Wheat drilling

Wombat

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BASIS
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East yorks
This is 7 days so I defo won't be adding roundup, about 32mm deep.

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surely it all depends on how close the crop is to emerging and the temperatures. I don't think you can put a blanket statement on that as it is very situational.
I have done roundup the day before it was up and showing in the rows just before it is up the coleoptile is rup resistant once the leaf breaks through the coleoptile it is susceptible
going to the wire is needed as bg is quicker to be susceptible at 5 days from germintation if on the surface
 

Tractor Boy

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Location
Suffolk
surely it all depends on how close the crop is to emerging and the temperatures. I don't think you can put a blanket statement on that as it is very situational.
Sorry. I entirely agree. I’ve just been looking at my wheat and sure enough it’s starting to show through at 7-8 days after drilling even where drilled about 37-40mm deep. I’ve never known it through the ground as quickly!
 

Tractor Boy

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Location
Suffolk
I have done roundup the day before it was up and showing in the rows just before it is up the coleoptile is rup resistant once the leaf breaks through the coleoptile it is susceptible
going to the wire is needed as bg is quicker to be susceptible at 5 days from germintation if on the surface
I hope you are right as I’ve never known wheat to come through as quickly as mine this year. Some I sprayed around 7 days after drilling and I’ve now realised some plants are through after barely 8 days.
 
drilling wheat again to day notill into wheat stubble soil dried out well even though it only started drying from the sky yesterday
but last Monday when we dug down the soil was dry at a foot down on both unmoved land and cultivated land next door
the soil will absorb a lot of the rain we had last week end
no drains running here on 2018 cropped land
 

ZXR17

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Location
South Dorset
I used to be on chalk up in Hampshire , an inch of rain was nothing to worry about .
An inch of rain now will stop the drill for a week .
100 acres left to drill now. 40 should drill early next week after a good dose of glyphosate . The remainder has bg which finally has started to emerge so I plan to leave it as long as I dare , hopefully about another ten days if the forecast is correct.
 

simmy_bull

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Location
North Yorkshire
Thing was if you were making good profits the concept of borrowing was maybe not so normal for the average farmer as it is today !

In fact in profitable times high interest rates would be great for all that cash you had stashed in the bank !
Anybody remember what the typical interest paid to you would of been for a current account in those days of exceptional high interest rates?
 

T Hectares

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Arable Farmer
Location
Berkshire
I used to be on chalk up in Hampshire , an inch of rain was nothing to worry about .
An inch of rain now will stop the drill for a week .
100 acres left to drill now. 40 should drill early next week after a good dose of glyphosate . The remainder has bg which finally has started to emerge so I plan to leave it as long as I dare , hopefully about another ten days if the forecast is correct.
Next rain forecast for the 30th here, going to do the same with my worst bg field...
 

chaffcutter

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Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
Never had interest on current accounts back then, if we were in the Black for a while used to transfer cash into a deposit account. Lot of people used to have a sweep set up.carrying a set balance in the trading account, the bank automatically moved surplus into deposit or back every night.

. Pal of mine had this for years, then one day had a call to say he was overdrawn (although he knew there was money in the deposit account) and the bank had stopped doing the sweep without telling anybody!!
 

fudge

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire.
I used to be on chalk up in Hampshire , an inch of rain was nothing to worry about .
An inch of rain now will stop the drill for a week .
100 acres left to drill now. 40 should drill early next week after a good dose of glyphosate . The remainder has bg which finally has started to emerge so I plan to leave it as long as I dare , hopefully about another ten days if the forecast is correct.
I am doing mine next week. Conditions ideal ATM.
 

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