Strip till beet, how has

[Colin]

As above, how has it worked for you? I have a chance to grow beet for and AD plant on light land, or would I be as cheap ploughing and pressing. I would be interested in putting some fert down on a strip with remainder spread on top.

 

[RTK Farmer]

It worked for me 2yrs ago ( without using cover crops) If I were still growing beet and wanting to DD combinables I'd be strip tilling CCs over winter with starter fert, rounduping in spring then drilling into the cover strips with a mulch beet drill. Lift early, light harrow to level then DD wheat.

 

[RmfJ]

It worked for me 2yrs ago ( without using cover crops) If I were still growing beet and wanting to DD combinables I'd be strip tilling CCs over winter with starter fert, rounduping in spring then drilling into the cover strips with a mulch beet drill. Lift early, light harrow to level then DD wheat.

Excellent shelter for those young beet plants.

 

[Colin]

It worked for me 2yrs ago ( without using cover crops) If I were still growing beet and wanting to DD combinables I'd be strip tilling CCs over winter with starter fert, rounduping in spring then drilling into the cover strips with a mulch beet drill. Lift early, light harrow to level then DD wheat.

What sort of drill do you use? What do you use to make the strips?

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Sly agri and Nathan Morris at TAG have done some work on this iirc?

 

[RTK Farmer]

Colin
Strip till machine was the Nathan Morris NIabTAG Yetter machine, KV demo machine did not materialise, drill was a Horsch Maestro demo drill on the farm doing some starter fert trials for Agrii.

 

[Rainmaker]

How do they get on with pre em weed control with the straw/uneven surface?

 

[RTK Farmer]

Roundup is the pre em, not much then grows on stubble strip, a band sprayer would be ideal.

 

[Farmersboy]

Cousins and Hutchinsons have done some work on strip till beet. Anybody got any experience?

 

[Tractor Boy]

Cousins and Hutchinsons have done some work on strip till beet. Anybody got any experience?

Did a few rows on heavy land. I did the strips with a borrowed machine in Autumn and they had slumped down by drilling so not a success! Think they needed doing again. On very light land I think it works either as one pass strip and drill or two passes very close together. Heavy land needs strips in Autumn then again Spring then dry before drill.

 

[Flat 10]

Did a few rows on heavy land. I did the strips with a borrowed machine in Autumn and they had slumped down by drilling so not a success! Think they needed doing again. On very light land I think it works either as one pass strip and drill or two passes very close together. Heavy land needs strips in Autumn then again Spring then dry before drill.

That is pretty much what we were told at the beet technical conference.

 

[Will 1594]

Putting 70 kg Spring barley in legs set at 45 cm and blowing seed between legs then hopefully drill between the strips of barley Hope to keep the moisture. , stop blow . Got oil raddish in another field . Putting disc openers on drill should be interesting drilling it next march

 

[Ruston3w]

I've given up doing anything "rowcrop" in the autumn, just too difficult keeping things where they should be next March.Drill would go twice as well across ridges? Land which will strip-till in the spring gets all-over cc, if too heavy then scratch (x-press) then rake in turnip rape-less stalky than raddish, then straight behind will l/d subsoiler.Drill across last years tramlines so can use for roundup and in beet. Never seems to work the same twice.....
Richard.