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Rolling spring cereals again
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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel" data-source="post: 6882538" data-attributes="member: 315"><p>I confessed to some grievous sins of water managment on twitter yesterday. A heavy ridge of old river bed runs through this field of fen soil, and after potatoes last autumn it was far too wet to do anything with.</p><p></p><p>As soon as possible this spring we pulled a superflow through it and combi drilled it with Chilham. It was then rolled. The fen soil has germinated nicely, but the ridge just baked solid, note the wheat emerged in the good soil top left of the picture:[ATTACH=full]871286[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]871291[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Thought without a helping hand we'd struggle to get a crop:[ATTACH=full]871290[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The land had all straw removed for years by the previous tenant, so from this autumn it's chopped straw and covercrops, though 5 year FBTs do tend to limit the enthusiasm for this sort of investment.</p><p></p><p>Might be worth a 2nd roll after emergence?</p><p></p><p>Awkward fields to manage with such a variation in soil types!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]871292[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel, post: 6882538, member: 315"] I confessed to some grievous sins of water managment on twitter yesterday. A heavy ridge of old river bed runs through this field of fen soil, and after potatoes last autumn it was far too wet to do anything with. As soon as possible this spring we pulled a superflow through it and combi drilled it with Chilham. It was then rolled. The fen soil has germinated nicely, but the ridge just baked solid, note the wheat emerged in the good soil top left of the picture:[ATTACH type="full" alt="20200416_154607.jpg"]871286[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20200416_154952.jpg"]871291[/ATTACH] Thought without a helping hand we'd struggle to get a crop:[ATTACH type="full" alt="20200416_154422.jpg"]871290[/ATTACH] The land had all straw removed for years by the previous tenant, so from this autumn it's chopped straw and covercrops, though 5 year FBTs do tend to limit the enthusiasm for this sort of investment. Might be worth a 2nd roll after emergence? Awkward fields to manage with such a variation in soil types! [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_egqlg7.jpg"]871292[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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