StripCat

Location
Cambridge
Started drilling today. Was a bit ropey on the first headlands, ground was a bit too hard, and some dead grass right on the outisde was causing the drill to think it was blocked up when it wasn't. Now we are out in the field it seems to be going well, touch wood.

 
Location
Cambridge
Hello!

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Location
Cambridge
Emergence has not been great, but not a disaster. The variance in size and emergence dates between the plants is very large, although our other [ploughed] field of Cayman is similar, if not quite as bad.

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Tractor Boy

Member
Location
Suffolk
Looks interesting. I use a Claydon drill on our heavy land farm and despite trying to keep the beet on our light farm where we still plough I sometimes have to put some onto the heavy land. This causes a problem as although I successfully claydon drill cereals into the beet trash provided they are harvested well, I have to plough before beet establishment. If this technique works it could solve that problem, as when I plough I can see the good work being undone. Where abouts in Cambridge are you and what sort of soil type?
 

Centre

Member
Location
Cambs
Did you strip till in the autumn or are you all heavy land? I have heard of people going back through in the spring but am not sure it is that wise?? We were advised to freshen the strips up however we had the tilth and structure already there and did not want to lose it. Beet crop started off backward and quickly overtook anything ploughed its now the best beet we have. Soils are silty, clay loam.
 

Dan Powell

Member
Location
Shropshire
Looks good, are you going to buy one?

Will you grow OSR and beet in rotation. If so how close? I wanted to go Wheat, OSR, Barley, Beet at one time but too worried about clubroot and nematodes.
 
Location
Cambridge
Looks good, are you going to buy one?

Will you grow OSR and beet in rotation. If so how close? I wanted to go Wheat, OSR, Barley, Beet at one time but too worried about clubroot and nematodes.

Still don't know. Personally I like it for the sugar beet, and am not convinced it is worth it for the OSR< although it does look good at the moment.

We generally grow OSR 1 in 4, and beet about 1 in 7/8
 

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