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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 1868114" data-attributes="member: 386">I walked over my neighbour's trial field with the Sumo and Dale areas. When I walked back over the field shortly after drilling I really didn't feel that optimistic about it - there was quite a lot of open slots and hair-pinning in sticky clay in the Sumo, and a pretty lumpy finish in the Dale area with quite a bit of smearing. Not a reflection on the drills' abilities because I don't think one would have chosen to go in these conditions.Nevertheless, having just walked some of our Claydon drilled fields which were drilled on the same day and which we had to maschio after drilling, I was pretty impressed. The wheat has come much better than I had expected and is not looking anywhere near as yellow as some of the min-tilled wheat around. The emergence down the row is better than I would have hoped for and wheat plants seemed to have grown through some pretty thick mats of straw. The Dale area also looked better than expected, although it does move a lot more soil and I think could struggle with trash clearance on the narrow row spacing - finished product is still good considering though.I'm not sure whether this year has been particularly kind, but this result has certainly increased my enthusiasm about disc drills' abilities. The result is probably better than Claydon drilled fields we did in slightly worse conditions (so not an entirely fair comparison) but with a lot less damage to the soil.Sumo:[ATTACH=full]245338[/ATTACH] (Sorry, still have the same carp phone.)Dale (drilled a few days later IIRC):[ATTACH=full]245340[/ATTACH]Generally around here 2nd wheats are looking pretty sad and yellow with all the wet and I would say this field looks better than average. Also, in this trial field areas with less straw definitely look better.</blockquote>

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