- Location
- Huntingdon
Would a mustard cover crop be worth chucking on ?
Spring drilling
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I thought it was held by a farm near DundeeRemember our college lecturer telling us the record was in Scotland.. showing my age
- Location
- Huntingdon
I’ve just found this :https://lgseeds.co.uk/heat-map/
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Hope so, cos that's next after these showers. Be best treated well though.
Could be
Gordon Rennie? Outside Edinburgh, but that was in the early 80s.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Little bit.
Mixedupfarmer
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Loads! Been concentrating on sugar beet first.
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Just started today
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
It was fife had the record, before that midlothian
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Started this afternoon.
Not much to do thankfully, so all being well, done by tomorrow night
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
I thought I'd finished but agronomist told me not to bother with MUM3,so its going in with s,barley.
MUM3 will go in the autumn now.
Drilled barley on the 22 last year,it made malting so it covered its arse.
Looking at weather its looking very unsettled at the end of the week,so I'll press on tomorrow,hopefully and it'll be up and away,its just needs to warm up
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
That would be the first time!!!!!!!Fife still does. Just we don't boast about it!
- Location
- Shropshire
Started this evening after a quick pit stop to put the combi on having just finished beans. Still got to work a lot of ground ahead of the drill.
should be finished by the time the weather breaks on Thursday. Oh and get the pre-em on the beans and get some nitrogen on top of the drilling…
I think it was @Tim May who had said he had been sowing almost every month in the last 10. Well I would swap that as we have had 3 windows to drill here:
1. Mauling it in, in September, on some of our lighter ground. About 5 days.
2. A hot week in October.
3. This week at the end of April where we are not only fighting against the weather but the calendar.
Utterly exhausting.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Must be only thing.Fife still does. Just we don't boast about it!
That would get rejected at the maltsers. Low germination.I thought I'd finished but agronomist told me not to bother with MUM3,so its going in with s,barley.
MUM3 will go in the autumn now.
Drilled barley on the 22 last year,it made malting so it covered its arse.
Looking at weather its looking very unsettled at the end of the week,so I'll press on tomorrow,hopefully and it'll be up and away,its just needs to warm up
View attachment 1177917This has been in the ground a week.
Got all the better land in by ploughing and combi, 30 acres of heavy clay after failed rape left to drill with barley, hoping to get a man with a direct disc drill just to slot it in, he mentioned subsoiling it first but I don’t see the point, it’s dry ish on top but wet underneath!