- Location
- South West
I'm not an arable man but keep an eye on hat's happening and am interested in the way the industry is headed.
A fella near us has been sowing spring barley after getting caught out in the back end and left with a few hundred unsown acres.
Most fields were disced twice, subsoiled, roterrad, sown, then rolled. That seems like a lot of passes and extra work when the industry is going the other way? A man was hired in to help do the work too, so the labour wasn't 'free'.
Not to mention the field is now white, the second load of fert now sitting on top of what hasn't blown away from the first lot a couple of weeks back. No rain so it's never dissolved.
Any opinions on how sustainable the above is? I'm intrigued as what I read as to current industry aims is directly opposite.
A fella near us has been sowing spring barley after getting caught out in the back end and left with a few hundred unsown acres.
Most fields were disced twice, subsoiled, roterrad, sown, then rolled. That seems like a lot of passes and extra work when the industry is going the other way? A man was hired in to help do the work too, so the labour wasn't 'free'.
Not to mention the field is now white, the second load of fert now sitting on top of what hasn't blown away from the first lot a couple of weeks back. No rain so it's never dissolved.
Any opinions on how sustainable the above is? I'm intrigued as what I read as to current industry aims is directly opposite.