Potato planting 2018

[TripleSix]

Had 11mm of rain overnight here.

Day off today, 20ac left...

 

[Scragger]

No day off for us in sunny Herefordshire, 200ac left!

 

[Spud]

Had 11mm of rain overnight here.

Day off today, 20ac left...

Same rain here, but 160 left!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Couple of pics from last week.

 

[Honest john]

11mm here it was well wet before that.

150ac to go

 

[Sonoftheheir]

11mm here it was well wet before that.

150ac to go

Is land just heavier that way John? Or do you get more rain?

 

[Iben]

12mm last night, lost most of yesterday with a broken planter. Only 25 to go, so not stressed.

 

[chipchap]

Anybody in Shropshire or Herefordshire got enough seed left over for about 2 acres? Chipping variety, Ramos would be super?

 

[Spud]

@Sonoftheheir how do you get on with the microlift tines? I assume you're trying to remove any pan created by the destoner share? Are they low enough disturbance? Whats wear rates like?

 

[ridger]

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Couple of pics from last week.

You should curve the drills more, more potatoes in a crooked drill!

 

[Honest john]

Is land just heavier that way John? Or do you get more rain?

I think you are winding me up Gary, with all this talk of dry clods.

 

[Iben]

View attachment 670828 No day off for us in sunny Herefordshire, 200ac left!

200 out of how much? 210

 

[Sonoftheheir]

@Sonoftheheir how do you get on with the microlift tines? I assume you're trying to remove any pan created by the destoner share? Are they low enough disturbance? Whats wear rates like?

Get on well as long as you remember to lift them up before hitting any ground that hasn’t been tilled.

Yes to remove the pan from the baselier, we don’t need to de stone. They don’t wear on this land, it’s very soft kind soil.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I think you are winding me up Gary, with all this talk of dry clods.

Seriously not John, very dry on top at least.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

You should curve the drills more, more potatoes in a crooked drill!

Ha, dad doesn’t do a bad job by eye.

 

[Iben]

Ha, dad doesn’t do a bad job by eye.

Then you straighten it with the gps!

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

At the other end of the scale.....

Started.....and finished on Saturday morning.
8mm rain overnight soaked in well

 

[TripleSix]

Get on well as long as you remember to lift them up before hitting any ground that hasn’t been tilled.

Yes to remove the pan from the baselier, we don’t need to de stone. They don’t wear on this land, it’s very soft kind soil.

Our bed tiller has a tine that runs down the middle of each bed to bust the pan, it can't help with anything caused by the destoner though...

 

[Sonoftheheir]

At the other end of the scale.....
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Started.....and finished on Saturday morning.
8mm rain overnight soaked in well

You need to buy this from us for next year.....

 

[RLC]

We're 135ac through our own 150ac

Been and popped 35ac in for someone else across 3 fields, another 20 to put in there too now.

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