Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
I always envy those who can plough and follow with a combi drill
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- Thread starter wellingtonfarmer
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I always envy those who can plough and follow with a combi drill
Yes. When I retire, I aspire to have 100ac of land that I can plough, and drill with one of those minimat press drills, with spring barley on Boxing Day to avoid the in-laws. 4 x 25ac fields with yard and house in the middle. Somewhere towards the centre of France.
- Location
- Darlington
I'm thinking the coast in Brittany, somewhere around Quimper.
Would sooner have your land than structure less dust This had subsoiler up tatie beds then raven with coil He does not call it cactus country for nowt full of flint and needs water on barley last year in April to keep it alive
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- the brecks norfolk
Well said @Will 1594.
I'm like you I envy medium/heavy land farmers yes our ground is good for in law avoidance over the Xmas holidays but can be cruel to you when you see beautiful crops of wheat and barley withering away In April,may and June.
I know heavy land can be a pig to work with but from my experience if your able to get a crop established then your pretty much guaranteed a crop come harvest.
An elderly farmer once told me that this land around here "needs a shower of rain everyday and a shower of sh!t on Sundays" and he's right.
I'm like you I envy medium/heavy land farmers yes our ground is good for in law avoidance over the Xmas holidays but can be cruel to you when you see beautiful crops of wheat and barley withering away In April,may and June.
I know heavy land can be a pig to work with but from my experience if your able to get a crop established then your pretty much guaranteed a crop come harvest.
An elderly farmer once told me that this land around here "needs a shower of rain everyday and a shower of sh!t on Sundays" and he's right.
I envy those that can plough and get a crop in within the same year!
Mr Charisma
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- stratford on Avon
Went and borrowed a couple cans of glyphosate from a friend yesterday who farms some proper nasty stuff , he head hoped to try some more DDing this year but knew that wasn't going to happen 2 or 3 weeks ago ,,,, trio was the next to bite the dust and that's been parked up for a couple of weeks and yesterday he was pondering how to carry on ploughing having mullered his good awfull stuff and now left with his awfull awfull stuff ,,,,,, and then we wake up to 15 mm in the rain gauge , it will be a long drilling campaign for him . As for me I'm so glad I don't have his awfull clays and I farm some fairly decent stuff , triod seed beds are in good nick and should soon dry out ,,,,,, question is , do I leave the vaddy in the shed and go straight to the weaving ?????
Land after OSR, and even after wheat were we got in early is going to be fine. State of the land after cutting some linseed yesterday, and other land that has had straw sat on it for a month is more concerning. Still, we took on some of the foulest land in the area in 2007/8 and it rained from 1st September to 1st October - was soloed on the frost with power harrow and freeflow behind and still grew a crop. Likewise we are three weeks ahead of when we cut the barsteward beans last year and that wheat grew enough to keep the wolf from the door. Considering getting hold of some winter bean seed and getting it ploughed in after this linseed now.
limestone brash
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Why can't anyone plough and follow with a PH combination ??
I think his land is so heavy that it ploughs up horses' heads & takes more than one pass to make a seedbed out of it
- Location
- East yorks
I think his land is so heavy that it ploughs up horses' heads & takes more than one pass to make a seedbed out of it
Ha yup we have some that would take 3 , which is why I only play in the top 2 inches of soil and leave the horses to decompose
limestone brash
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can be done in heavy land if ploughing only 5" deep with 12" furrows
combi needs to be close behind plough so baking of clods
good roll or two afterwards - looks cloddy but grows fine if at least 250kg of seed is used
combi needs to be close behind plough so baking of clods
good roll or two afterwards - looks cloddy but grows fine if at least 250kg of seed is used
- Location
- Durham, UK
Because 1 pass with the combi is not enough no matter how slowly you go. Iv one field 28 acre that i can combi straight in and its bliss. Some land needs 3 passes with the ph.
- Location
- Leicestershire
If you you think you can do that on heavy land - it's NOT heavy land!!
Plough in August & press well, overwinter the land. Disc a couple of times in the spring, then roll. Let it weather some more, then spring tine, then roll, then let the weather at it for a couple more months, then drill Rape....it was ridiculous in those days, even with fallow.
Glad those days are gone.
Glad those days are gone.
Plan is not to plough and go straight in with the quadtill but rain and waiting for sludge has put cultivations back on some heavy land and a further 25mm of rain today means there is no way you will plough and drill behind, in an ideal world everything would be worked in august but this not always possible
The problem with being a one man band with one main tractor is swapping around from plough to combi drill with press on front, so I've gone and ploughed all my heavy stuff, rather than two or three fields then drill those fields and repeat. I've also ploughed the headlands, which might turn out together a mistake.
The thing is though, how do you mind tillers make it work, as I have bought a set of discs this year, with the idea of not ploughing everything. The three fields I disced are, A now needing glyphosate, and B a wet pudding that will probably need ploughing now and following with the combi, so have I wasted my money or will the discs come into their own in a dry time?
I also thought I might disc after maize on the lighter land, but agronomist says plough because of fusarium risk, so how do you mind tillers make it work?
The thing is though, how do you mind tillers make it work, as I have bought a set of discs this year, with the idea of not ploughing everything. The three fields I disced are, A now needing glyphosate, and B a wet pudding that will probably need ploughing now and following with the combi, so have I wasted my money or will the discs come into their own in a dry time?
I also thought I might disc after maize on the lighter land, but agronomist says plough because of fusarium risk, so how do you mind tillers make it work?