- Location
- North West
Exactly, can’t see there being an issue as long as it goes in behind the combine.
I’m less than 10 miles from Olly so if he can get it to harvest before Christmas I’m sure I can get enough to feed the birds.
What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed
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I’m less than 10 miles from Olly so if he can get it to harvest before Christmas I’m sure I can get enough to feed the birds.
I agree it's within the rules and in some areas of the country and on some soils it might well work.
- Location
- Darlington
Still waiting for the bulk of my wheat treated with Luxinm Plus to emerge 
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Well Luxinum with Crystal did a lovely job on the blackgrass last autumn here, thankfully. Had enough of BG last year.
Anybody want any Stomp Aqua? (plan was to put it on with Liberator as a follow up)
Anybody want any Stomp Aqua? (plan was to put it on with Liberator as a follow up)
Best plus here from Direct Drilling this time is that it's definitively shown up exactly which bits of our eclectic mix of clays and shales are suitable for it and which are not.
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- Location
- South Devon
......for this particular season
Flintstone
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- Location
- Berkshire
I’m a bit of a direct drilling convert, and I do hope that lots of people don’t give up on DD in their first/second year of it due to how their crops look this season. It really isn’t the system’s fault.
No matter what establishment method has been used this year, it has been unprecedented in terms of rain.
Stubbles drain so much better than soil that’s even been slightly cultivated, no matter what soil type.
No matter what establishment method has been used this year, it has been unprecedented in terms of rain.
Stubbles drain so much better than soil that’s even been slightly cultivated, no matter what soil type.
- Location
- South Devon
We don't do it yet but i'd like to, only just started ditching the plough at the moment. Its all very wellsaying don't judge dd on this year but seasons like this are very likely to be more frequent in the future and it has to be able to work in all conditions
Flintstone
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- Location
- Berkshire
To be fair, there’s no system that will be guaranteed to work with daily rainfall like we’ve all had since November.
The opportunities to get on drilling have been largely dictated by soil type, and the length of ‘dry window’ needed before different soils have been able to drill. Sometimes only need five dry days before they can get on, and others need two weeks plus.
All I was saying was that undisturbed stubbles do, without a doubt, make those ‘draining times’ shorter, therefore increasing the opportunities to drill during a problematic winter/spring like this.
The opportunities to get on drilling have been largely dictated by soil type, and the length of ‘dry window’ needed before different soils have been able to drill. Sometimes only need five dry days before they can get on, and others need two weeks plus.
All I was saying was that undisturbed stubbles do, without a doubt, make those ‘draining times’ shorter, therefore increasing the opportunities to drill during a problematic winter/spring like this.
True on our shales but not on our clays.
- Location
- East yorks
I would say clays need a little bit of movement. I have been though everything once with our sabre to create some tilth last week and help it dry and will hopefully drill some today. Even on the lighter soils I learnt the sabre just slots in damper years
Could you have a demonstration of a triton, seed drill they won't be far from you?
similar situation with some locally. Know of one that has had two failed attempts of winters cereal DD in some fields this year and still planning on a third attempt, if it ever dries up, with a spring barley
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I have a field of Palladium. Went dreadfully yellow 3 or 4 weeks ago then grew green again, I assumed it was because of a late fertiliser application. It appears to be going off again.
Have you noticed similar? Other varieties are fine.
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
my soils must be unique .
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Rule one of notill
In autumn
Notill drill 2 weeks earlier
in spring drill 2 weeks later
In the autumn you need to be impatient
In spring you need to have a lot of patience
most farmers cannot do both until they have learned from experience
the heavier the land the more the impatience in the autumn
But the greater patience in the spring
In autumn
Notill drill 2 weeks earlier
in spring drill 2 weeks later
In the autumn you need to be impatient
In spring you need to have a lot of patience
most farmers cannot do both until they have learned from experience
the heavier the land the more the impatience in the autumn
But the greater patience in the spring
Direct Drilling, and particularly Disc Zero Til, is totally unforgiving where there is a drainage issue....Which *appears* to be the case in that picture....Noting further that clays are again, less forgiving than more freely draining land at suffering from drainage issues.
Cultivations will hide and temporarily (Usually for only a season) overcome a minor drainage issue on clays, and longer on more freely draining soils. This is one of the principle reasons that people come to the conclusion that particularly disc Zero Til wont work on some soil types.
This is the same field of Palladium today.
It also went very yellow at about the same time as yours.
It's had 70kg of N so far (Yara Axan) and now needs it's 2nd dose, it responded quickly to the Nitrogen and has kept its colour.
Fairly soon after I put the N on it rained yet again, and I was a little worried about having done the right thing.
I think that I will put about 90kg N on in the 2nd dose and then assess again on what total rate to give it
The other Palladium fields are the same
