Rolling Winter Wheat

[two-cylinder]

Roll ours after drilling before pre ems.

 

[teslacoils]

Does rolling actually improve yield?

Yup.

 

[Brisel]

Does rolling actually improve yield?

Reduces the yield of stones going through the combine. It can reduce lodging on soft soils. It encourages tillering, so overall I'd say yes, it can do. Roll when it's too wet underneath or when the stems are damaged or the ear has been formed, then it will reduce yield.

 

[Brisel]

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.

Once round the outside then with the tramlines as I have 12.3m rolls on 36m tramlines so only 2 sets of wheelings per tramline.

 

[Steevo]

Once round the outside then with the tramlines as I have 12.3m rolls on 36m tramlines so only 2 sets of wheelings per tramline.

I see your two wheelings per tramline and raise you a single wheeling per tramline.

On that basis I'll stick to straight lines.

Trouble is I'll have to skip bouts somewhere or other to keep the up/down/up stripes else @Robert K and @Pan mixer will be having fits.

 

[Godber]

Rolled a few acres of the February drilled bits to see if it makes a difference.

Where pre ems went on in the autumn could rolling now wake some Blackgrass?

 

[Clive]

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.

all fits our 12m ctf so no extra wheeling, roll every other run them fill in gaps, x2 runs between every 36m tramline

 

[JCfarmer]

24m tramlines here and 12.2 rolls, roll up every tramline and then back fill

 

[KB6930]

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.

Do every other width then fill in on the way back and once round the endrig that's with 6.2m rollers on 24m tramlines

 

[ajd132]

18m rolls on 36m trams here, up the hill on the tramline, down hill inbetween. Once around the headland, you can get it all like this apart from the occasional teardrop shape if you turn too quickly

 

[Oscar]

Tried some of mine yesterday but ground is too hard already and felt I was wasting my time . Had rollers here as drilled SBarley also yesterday and have rolled that . Just going to do the real backward fields rather than the lot .

 

[ollie989898]

The headlands always look worse than they are, it recovers fine.

 

[JCfarmer]

I'm rolling the wheat just as much as the soil.

 

[teslacoils]

Rolled a few acres of the February drilled bits to see if it makes a difference.

Where pre ems went on in the autumn could rolling now wake some Blackgrass?

Tbh drying, cracking soils will wake the BG anyway.

 

[Brisel]

Rolled a few acres of the February drilled bits to see if it makes a difference.

Where pre ems went on in the autumn could rolling now wake some Blackgrass?

There won’t be much left of the pre em but if you disturb the soil then you will get a small flush of weeds.

 

[Barleymow]

Did most of mine yesterday, most worrying bit is making sure its striped correctly line a lawn

 

[robbie]

Back in 2014 we had a field of wheat after beet that suffered terribly with MN early on as well as getting hit had with wheat bulb fly in patches. We cambridge rolled it as early as we could and it still wouldn't get going so we have a heavy roll we use for farm track repairs. It's a 1m diameter gass pipe filled with concrete and weighs 5 odd tons. We rolled the wheat with that and where it was think it looked like nothing was left, we had to be careful how we turned so it didnt scrub but my God did it transform the crop. It went from being a near right off to a very good crop by harvest.

 

[Try to succeed]

I’ve never had to roll wheat before so a bit nervous, currently rolling. Tillers are actually being chopped off and growing points completely crushed. How much damage is acceptable in relation to the gain I’ll get?

 

[Clive]

I’ve never had to roll wheat before so a bit nervous, currently rolling. Tillers are actually being chopped off and growing points completely crushed. How much damage is acceptable in relation to the gain I’ll get?

it’s all gain ! Just like pruning roses ?

 

[teslacoils]

it’s all gain ! Just like pruning roses ?

If you have an agronomist who recommends rolling, you've got a keeper.