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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 6393254" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>Thanks. Just trying to show something from another farming environment. Thought some might be interested in something a bit different</p><p>Cotton is a perennial plant, but we grow it as an annual.</p><p>Part of the regulations / legislation of it being a GM crop is it must be terminated at the end of the season, to help prevent insects building resistence to the genes</p><p></p><p>Fertiliser ? How long is a bit of string? There are effectively 2 cotton industries here. Irrigation, where yields are high, cotton is the dominant or only crop & inputs are very high. In those situations, then yes, a lot of fert is used.</p><p>Dryland ( ie, no itrigation ) cotton tends to be just another crop in a varied rotation of both cool season & warm season crops. Yields are lower because obviously water is the limiting factor, but inputs are very low. Fert rates are quite low or depending on rotation / history environmental conditions there may be no fert. Most of what we've been harvesting is dryland or very limited irrigation, which is where strippers are far better suited than pickers</p><p>I'm purely dryland on my own farm.</p><p></p><p>We have very little fungicide use here. Never heard of it being used in cotton, although I'm assuming there is some on the seed dressing - would have to check a bag label. I've never used fungicides on my wheat & that is quite normal here . . . Used to used fungicides on legumes prior to rain events, but I avoid doing that now. I really don't like fungicides / try to avoid there use at all times</p><p>Cotton is planted as a seed, once soil temps are high enough. 14 C & rising at 9.00am, in our spring. Harvested autumn / winter ( been doing this since March, about 2 weeks to finish )</p><p>Row spacing is generally based around 1 metre rows. Irrigation is planted "solid" - ie every row planted. Depending on stored soil moisture, geographical / environmental location, seasonal outlook, attitude to risk etc etc then dryland can be planted in any configuration from solid 1 m rows, single skip, double skip, 2m or even 3 m rows. The skip rows / wide rows are all about conserving stored soil moisture till later in the growing season as the roots grow across to access it. We rely on stored soil moisture, rather than expecting rain when we want it.</p><p>All dryland is planted zero till, most often into standing cereal straw, to conserve moisture.</p><p>I generally plant my cotton on single skip, but based on what I've seen this year & facing the fact our environment is getting hotter & dryer, I think I'll go out to 2 m rows in the future.</p><p>The planters use double disc openers ( for the most precise seed placement & minimal soil disturbance ) on a parallelogram, using precision seed boxes to singulate seed for precise seed spacings. Most common boxes are the JD vacuum meters, Kinze brush meters & you do see a few Monosem vacuum meters as well. But the JD boxes, either on JD Maxemerge planters or on other locally built machines, are pretty much the industry standard</p><p>I have posted detailed pics here before of both the seed meters & the disc openers, but don't have any on my phone now. The pics are my planter. A 12 m Norseman bar & parallelogram disc units ( built locally ) with JD vacuum boxes. It also gets used for all my summer row crops & I recently planted my chickpeas ( cool season legume ) with it as I wanted the wide row spacings to get greater airflow between the rows, minimising disease & hopefully avoiding the use of fungicide ( chickies are vulnerable to fungal diseases ) by creating a dryer micro climate around the leaves.</p><p>Hope I've answered all your questions</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]813476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813482[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 6393254, member: 71668"] Thanks. Just trying to show something from another farming environment. Thought some might be interested in something a bit different Cotton is a perennial plant, but we grow it as an annual. Part of the regulations / legislation of it being a GM crop is it must be terminated at the end of the season, to help prevent insects building resistence to the genes Fertiliser ? How long is a bit of string? There are effectively 2 cotton industries here. Irrigation, where yields are high, cotton is the dominant or only crop & inputs are very high. In those situations, then yes, a lot of fert is used. Dryland ( ie, no itrigation ) cotton tends to be just another crop in a varied rotation of both cool season & warm season crops. Yields are lower because obviously water is the limiting factor, but inputs are very low. Fert rates are quite low or depending on rotation / history environmental conditions there may be no fert. Most of what we've been harvesting is dryland or very limited irrigation, which is where strippers are far better suited than pickers I'm purely dryland on my own farm. We have very little fungicide use here. Never heard of it being used in cotton, although I'm assuming there is some on the seed dressing - would have to check a bag label. I've never used fungicides on my wheat & that is quite normal here . . . Used to used fungicides on legumes prior to rain events, but I avoid doing that now. I really don't like fungicides / try to avoid there use at all times Cotton is planted as a seed, once soil temps are high enough. 14 C & rising at 9.00am, in our spring. Harvested autumn / winter ( been doing this since March, about 2 weeks to finish ) Row spacing is generally based around 1 metre rows. Irrigation is planted "solid" - ie every row planted. Depending on stored soil moisture, geographical / environmental location, seasonal outlook, attitude to risk etc etc then dryland can be planted in any configuration from solid 1 m rows, single skip, double skip, 2m or even 3 m rows. The skip rows / wide rows are all about conserving stored soil moisture till later in the growing season as the roots grow across to access it. We rely on stored soil moisture, rather than expecting rain when we want it. All dryland is planted zero till, most often into standing cereal straw, to conserve moisture. I generally plant my cotton on single skip, but based on what I've seen this year & facing the fact our environment is getting hotter & dryer, I think I'll go out to 2 m rows in the future. The planters use double disc openers ( for the most precise seed placement & minimal soil disturbance ) on a parallelogram, using precision seed boxes to singulate seed for precise seed spacings. Most common boxes are the JD vacuum meters, Kinze brush meters & you do see a few Monosem vacuum meters as well. But the JD boxes, either on JD Maxemerge planters or on other locally built machines, are pretty much the industry standard I have posted detailed pics here before of both the seed meters & the disc openers, but don't have any on my phone now. The pics are my planter. A 12 m Norseman bar & parallelogram disc units ( built locally ) with JD vacuum boxes. It also gets used for all my summer row crops & I recently planted my chickpeas ( cool season legume ) with it as I wanted the wide row spacings to get greater airflow between the rows, minimising disease & hopefully avoiding the use of fungicide ( chickies are vulnerable to fungal diseases ) by creating a dryer micro climate around the leaves. Hope I've answered all your questions [ATTACH=full]813476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813482[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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