Spring drilling 2021

[yellow belly]

Stilll to wet
cold soil
bg will thrive on any land planted so far

looking back all the best spring crops have been planted after today
except 1988

 

[snarling bee]

Done 100 acres spring beans.
900 acres spring cereals and peas to go. Still too sticky here with too many wet spots.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Stilll to wet
cold soil
bg will thrive on any land planted so far

looking back all the best spring crops have been planted after today
except 1988

I'm waiting for warmer soils for barley too. Maybe next week

 

[4course]

one patch of lighter land thats been ploughed a fortnight will hopefully be sown tommorrow though would like to see soil temps a bit higher sp beans and some barley following cover crops will be next

 

[Chae1]

That's me 200 acres in now.

On the beach today.

 

[Jerry]

Rolled in...

 

[zero]

Ours is on the shady north side of the hills and needs a bit more time to warm and dry up so spring barley can hit the ground running..

 

[glasshouse]

Rolled in...

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Why the weights?

 

[Adeptandy]

Started on S Beans today.

 

[Selectamatic]

Made a start, but still too wet in most places.

 

[Heathland]

Should get S barley finished tomorrow,first lot is up then 100ac of spring beans,then sugar beet end of the week,that is if it doesn't rain.
Its like snot underneath.

 

[eagleye]

sp beans finished last week, rolled and preemed
oats started today, claydon hybrid with twin tine kit

 

[JCfarmer]

Will hopefully get spring barley drilled this week.
Spring beans will be going in with the Claydon but on some heavy cold ground so will wait another week at least.

 

[robbie]

Barley finished here Sunday. Started 25feb. Been stop start.

I'm well behind you others

I have two fields which we did some remedial drainage work on over winter and that's still too wet where we put ruts in and I have another 40 odd acres of my "heavy" that was ploughed just before the rain can at the end of September and that has wet spots that won't hold a tractor yet.

Still putting muck on some of the beet land but could be ploughing and drilling some beet if I had the seed.

On a brighter not the wheat drilled in January and barley drilled a fortnight ago is doing well, we could just do with some warmer weather.

 

[Flat 10]

I'm well behind you others

I have two fields which we did some remedial drainage work on over winter and that's still too wet where we put ruts in and I have another 40 odd acres of my "heavy" that was ploughed just before the rain can at the end of September and that has wet spots that won't hold a tractor yet.

Still putting muck on some of the beet land but could be ploughing and drilling some beet if I had the seed.

On a brighter not the wheat drilled in January and barley drilled a fortnight ago is doing well, we could just do with some warmer weather.

I’m behind, lots of fert to spread, and still some land coming beet to plough that’s very wet and rutted from muck application.

 

[robbie]

Everything is up to speed with fert although the barley will be wanting the rest before long and I sprayed everything with MN over the weekend. My mate is making his way around the farm rolling everything that's dry enough.
A few dry days and we'll be getting sorted and will wonder what all the fuss was about.....hopefully.

 

[Wombat]

did some spring wheat abotu 3 weeks ago, too wet for spring barley in all but one field still, which will get done this week, then its wait for it to dry up a bit more

 

[Fish]

light land will drill, heavy land is still too wet, as every field contains both types, still godda wait abit longer.

 

[Spencer]

Snow forecast Friday......
Will have a look next week.

 

[4course]

slight change of plan, beans in yesterday afternoon ,went well had a broken land drain to avoid maybe 20sq yards so will live with that. On now with sp barley after a 10mile move this morning with another 15 mile move after lunch and hopefully 12 mile home before bed just over 100 acres in 3 blocks ,roller following round 24hr later then another off block to do not yet decided wether to plough or sow through recently roundupped stubble as its relatively light land as an experiment or if weather with us might do half and half im loath to give the plough up its always allowed us to get a crop and riding round some but not all of the "scratched "ww looks awful too many thin bare patches for my liking