Wheat drilling 2020

[DRC]

Started this afternoon . Early for me, as usually waiting for maize or spuds but had some OSR this year, so it’s a first wheat. Everyone locally is at it .
Heavy land has ploughed over lovely .
Nice end to the day , looking towards Llangollen .

 

[ajd132]

Started this afternoon . Early for me, as usually waiting for maize or spuds but had some OSR this year, so it’s a first wheat. Everyone locally is at it .
Heavy land has ploughed over lovely .
Nice end to the day , looking towards Llangollen .

That doesn’t look very heavy

 

[bobk]

Its ploughing over lovely here with a nice bit of moisture. Plan is to plough another 50 acre for barley and then 40 acres continuous wheat on heavy land that should keep me occupied next week and stop me drilling until after next weekend

Could you plough mine like that pls ?

 

[Will 1594]

That doesn’t look very heavy

Do you have a black cat

 

[DRC]

That doesn’t look very heavy

Believe me it has plenty of horrible stuff in it, especially on headlands. It’s all glacial moraine, so had a bit of everything including boulders that need the loader to shift . It’s come over nice this year though.

 

[bobk]

Started this afternoon . Early for me, as usually waiting for maize or spuds but had some OSR this year, so it’s a first wheat. Everyone locally is at it .
Heavy land has ploughed over lovely .
Nice end to the day , looking towards Llangollen .

You bottled it then .

 

[ajd132]

Believe me it has plenty of horrible stuff in it, especially on headlands. It’s all glacial moraine, so had a bit of everything including boulders that need the loader to shift . It’s come over nice this year though.

It looks very well

 

[DRC]

It looks very well

A year of OSR has suited it.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Well there are a few out now 'placing their bets'. Time will tell. When the roulette wheel comes to a halt sometime in November, or possibly March when the redrill glyphosate goes on, or possibly May when the BYDV / Take All shows up we will know better who judged the autumn 2020 drilling season correctly. What fun. Black 8 for me.

or in March / April when those who drilled are sitting relaxed ( I was going to say skiing but Corvus will stop that!) and others are panicking and scratching round for spring seed varieties as a salvage job

 

[Flat 10]

Majority of the wheat is now in and rolled! Chitted and on it's way up! Beans next....

Where are you? And what soil type. Can’t believe how keen everyone is. I remember drilling in 2004 late September, stayed dry and patchy emergence in late October . To say nothing of the BG which clearly none of you have if you are drilling now(and I appreciate there are those that don’t but it seems incomprehensible here)

 

[MrNoo]

Its ploughing over lovely here with a nice bit of moisture. Plan is to plough another 50 acre for barley and then 40 acres continuous wheat on heavy land that should keep me occupied next week and stop me drilling until after next weekend

I am always very envious whenever you post pictures of your soil, heavy land, does it even exist with you? Green and Yellow clay type heavy land or just a decent medium loam??

 

[yellow belly]

Here I aim to be 100% drilled by end of September With a full stack ifthe weather looks dry
1 in4 years October planting is a waste of the wheat slot and much higher black grass In June Even with a full stack


very little bg on land destined for wheat most has been double spring crops
the only wheat planted in 2019 was before 23 september

 

[4course]

So dry. Won't consider going into such dry seedbeds.

been out and about today and there are ploughed fields that shouldnt have been left to dry out ,scratched top worked or whatever folks call it that shouldnt have been sown, its dry and early, rightly or wrongly im waiting whilst getting on with other jobs until we can sow into moisture and make a seedbed that isnt going to cost a fortune to make , history shows our best i.e most profitable autumn sown crops come from the sowings last week of sept-2nd week oct and that despite last years glich.

 

[HarryB97]

I'm aiming for around 3 weeks time give or take, terrible winter bean crop here absolutley full of blackgrass and rubbish so need to try and make a dent in the huge weed burden first. It's just had it's 3rd shallow disc and roll so will hopefully green up well again! I'm not worried about another wet autumn, extreme weather very rarley comes two years in a row.

 

[Renaultman]

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Here I aim to be 100% drilled by end of September With a full stack ifthe weather looks dry
1 in4 years October planting is a waste of the wheat slot and much higher black grass In June Even with a full stack


very little bg on land destined for wheat most has been double spring crops
the only wheat planted in 2019 was before 23 september

If I had had any sense I would have done the same.
Different problems here though, mainly rye grass and a good, well established, thick crop seems more effective than getting a chit and late drilling. Spring drilling doesn't seem to help at all but maybe I'm doing something wrong

 

[robbie]

I am always very envious whenever you post pictures of your soil, heavy land, does it even exist with you? Green and Yellow clay type heavy land or just a decent medium loam??

Decent medium loam I suppose, theres no green or yellow clay around here.

Ps I say heavy but we dont own a power harrow so that says it all really.

 

[The Arable Farmer]

Where are you? And what soil type. Can’t believe how keen everyone is. I remember drilling in 2004 late September, stayed dry and patchy emergence in late October ☹. To say nothing of the BG which clearly none of you have if you are drilling now(and I appreciate there are those that don’t but it seems incomprehensible here)

Buckinghamshire on proper heavy clay, all was fallow as undrilled last year due to wet so have had plenty of BG kills and loads of moisture underneath. Didn't want to potentially miss another year and had old seed to use. Surprised at how quick its moving! Corn wont grow in the bag!!

 

[teslacoils]

been out and about today and there are ploughed fields that shouldnt have been left to dry out ,scratched top worked or whatever folks call it that shouldnt have been sown, its dry and early, rightly or wrongly im waiting whilst getting on with other jobs until we can sow into moisture and make a seedbed that isnt going to cost a fortune to make , history shows our best i.e most profitable autumn sown crops come from the sowings last week of sept-2nd week oct and that despite last years glich.

I've chased, if that's the word, myself with the rolls this summer. We can't let it dry out, and we can't be waiting until November. Needs 4 weeks after moving for a chit. Very cheap seedbed. No tilth. Needed moving.

 

[teslacoils]

Heavy land, like last year, is busting ploughs it's so hard.

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

I've chased, if that's the word, myself with the rolls this summer. We can't let it dry out, and we can't be waiting until November. Needs 4 weeks after moving for a chit. Very cheap seedbed. No tilth. Needed moving.

Are you managing to pull the rolls ok?