Spring barley poor germination,

[Sprayer 1]

Anyone else experienced poor germination this spring when dd with the simtech?
Thinking it may of been because the soil was cold at drilling. Anyone else found this?

 

[redsloe]

Too deep?
I strip tilled a few scats deeper than necessary and it looks sh!t. It will fill in ok I guess.

 

[Sprayer 1]

Too deep?
I strip tilled a few scats deeper than necessary and it looks sh!t. It will fill in ok I guess.

Possibly, I went a bit deeper to get under the muckspreader tracks. Struggle to ever drill under 3 inches with the simtech though.

 

[EddieB]

Not this year, but I had a terrible field of dd spring barley last year. Didn’t know what I was doing, had oats in the cover crop which I didn’t terminate soon enough.

 

[yellow belly]

Slugs and crows caused poor establishment in some fields
others where slot well closed drilled later has come better
some that was emerging during the coldest frosty week not a good looking

 

[robs1]

Maybe too early, we have had a good germination as moisture underneath growing like hell now, the only bit that are thinner are where there was oat volunteer that we didnt spray off early enough as it was too wet .

 

[Sprayer 1]

Could be too early, we had frosts from planting to well after emergence. Only did it because it had dried out. Since the end of frosts it has had rain every day, some is flooded out .thank God the wheat and beans look good at the moment.

 

[Ruston3w]

Was the overdrilled bit of headland better? We keep finding some fields are slow to germinate /patchy but the ground moved twice (albeit only by the drill) is better. It only shows in spring cropping here......tempts me to do a minute amount of cultivation????

 

[Sprayer 1]

Was the overdrilled bit of headland better? We keep finding some fields are slow to germinate /patchy but the ground moved twice (albeit only by the drill) is better. It only shows in spring cropping here......tempts me to do a minute amount of cultivation????

I am afraid to say I agree.

 

[YELROM]

Was the overdrilled bit of headland better? We keep finding some fields are slow to germinate /patchy but the ground moved twice (albeit only by the drill) is better. It only shows in spring cropping here......tempts me to do a minute amount of cultivation????

We are finding the same and had a Terrastar on demo this spring, i liked for its simplicity with no packer to bung up and could cover some ground fairly quickly but would worry about it value in a couple of years if we wanted to sell it and also as it 'pecks' a hole about every 6"it left a rough finish which driving on with a tractor is like driving down a cobbled street
The agronomist thinks we need something working shallow with a wing like a Cousins micro wing, i would like to try a Vaderstad Carrier but might be the wrong tool in a wet spring
What is anyone else using

 

[redsloe]

We are finding the same and had a Terrastar on demo this spring, i liked for its simplicity with no packer to bung up and could cover some ground fairly quickly but would worry about it value in a couple of years if we wanted to sell it and also as it 'pecks' a hole about every 6"it left a rough finish which driving on with a tractor is like driving down a cobbled street
The agronomist thinks we need something working shallow with a wing like a Cousins micro wing, i would like to try a Vaderstad Carrier but might be the wrong tool in a wet spring
What is anyone else using

Going to try short discs for something like that. Not really looking to do too much if necessary.

 

[Sprayer 1]

I was thinking maybe that the last two horrendously wet winters may have washed nutrients out of the top sowing zone, which would only show up DD.

 

[Ruston3w]

We have a short disc, partly bought with that job in mind but it doesn't really work as well as you would hope shallower than 3-4"- way more disturbance than I'm after. We have tried a Carrier a couple of times before but found we needed a bigger tractor to pull a trailed machine than I want to run on my fields in the spring.
We are only drilling a relatively small area at any one time and have no road work so I am thinking seriously about a 3.5m mounted Carrier, of course there aren't many sold here so no demonstrator and few used. Anybody here have experience of the mounted version?

Richard.

 

[steveR]

Seen SB being redrilled after a plough and combi setup failed. Went in with a big tined machine last weekend.