There is a very marked difference between spring cereals drilled before, and after, the more recent half-inch of rain. Those drilled after, and especially one I drove past today that hadnt been rolled, are either patchy or only growing where the drill has turned on the headland.
Spring crops really struggling
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
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We have actually managed to get the occasional minor success here from time to time over the years, Iben.
For example, when ADAS field-tested all 75 Axial-Flows imported in 1981, ours was the heaviest weighed crop in their report.
The last 10 months, however, have certainly been the most generally useless and yield-defeating I can recall.
One can only tell it as it is.
Roll on 2019 !
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
What soil type is that!?
Roll it again? Oats I rolled a couple of days ago already looking better.
The chalky edge of a clay outcrop. That field goes from heavy clay to light gravel lower down that usually droughts out if we get 2 weeks without rain in June/July. Strangely, the SOYL scientist doing the ground truthing has it marked as a sandy clay. The pic was taken on the egde of zone 21 looking east. The % figures on the right hand column are the estimated establishment that drive the variable rate seed.
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Do you have to have such a wide gap between rows with a Claydon. Can’t imagine May sown barley is going to fill that in.
31.5cm coulter spacing on the drill. Made better by the 7" A share with splitter boot sowing a 3-4" band of seed. It's the top setup in the picture with the blue point and Y splitter. Next one down is a 5" then a 3" at the bottom for better trash flow or larger seed.
I might invest in a set of 9" A shares in future for late drilling. It's surprising how the plants go sideways to fill the gaps in. Linseed is worst but @Daniel seems to get decent crops of linseed with this drill.
I might invest in a set of 9" A shares in future for late drilling. It's surprising how the plants go sideways to fill the gaps in. Linseed is worst but @Daniel seems to get decent crops of linseed with this drill.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Trial with liquid fert on spring barley. Darker bit of field on right had liquid.
Fish
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- North yorkshire
I bet the liquid contained as.
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
I'm not sure. Perhaps more sulphur. My agronomist has been pushing liquid fert for sometime so I said I'd try a bowser load. Be interesting to follow it through till harvest. The other side has had an 27n9s. 100 units total both sides. Had 250kg/ha 10.15.20 plus 20s at establishment so had a fair bit of Sulphur.
Sandy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
You’ll be coming to the dark side next spring!
Its obviously got hold of the N.
- Location
- Shropshire
Will it be a benefit even in this dry weather, and do you have to be careful of scrub when turning on the headlands?
Yes. Half 3 days pre drilling. The rest 36 hours after drilling. 6.5mm rain overnight 2 days after that. Could be worse!
- Location
- Cirencester
Spring wheat I did a while ago, you cannot see any damage on headlands and looks fine.
Slightly off topic but does anyone else find propino downs tools as soon as the going gets a bit rough? Never find it as tough as Tipple which I would still be growing but you have to move with the maltsters. I guess Planet is what I will move on to next, anybody got some side by side to compare? Is it any tougher? Or are there any others I should be considering?