What % have you sown

[Will 1594]

Paid park keeper sounds a lot easier way to make a living than drilling in a season where the rain never stops !

If that’s what people want from Uk farmers and are prepared to pay for then why are we so resistant ?

Clive this is what they have been wanting since FMD ,
Grass all the heavy land ,and what was water or flood meadows ,bring the live stock more east ,instead of hauling feed west ,less pollution from these mega livestock farms in the wetter areas , plant it up with trees ,and keep the grassland it grazed lightly to keep the tourist areas tidy . convert all the old buildings to tourist accomadation ,ie ,scotland ,lakes dales ,etc , and they could farm tourists instead of amimals ,and just keep a few traditional stock .
Have the livestock where the feed is like they used to do hundreds of cattle came east to be finished ,
Use the muck to grow stuff in the bread basket ,veg growing areas , grass on the heavy blackgrass land ,

 

[Wheatonrotty]

Managed to get nearly 10 percent of our wheat in yesterday, the co6 decided it didn't want to play with the control box refusing to work, but we had a sky drill on demo and they were kind enough to finish the field. Only just dry enough, taking longer to dry where we haven't moved much compared to neighbours who have ploughed.
Frustrating but digging about looking at how the soil structure is improving I'm still happy that we're on the right track.

 

[Brisel]

hadnt noticed your post till id posted below yours . its neck and neck, ho ho, going for 10% tommorrow if no rain overnight

Did another 5 ha (2%) this morning then rained off for the foreseeable future, so you're probably streaking ahead now

 

[4course]

Did another 5 ha (2%) this morning then rained off for the foreseeable future, so you're probably streaking ahead now

not so, tried 1 field walked another 3 no go, just ploughed a headland with a view to combi drill it and its now raining against the forecast!!! so all stopped but maybe later if its only a bit of mizzle

 

[Hindsight]

Wheat bulb fly report attached. Higher levels than previous years on organic soils.

 

[JJT]

100% - just got last headland ploughed and drilled this morning.

 

[Brisel]

Managed to get nearly 10 percent of our wheat in yesterday, the co6 decided it didn't want to play with the control box refusing to work, but we had a sky drill on demo and they were kind enough to finish the field. Only just dry enough, taking longer to dry where we haven't moved much compared to neighbours who have ploughed.
Frustrating but digging about looking at how the soil structure is improving I'm still happy that we're on the right track.

What did you think of the Sky? Are they still using 4 degrees on the discs which makes the coulters move soil?

 

[Wheatonrotty]

What did you think of the Sky? Are they still using 4 degrees on the discs which makes the coulters move soil?

Impressed with the job it did in borderline conditions. I think the discs are at 3.5 degrees, Some of the field had had a light pass with the catros, some had nothing done since harvest. Where nothing had been done there was little disturbance, more where we had moved the top inch or so. It was in sticky clay so not surprised it was lifting it a bit. Had hoped to have the co going as well so we had a comparison but now waiting on a part from Germany.
It seems a well thought out drill that's had input from operators as well as engineers.

 

[snarling bee]

Did 75 acres yesterday, about 7%.
4mm rain today not helpful.

 

[phr49]

48% wheat in

 

[Wombat]

Still 0, would have gone by sat but looking at the forecast not to bother it’s 0 as I think it will be a lake by sat

 

[bobk]

20% , still in the shed .

 

[Honest john]

Weather is the winner here.

0% drilled.

 

[snipe]

Out of 500ac. 70ac osr ok for now but lots of cabbage root fly larvae. 20ac of wheat and 47ac of barley all drilled last two days. Might get another 100ac drill on some better land that will normally drill a couple of days after rain, but this will now need a week of good drying weather before it’s ok. Got some opencast land that might be ok in May!

 

[Billboy1]

November looks a bit drier generally for us [emoji102]

 

[Boysground]

Put 90 acres in on Wednesday so have made progress now. So about 60% of plan A wheat is planted problem being I think I am on plan D or E now. I have grass that won’t get planted and that ground will now be maize it’s ploughed and saturated. The 1 good thing is one of my worst BG fields was maize to be followed by wheat. It’s now got a grass ley in it, so some cheap BG control.
Managed to do some wheat after maize which helped catch up. Still have some WB to plant after that I think I will take it a field at a time and see what happens. Wheat on heavy (for me it’s a sticky alluvial silt) ground won’t get planted.

Fortunately I have the options of grass and maize to fill in the holes.


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[Mr Charisma]

My neighbour has ventured out and ploughed and combidrilled a 12 acre field of gravely land on Wed , it had 8 mm on it during the evening and know looks like a quagmire ?

 

[foxbox]

Nothing drilled here yet; conditions are challenging to say the least. No point in worrying about it I guess but no idea if it'll dry up enough anytime soon.

 

[nick...]

Had a wander round this morning and found seed that had germinated and had 10mm shoot on,drilled last Sunday.i was quite suprised as it’s so wet and cold.
Nick...

 

[lamb89]

90% of wheat in of which half was after grass. 0% of winter barley sown but we've deside to put spring in instead. Very little sown around us. Glad we've cut back the arable area now