Spring drilling

[Hesstondriver]

Me too , got 15 acres of pp that was roundupped last August that will have to be done

Would a mustard cover crop be worth chucking on ?

 

[Chae1]

Remember our college lecturer telling us the record was in Scotland.. showing my age

I thought it was held by a farm near Dundee

 

[Hesstondriver]

Can you do the same for heat units?

I’ve just found this :https://lgseeds.co.uk/heat-map/

 

[teslacoils]

Would a mustard cover crop be worth chucking on ?

Hope so, cos that's next after these showers. Be best treated well though.

 

[bobk]

Would a mustard cover crop be worth chucking on ?

Could be

 

[Iben]

I thought it was held by a farm near Dundee

Gordon Rennie? Outside Edinburgh, but that was in the early 80s.

 

[Barley]

who’s still got barley to plant?

 

[teslacoils]

who’s still got barley to plant?

Little bit.

 

[Mixedupfarmer]

who’s still got barley to plant?

Loads! Been concentrating on sugar beet first.

 

[Willie adie]

Just started today

 

[glasshouse]

The world wheat yield record was held in Aberdeenshire before the Kiwis (Mr Solari) started trading blows with Mr Lammyman to set the next benchmark

It was fife had the record, before that midlothian

 

[Iben]

It was fife had the record, before that midlothian

Fife still does. Just we don't boast about it!

 

[Zippy768]

who’s still got barley to plant?

Started this afternoon.
Not much to do thankfully, so all being well, done by tomorrow night

 

[Heathland]

who’s still got barley to plant?

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

This has been in the ground a week.

 

[glasshouse]

Fife still does. Just we don't boast about it!

That would be the first time!!!!!!!

 

[Salopian_Will]

Started this afternoon.
Not much to do thankfully, do all be well done by tomorrow night

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.

 

[goodevans]

Like because I know what you mean

 

[Chae1]

Fife still does. Just we don't boast about it!

Must be only thing.

 

[Green oak]

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.

That would get rejected at the maltsers. Low germination.

 

[Welgerbaler]

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!