I already have to pay either directly or indirectly for basis points nowadays so if the price was right I’d be happy to do so on here. Agronomy update days usually £80 for 12 points as a guide but of course you get some good info too…and usually a lunch. And a free pen.
I take it you are mostly on stone free soil? Our stoney/gravely soil means it all has to be destoned to full depth or its damaged potatoes at harvest and possibly a bent share on the harvester.
Same here, its bad when the alley wont hold enough stone to get soil for the next bedI take it you are mostly on stone free soil? Our stoney/gravely soil means it all has to be destoned to full depth or its damaged potatoes at harvest and possibly a bent share on the harvester.
Is that for free living nematodes? What cover crop mix do you use? I use quite a bit of oilseed radish but as we don't have winter barley in the rotation they are established a bit later than ideal so maybe dont get as much growth as I would like.
PCN was the focus but yes FLN too. The key I think is avoiding other host weeds in stubbles, and keeping live roots in the ground to bolster the good microbes.
Sounds an efficient system. How deep are you going with the 11 legs?
I can see a kind of 'advisor directory' being a useful resource, for sure.
No we are not on stone free ground, we have patches of sandstone some of which is rugby ball size. We destone to full depth ie we want 275mm of separated soil to plant into. So long as we have 75mm of destoned soil under the seed tuber we don’t catch anything with the share. If we go too deep we fill the trench . The bedformer we use leaves a line about 150mm up from the bottom of the trench. We use this as a target so we get consistent wheelings iyswim. We take the pick up hitch off the destoning tractor so it doesn’t bull doze soil back into the wheelings. We can’t afford to compromise as this we be a backward step. So we achieve this by making incremental changes and checking that we are still achieving our parameters.I take it you are mostly on stone free soil? Our stoney/gravely soil means it all has to be destoned to full depth or its damaged potatoes at harvest and possibly a bent share on the harvester.
Every field different ,
What’s the bulldog?
Most important thing on farm
I bet that was nearer 30yrs ago than 20! Old Reekie 200?
Cos that’s the way they’ve allllllllllllways done it!
As I said it does not have to be like this but the habit is hard to break. Forgot to say its actually a double crop as the spuds are harvested earlier it allows a crop of Leeks to be planted on the same ground for harvest Dec through to March. 36 per IBC container.
