simba rolls finished,I seen to remember you starting a pimp my rolls thread.
Just interested as I need to up grade my set.
Great footage by the way
Front hopper sounds very smart is that so you can drill multiple seed types at once or to improve visibility and weight distribution?
50 seems a low number?? Why so low?
What you need then , @Clive , is a Tritonshould go in most conditions when other drills would be stopped
I would say ours would be going in to very very good seed beds. I have no intention of going that low. Bought in seed I might of gone down to 80 but fss will be staying high end50 seeds would be standard enough with good seed in good conditions I would have thought. I’d be using the same rate.
A target of about 30 strong plants in the spring would be the plan.
I would say ours would be going in to very very good seed beds. I have no intention of going that low. Bought in seed I might of gone down to 80 but fss will be staying high end
Ha ha, thought you’d say that. Haven’t sunk yet.
Have a bag of campus to grow on and campus fss, so conventional. Drilled at 2kg/acre into ploughed and worked down land the equivalent weekend last year and did very well - just gonna do, as much as I can, the same again. Not broke, dont fix it.Interesting
Are you using hybrids or conventional for your bought in seed?
Conventional varieties used to be recommended at higher seed rates than hybrids but I’ve spoken to a couple of breeders recently who said the target spring population should be about 30 for both.
Obviously CSFB etc can cause by losses so this needs to be catered for.
Big strong well branched plants is what I like to see, hard to get these at very high populations.
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.
I would say ours would be going in to very very good seed beds. I have no intention of going that low. Bought in seed I might of gone down to 80 but fss will be staying high end
I drill stubble turnips at 2kgs an acre. 1.5kgs/ acre in July . We want some with smaller bulbs, as we find the big bulbs just go woody and hollow by early April.My stubble turnip seed has a TGW of 1.85g. I know that because I am sad enough to have spent the last hour counting them out and weighing them on some antique chemistry scales.
I broadcast at 2 kg per ha which works out at 108 seeds per square metre.
5 days after broadcast/rolling I have about 20 seedlings per square metre at best which I am not very pleased with, but more might emerge.
But for stubble turnips I like them thinly sown as there is more chance of growing a big root. If each root gets to 250g then that's 50 t/ha of root.
Its very late for stubble turnips but the idea was to test the rig rather than grow a crop, but a crop of turnips would be a bonus.
Not quite sure what rate to drill the rape, but I might stick to what it says on the bag and go for 100 seeds per square metre (4.5 kg/ha) especially as I am not sure how well they will come up behind this cross kill roller and also I reckon the Turbojet Wizard controller is exaggerating a bit and in fact isn't applying what it says on the screen, probably due to some error on my part or the fact its ten years old. I told it to apply 3 kg per ha of turnips and it only seems to have applied 2 kg.
All good stuff.
I drill stubble turnips at 2kgs an acre. 1.5kgs/ acre in July . We want some with smaller bulbs, as we find the big bulbs just go woody and hollow by early April.