Feldspar
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You can see though where emergence has suffered in the unraked area where the slot has been left incompletely closed. The rooks and slugs may have exacerbated the effect.
Is the open slot due to not raking or because of the blackgrass cover retaining moisture in the soil or just a heavier patch. We have the same effect in patches after the sumo DD. Those patches are where there was a higher BG population and more moisture retained. Whole field was "tickled"You can see though where emergence has suffered in the unraked area where the slot has been left incompletely closed. The rooks and slugs may have exacerbated the effect.
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Is the open slot due to not raking or because of the blackgrass cover retaining moisture in the soil or just a heavier patch. We have the same effect in patches after the sumo DD. Those patches are where there was a higher BG population and more moisture retained. Whole field was "tickled"
Is the open slot due to not raking or because of the blackgrass cover retaining moisture in the soil or just a heavier patch. We have the same effect in patches after the sumo DD. Those patches are where there was a higher BG population and more moisture retained. Whole field was "tickled"
Was having a look myself Jonathan at your field and noticed the difference in establishment on the old BG patches, after a bit of digging I found a few dead rotting seeds in the slot. I wondered if it was the effect of the dying root mass of the BG that would cause this to happen, as other parts of the field where some slotting has occurred, establishment looks ok even thought the top of the slot is open as opposed to the drilling in the BG patches that the drill actually closed the slot pretty well.
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Was having a look myself Jonathan at your field and noticed the difference in establishment on the old BG patches, after a bit of digging I found a few dead rotting seeds in the slot. I wondered if it was the effect of the dying root mass of the BG that would cause this to happen, as other parts of the field where some slotting has occurred, establishment looks ok even thought the top of the slot is open as opposed to the drilling in the BG patches that the drill actually closed the slot pretty well.
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Sumo DD3 polished up and ready for Cereals!
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Plus on the working demo plots, which amongst a number of other machines, we will have the DD6 and DTS4 actually 'drilling' a product into the ground to give you a good representation of seed placement in real conditions (hope this works now!!)
See you there. Marv.
You didnt pinch those springs off a McConnel seedaerator did you Marcus?No hydraulic down-force with springs instead? Is that going to be a feature on the wider models?
Looking at the Cereals site map Bullock-Tillage was only a few yards from your stand but we never saw your kit working as we spent two days in a dust cloud..!Many thanks to all of you that came to see us at the Sumo stand at Cereals, we've had a busy few days and a massive amount of interest in our new products including the new DD, so thank you to all those that took the time to have a look, and for the hundreds of enquiries we received for it, and all of our other range of equipment.
From my point of view it was great to get opinions and feed back on the new DD which is always hugely important to us, and to see so much interest in what we are trying to achieve with it. The working demo plots worked well in showing off the DD and DTS, and I was pleased that the 'drilling' of the wood pellets was a success as it gave you a good idea of seed placement in real time conditions. I know the ground was not exactly ideal with it being very light and dry, but I think drilling an area and leaving it for people to have a scratch about behind the drilling was favourable to turning our demo plot into some kind of dessert storm recreation!
Still not sure about the sowing rate on wood pellets though. Anyone?!
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Although we now have a lot of DD demo enquiries to work through this Autumn, we will have our 6m DD for the North and East and also @Johndeere will have a 6m DD for the South and South West, so there is still a good opportunity to see these drills working on your farm. We will also be putting the 3m into the ground after this summer's show season, so please get in touch if you wish to see any of these machines working by either contacting us at [email protected] or through myself or @Johndeere.
I would especially be interested in anyone with green cover/cover crops we could have a go in please.
Also a big thank you to Scrutons and Louth Tractors for the lend of the demo tractors and to Dave Franciosy for his massive selfie stick!!
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ATB, Marv.