- Location
- Bedfordshire
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Triton direct seed drill
- Thread starter R J H
- Start date
Sorry, long day
Have you not been paying attention Young Skinner? All the clever kids drill their wheat on 15th November, come puddle, snow or dust. You only need sow about 250 seeds, pop them in a Triton #wonderdrill and 1100 heads will result, producing 5t/ac as a conservative estimate. As long as you blather plenty of AminoA on at every verse end. Simple, really. All you have to worry about is how to spend all the brass!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
They only start on the wettest day in December, ideally through four inches of snow.
I wonder if there's an AminoA seed dressing yet?
- Location
- E Yorks
Has anybody opened there FW this week see there something in there better be sat down to read it otherwise might injure myself!!
foxbox
Member
- Location
- West Northants
No mention of Amino A, I assume the editor must've mis-understood the symbiotic relationship between drill and spray..
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I can sell you some, you will need the drill to go with it though, and you must wait for the first snow fall before drilling. Then sit back and continuous wheat will return a gross margin of £1500/ha with ZERO blackgrass. Possibly.
If only Carlsberg made drills
- Location
- E Yorks
The comedy has now got into the farmers guide and the claims are equally preposterous when is some one going to say ‘bulls**t’!
but then again why would they for comedy value alone it must be allowed to continue in fact perhaps we should all promote it!
but then again why would they for comedy value alone it must be allowed to continue in fact perhaps we should all promote it!
I tried some on some spuds this time....honest accurate factual report to follow...
Sprayer 1
Member
- Location
- Tarporley, Cheshire.
With the amount of rain we have had, and more to come, unless we have a long dry spell it will be too wet for the SimTech to put any wheat in. Just a small corner of my mind is thinking, maybe the Triton on a days demo couldn't cause too much harm, could it? I would even buy a gallon of the wonder juice to make the trip to Cheshire worth it.
I've put my money where my mouth is, and bought 100litres of this wonder jollop, and set some trials up.
Two out of three spud fields now dug, weighed and assessed. Neither particularly high yielding, but both fields show a REDUCED yield of 14% on the TREATED trial.
Let's put some numbers to this, for context.
18.3t/ac untreated, all marketable size
15.7t/ac treated yield. Less even tuber size, some unmarketable, but left in the trial to represent gross yield.
At approximately £160/t, that lost 2.6t/acre has cost me £416/acre. On top of about a tenner an acre for the AminoA Flo.
That's over a grand a hectare. Five hectares treated between these two fields.
I have to say the man behind the product has been less than helpful in offering explanation or solution.
Let's hope the other spud field and the beet trial shows something miraculous.
Two out of three spud fields now dug, weighed and assessed. Neither particularly high yielding, but both fields show a REDUCED yield of 14% on the TREATED trial.
Let's put some numbers to this, for context.
18.3t/ac untreated, all marketable size
15.7t/ac treated yield. Less even tuber size, some unmarketable, but left in the trial to represent gross yield.
At approximately £160/t, that lost 2.6t/acre has cost me £416/acre. On top of about a tenner an acre for the AminoA Flo.
That's over a grand a hectare. Five hectares treated between these two fields.
I have to say the man behind the product has been less than helpful in offering explanation or solution.
Let's hope the other spud field and the beet trial shows something miraculous.
Of course!! How silly of me!
- Location
- Kenilworth
Perfect conditions for a Triton. Except it’s not December.
Wait for snow to achieve the full 15t/ha if I were you
l'ordinary bonville
Member
- Location
- N Yorks
This thread back up and running gives me that warm glowing feeling [emoji106]
All these "biostimulants" are rubbish. They don't have to declare whats in them, the amount of nutrient in them is too small to have an effect, and the manufacturers claims don't have to be repeatable. Why you guys still go into buying them beats me.
Well thank you for that pearl of wisdom, you ray of sunshine you!
Its your money.
Look if biostimulants had genuine sustainable advances companies like Yara etc would have bought them up years ago as a way of complementing their need to cart 600kg bags around the country. You won't get me denying a good biology can enhance soil fertility and the availability of soil nutrients but 1 litre of AminoA contains as far as I can tell 12% N in 1 litre bottle. The whole thing is a bloody joke - I feel like I'm the only f**ker standing up and pointing out what a load of nonsense it is