Wheat seed rates 2023

[Pottersfarm]

Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has broken them down nicely. Thousand grain weight is 48 and I’m thinking 180kg which is about 400 seeds per square metre.
Then for our November direct drilled stuff I’m thinking of upping it to 500 seeds which is 240kg/ha. Where’s everybody else at? Got slug traps out and we’ve zero pressure but we don’t grow osr.

 

[teslacoils]

My seed was delivered today at 47g TSW, so I shall be aiming to start at around 200kg. Would be nice to plant some later next week.

 

[Andy12345]

Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has broken them down nicely. Thousand grain weight is 48 and I’m thinking 180kg which is about 400 seeds per square metre.
Then for our November direct drilled stuff I’m thinking of upping it to 500 seeds which is 240kg/ha. Where’s everybody else at? Got slug traps out and we’ve zero pressure but we don’t grow osr.

Whats the germination like? Down here in the south west end of Sept I'd be more on the 350 side but that would also be dependent on variety and tillering ability.

 

[ollie989898]

End of September I would probably go at 350 seeds, less if I was optimistic with seed bed, etc. Depends on your dirt and the variety a bit, too. End of October you can go at 400 seeds and beyond as it gets later.

 

[chipchap]

Planting now after osr and spring oats at about 220 seeds per sq m.

will up it a bit on thinner soils in a day or two.

I’m stingy, anybody who knows me will agree.

 

[Andy12345]

Planting now after osr and spring oats at about 220 seeds per sq m.

will up it a bit on thinner soils in a day or two.

I’m stingy, anybody who knows me will agree.

If you can get some N on in mid Feb I'd go with that drilling rate

 

[PSQ]

Variable rate here, average 215kg/ha with a base rate of 185 and max 240 kg on the bits that routinely look crap on an NDVI. Plan was derived from a 2016 NDVI 'fertiliser' map, same map we've used for 8 years.
Dawsum @50g tgw, variable rate, sown on the 7th September was lowered by 10% due to tgw and another 10% due to earliness and overly lush crops going flat this year.
Extase 2nd and 3rd wheats @58g, same map, left to run at 100% on the control box. Finished pre-ems this afternoon.

 

[bobk]

Variable rate here, average 215kg/ha with a base rate of 185 and max 240 kg on the bits that routinely look crap on an NDVI. Plan was derived from a 2016 NDVI 'fertiliser' map, same map we've used for 8 years.
Dawsum @50g tgw, variable rate, sown on the 7th September was lowered by 10% due to tgw and another 10% due to earliness and overly lush crops going flat this year.
Extase 2nd and 3rd wheats @58g, same map, left to run at 100% on the control box. Finished pre-ems this afternoon.

wtf

 

[Woody j]

Simple way to work out seed rate

 

[warksfarmer]

sown on the 7th September

S**t the bed . Clearly don’t have any grass weeds to deal with?

 

[Wombat]

Planting now after osr and spring oats at about 220 seeds per sq m.

will up it a bit on thinner soils in a day or two.

I’m stingy, anybody who knows me will agree.

That wouldn’t even feed the slugs here

 

[stroller]

12 stone/acre increase by half a stone each week after 5th October.

 

[bobk]

12 stone/acre increase by half a stone each week after 5th October.

It's still very warm

 

[Woody j]

12 stone/acre increase by half a stone each week after 5th October.

Over here in Ireland we would usually start at 10st acre , we don’t like lodged crops come harvest!

 

[redsloe]

I use this app.

Seed rate calculator - conversion tool | AHDB

ahdb.org.uk

 

[Steevo]

I think I’d be going higher than many on here.

Minimum 250kg from 1st Oct, adding 25kg a week or so.

Seed is a very cheap input compared to many.

 

[Wombat]

I think I’d be going higher than many on here.

Minimum 250kg from 1st Oct, adding 25kg a week or so.

Seed is a very cheap input compared to many.

Snap

 

[redsloe]

I think I’d be going higher than many on here.

Minimum 250kg from 1st Oct, adding 25kg a week or so.

Seed is a very cheap input compared to many.

I like to agree about the seed costs but my tgw are pretty low and would be 500 seeds/m.
Early Oct and temps of 18 degrees I would expect good germination.

Hss standard rate of 200kgs/ha.

 

[Woody j]

I think I’d be going higher than many on here.

Minimum 250kg from 1st Oct, adding 25kg a week or so.

Seed is a very cheap input compared to many.

16 st acre do u really need that amount? Do you not have problems with crops getting to thick and going down later on?

 

[alomy75]

Direct drilling; start at 220kg and finish at 240 or even 250 if conditions are bad. Unless sample is perfectly mixed and your 1000 grains are 100% representative; TGW is pretty pointless imo.