Wheat seed rates
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
strawturner
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- Location
- East Midlands
Depending on TGW, drilling date, weed pressure anywhere from 175kg/ha/225kg/ha
Might do some winter barley next week but won't start wheat until the following I suspect
Might do some winter barley next week but won't start wheat until the following I suspect
Oh bullocks
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- Location
- Yorkshire
450 seeds 2nd week October
- Location
- Lincolnshire
250kg ish. If the forecast is right we won't be going for a fortnight.
- Location
- East yorks
Still got a load of discing to do, bloody weather
ollie989898
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Depends on conditions and the situation. If kind land with a good seed bed and its good hefty seed then Id be inclined to go a bit lower. That said seed is cheap and buys some insurance against birds and slugs. Mid September I always reckoned on 325 seeds and add a sniff per week after that.
ollie989898
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Next year place an order with a merchant by telling him the acreage and intended sowing rate in seeds/m2. He can then bag up and deliver the right amount (to the nearest 250kg) along with a piece of paper for the drill man telling him sowing rate in kg/ha once the TGW is known.
This is how I used to do it. Customer knew to drill the lot and avoided any confusion or calculatorisms.
- Location
- Berkshire
I’ll be around 400s/m for ( hopefully ) mid October drilling...
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
just for general interests sake - average sowing rates for wheat here would vary from around 35 - 60 kg / ha, depending on location, timing & variety. I generally plant at around 45 - 50 kg / ha, aiming for about 120 - 150 seeds / m2
on irrigation, rates around 100kg / ha are more common. But wheat is only a minor irrigation crop.
northern NSW, Australia
on irrigation, rates around 100kg / ha are more common. But wheat is only a minor irrigation crop.
northern NSW, Australia
We used to be down at around 100 to 140 kg, for early September drilling, it worked very well, until the blackgrass got out of control.
Now later drilling dictates more seed.
Crikey that’s 2cwt/acre in old money. Just shows the variation across country.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
that is 4 ha to a tonne of seed . . . wow
here's me thinking ( both as a farmer & a contractor with 30 yrs under my belt ) that anything over 100kg / ha was really killing any field operational efficiency. . .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'll crystal ball it and say forget the idea of a disc now. Another week of this.
- Location
- Wiltshire
Will start after 10th Oct. Depending on seedbed 325 seeds raising to 450 late November. It all depends on ground conditions after maize.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Can remember putting cordiale in at 100kg a hectare in the first few days of September. Was an early linseed harvest and we disced it a couple of times and drilled straight away.
- Location
- East yorks
I have no other way to drill so will just have to wait, pouring down this morning . There is always some clown asking for rain
I will probably start at 275kg/ha if we don’t get going for 2 weeks
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
so far not one person above has mentioned or taken into account the germination% of the seed they intend to sow . bearing in mind that the pass result for certified seed is only 85% you could if you knew it vary your seed rate up or down by as much if not more than any allowance for tgw
- Location
- Berkshire
Germination and tgw all allowed for here, mines all Fss, tested and allowed for.