Rolling Winter Wheat

JCfarmer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
warks
Has anyone started rolling winter wheat as yet, I have been holding off as night time temperatures have been very low to freezing?
 

nick...

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Arable Farmer
Location
south norfolk
Done some ten days ago and finished yesterday after waiting ten days after spraying.some ground now like concrete and rolls not doing much.certainly perked up the barley rolled 2 weeks ago
 

Robert K

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Started rolling ours today
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ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Is anyone going to roll spring wheat once it’s up?
Also, in a more normal year should we roll winter wheat as a matter of course, rather than using ccc and possibly micronutrients early on? It feels like a better way of mimicking a more natural grazed and trodden type effect?
 

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
When people roll wheat.....what route do they usually take across the field? Headland and lands? Or round and round in ever decreasing shapes?

Always wondered as the headland could take quite a hammering.
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
When people roll wheat.....what route do they usually take across the field? Headland and lands? Or round and round in ever decreasing shapes?

Always wondered as the headland could take quite a hammering.
Controlled traffic style, using the tramlines as much as possible to reduce unnecessary wheelings.
 
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Longneck

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Mixed Farmer
Did all mine last week, finished on Sunday. Will go in with mang and some ccc on the October drilled stuff end of this week. It’s already looking much better.
I go up and down the tramlines first then come back across the field and fill in the gaps than once round the headland. Auto steer makes this much easier tho.
 

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