Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We wouldn't have had 2mm yet.
Spring drilling 2021
- Thread starter JCfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Undisturbed spring barley stubbles on sticker land with a mat of chopped straw are still hopelessly wet . Lots of worms under a good mulch but will probably need a fortnight of dry weather to dry enough to drill. So leaving them undisturbed over winter and hoping to direct drill on all but the sand is a non starter.
really need a management plan for each field. They are all different sadly. High light and dry. Low heavy and wet. Drains need looking at in places as well. This farms hard work
Autumn plough everything but the light sand. Direct drill it if there is a decent size block of it. Just thinking out loud.
Spring is ploughing makes a pan and dries out too fast. Not really enough time for weathering. Min till, well maybe. Do they make a shallow pan? Is that any worse than a plough pan? Go deeper, mix seed through the profile, protracted emergence. Ho hum.
No, just blast it all with the stubble cultivator behind the combine. Spray off and drill autumn or spring. Straw mat gone, enough trash to avoid erosion, good chit, and brings it up for weathering. System took an idiot can use. Keeps it all level and you can start anywhere.
really need a management plan for each field. They are all different sadly. High light and dry. Low heavy and wet. Drains need looking at in places as well. This farms hard work
Autumn plough everything but the light sand. Direct drill it if there is a decent size block of it. Just thinking out loud.
Spring is ploughing makes a pan and dries out too fast. Not really enough time for weathering. Min till, well maybe. Do they make a shallow pan? Is that any worse than a plough pan? Go deeper, mix seed through the profile, protracted emergence. Ho hum.
No, just blast it all with the stubble cultivator behind the combine. Spray off and drill autumn or spring. Straw mat gone, enough trash to avoid erosion, good chit, and brings it up for weathering. System took an idiot can use. Keeps it all level and you can start anywhere.
15mm and a poor 10 day forecast , could be middle of April before we really make a start!! might get an odd field in before , but soil conditions will not be great.
Sandy
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Same here but slightly more rain it’s better in the bag with our current weather
is that bottom photo @Fish the peas being drilled?
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Yes,
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We're lucky down here. I've over 500 acres in. Light/$h!te land.
Maybe better in the bag if forecast right. Given it all plenty seed. Headlands 300kg/ha.
Last 2 years been desperate for rain after drilling. Pre em on and 5mm now given it a good start.
Sandy
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
You’ll be okay it’s coming from the north so we’re f**ked
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Boys out today , semi knocking down ground destined for Maize. It should possibly be in the machinery forum but the middle of the line up is a 8S 225 demo and as a die hard Fendt man I have to say I'm quite impressed with it. I only sat in it in the yard but the lads have given it a thumbs up over the current 7000 series.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I think I need another another implement. It's cheap though and doesn't use diesel.
Patience.
Patience.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Last of the spring drilling.
Spring barley into spring barley stubble. A nice dry bit.
Spring barley into spring barley stubble. A nice dry bit.
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Off and running ...
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
- Location
- Sedgefield
Got 150 acre spring barley drilled and rolled
Was stuff that was ploughed and has dried out lovely in this last 10 day weather window
I think it’s probably a bit cold still but we can’t predict the weather anymore so reckoned it was better in the ground in fine fettle
and the neighbours were all on !!
Another 150 to go but will just sumo/carrier/Vaderstadt that so probably wait till after Easter to start on that
No rush
Was stuff that was ploughed and has dried out lovely in this last 10 day weather window
I think it’s probably a bit cold still but we can’t predict the weather anymore so reckoned it was better in the ground in fine fettle
and the neighbours were all on !!
Another 150 to go but will just sumo/carrier/Vaderstadt that so probably wait till after Easter to start on that
No rush
- Location
- Cheltenham
Polish your new tractor perhaps?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It’s been one of those seasons where it’s always been a bit wetter than ideal underneath while the top dries almost too rapidly.
Not sure why the ladder is a different colour now. Noticed it on the demo machine. Perhaps too many were getting crumbled/people were dropping them on their heads.
I gave up on that a month ago!