pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
So as some of you know, I have been playing about with DD. Put some WB in late October last year with a SimTech demo and I've put some spring barley in 2 weeks ago with a friend Horsch C04 which he has just converted to 5" dutch openers with the open foot.
Now I have 20 acre of very old pasture, at least 30 years, that I would like to bring into my rotation. My plan is to DD spring barley and Oats (separately, as its in three fields) into it. Till yesterday it has been grazed cattle which have now been moved on to summer grassing further away. So time to crack on. Had hoped to maybe have bought a second hand SimTech drill by now, but that hasn't panned out and the nearest is 50 miles away. So my options are a contractor with a moore (@hally would you be interested?) or my friends Horsch. We've had a trial with the Horsch this week in a small field. Its made a reasonable job, but maybe slightly more pulling of the turf in places than I'd like as the seed is not covered there. This can be improved by going deeper, but this is where my worry is. With the 5" dutch boots with the open back, the spread of seed is very good, but will that seed be able to push up though the turf/sod. As with the winter sown SimTech, the seeds came up through the slot.
Hope that makes sense. Oh and the plan is to spray off just before or maybe just after sowing. Probably the latter as I might have a play this weekend and I don't have any glypho in stock.
Now I have 20 acre of very old pasture, at least 30 years, that I would like to bring into my rotation. My plan is to DD spring barley and Oats (separately, as its in three fields) into it. Till yesterday it has been grazed cattle which have now been moved on to summer grassing further away. So time to crack on. Had hoped to maybe have bought a second hand SimTech drill by now, but that hasn't panned out and the nearest is 50 miles away. So my options are a contractor with a moore (@hally would you be interested?) or my friends Horsch. We've had a trial with the Horsch this week in a small field. Its made a reasonable job, but maybe slightly more pulling of the turf in places than I'd like as the seed is not covered there. This can be improved by going deeper, but this is where my worry is. With the 5" dutch boots with the open back, the spread of seed is very good, but will that seed be able to push up though the turf/sod. As with the winter sown SimTech, the seeds came up through the slot.
Hope that makes sense. Oh and the plan is to spray off just before or maybe just after sowing. Probably the latter as I might have a play this weekend and I don't have any glypho in stock.