If we drill early sept. BYDV can have a big impact on yield and if left to late can get caught out with weather, very hard to know when to drill
why not try bydv resistant varieties ?
If we drill early sept. BYDV can have a big impact on yield and if left to late can get caught out with weather, very hard to know when to drill
Only the other day I heard that one of the UK's big used machinery dealers (that 'the trade' use to lay off their trade ins with) has been offered a hell of lot of direct drills...
They are a relatively new introduction Clive. That disease prone one from two years ago and now Grouse. More coming along but not quite yet. And without checking Grouse the other one was not resistant if I recall but tolerant. Think the Winter Barleys same, though do please correct me if I an wrong. Wolverine. Remember now.why not try bydv resistant varieties ?
May not suit the narrative, but I routinely get better crops where I plough. The one thing about narrratives, is that they arre driven by the actual narrator. And that narrator is subject to change. With reduction in decent actives, and poorly paying break crops, SFI was in a good place to offer alternative paying crops to replace beans, osr etc.If that’s true then it will be people using the new grant to buy new direct drills so getting rid of what they’ve already got.
If the future of U.K. cropping is ploughing then it has no future. Irrelevant of the cost of doing that and subsequent passes to establish a crop, it doesn’t suit the current narrative to reduce carbon.
The current narrative is bolloxIf that’s true then it will be people using the new grant to buy new direct drills so getting rid of what they’ve already got.
If the future of U.K. cropping is ploughing then it has no future. Irrelevant of the cost of doing that and subsequent passes to establish a crop, it doesn’t suit the current narrative to reduce carbon.
I think it will here, I won't know for sure till harvest, but I am very happy with how it looks so far.The current narrative is bollox
DD doesnt work in a wet year
Neither does anything else in a wet yearThe current narrative is bollox
DD doesnt work in a wet year
Sowed wheat behind the plough on nov 29 in a blizzardNeither does anything else in a wet year
This ploughed field for second wheat worked, picture taken today in the sunshine.Neither does anything else in a wet year
Best field locally was sown with a rapid.Sowed wheat behind the plough on nov 29 in a blizzard
Now looking good
No chance with DD
Locally I can show you failed everything. The establishment has little bearing more the date, sept everything worked. October on, lotteryThis ploughed field for second wheat worked, picture taken today in the sunshine.
Yes I’m lucky to have Cotswold brash, but we do burn out quick. That is skyfall planted about 17th October.Locally I can show you failed everything
Lads landSowed wheat behind the plough on nov 29 in a blizzard
Now looking good
No chance with DDView attachment 1166408
I was soaking on top, ruts from muckspreader too. Snow at night.Best field locally was sown with a rapid.
Wasn’t that wet if you were drilling in Nov
Grows better planted with lights on?Sowed wheat behind the plough on nov 29 in a blizzard
Now looking good
No chance with DDView attachment 1166408
Is the aim to produce a profitable crop or to fit in with the narrative?If that’s true then it will be people using the new grant to buy new direct drills so getting rid of what they’ve already got.
If the future of U.K. cropping is ploughing then it has no future. Irrelevant of the cost of doing that and subsequent passes to establish a crop, it doesn’t suit the current narrative to reduce carbon.
Exactly thats why i don;t think there is a right or wrong way to establish a crop. They all work and they all fail.Is the aim to produce a profitable crop or to fit in with the narrative?
TBH I couldn't give two hoots for the narrative, I will do what I think is best. If I get that wrong my business will suffer no matter what the narrative. (ignoring the fact that the current narrative is to get rid of farmers anyway)
Last bit should yield a bumper then!!Grows better planted with lights on?
Think what you could have had with two beacons flashing too.
Aye, all round here is shyte. The best looking stuff was ploughed, dragged level, spun on and power harrowed in. There are some real, real shockers here.Exactly thats why i don;t think there is a right or wrong way to establish a crop. They all work and they all fail.
Eh noLads land