Lloydsplott
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Morning all. Just curious if people try and chit volunteer seeds before drilling of just let them grow naturally. If you do encourage a chit what do you use? Thanks.
As long as you've got a good spread of chaff and straw either plant a bit of cover crop or just leave it, what ever takes you fancyMorning all. Just curious if people try and chit volunteer seeds before drilling of just let them grow naturally. If you do encourage a chit what do you use? Thanks.
As long as you've got a good spread of chaff and straw either plant a bit of cover crop or just leave it, what ever takes you fancy
I've worn a good inch off my discs so probably irrelevant but the deepest of the middle holes.
Into chopped wheat straw, got into moisture at about inch and a half.
Really drying out round here now.
Mines coming, but it's very dry in places so not much happening there, snails are nibbling so doing a second sluxx application shortly.Does anyone have any rape coming through yet, mines been in 10 days now and there isn't much happening apart from plenty of slugs about, I seem to have just created the perfect home for them
Mines coming, but it's very dry in places so not much happening there, snails are nibbling so doing a second sluxx application shortly.
22nd August.how longs yours been in?
i think my problem was i drilled when ground was a little to wet and then rolled a little to late and slugs were already in the slot. we've had quite a bit of rain here and with combining so late it was a rush to get rape in
22nd August.
Not rolled, perhaps I should've.
What hit moisture is up, indeed most in less than a week.
What's left is needing today's moisture.
No flea beetle to talk of so far.
Could it be it didn't need rolling?Sounds like you've done well!
mine will hopefully surprise me
Could it be it didn't need rolling?
Or had it germinated before you rolled which could have damaged the shoot?
If it's been really wet with you, what's the soil temp like? Cold wet soil won't encourage growth.
How are weaving GD operators of trailed drills setting up the drill in firm ground like Lucerne?
I tried today and found because the discs swivel that the drill was dancing around like it was on marbles. We had penetration but the drill was tracking off something terrible even on very flat ground. It maybe how I have it set up but even with the back wheels touching the ground it didn't want to track properly. Up to now we have been getting on fine after normal crops but this certainly has me sratching my head.
Sorry didn't see your post to now. In the end the wheat came up pretty well after the Lucerne. Once I had the wheels touching at the back on the new style drill I didn't have trouble with it wandering. I thought it was going to be to shallow in places but being in the autumn we did get rain and although slow coming up the stand is about right.Interested to hear if you have any more thoughts on this. We are first year no-till with a new 3m gd on a used caddy. Having a lot of crabbing and drift even on the most gentle of slopes. Advised by weaving to try putting some weight on the caddy wheels and reducing the length of the colter rams to put the drill less “on its toes” but still not great. It had been very dry and we are on brashy soils with lots of small stone but it’s almost unmanageable. Luckily it was cover crop because I wouldn’t want cash crops drilled like that! Any thoughts greatly appreciated!