Wide spacing cereal crops... pictures please

[Flatlander]

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33cm wheat on a headland. Think I'd be happy to do a whole field like this in future, rather than cross drill it at half rate again. Will see if it yields noticeably less than the rest of the field though.

Strong looking wheat. I’d think you’d be better with those width rows for disease. I’m on 7 inch rows and notice more disease than my neighbours on 10 inch.

 

[ollie989898]

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33cm wheat on a headland. Think I'd be happy to do a whole field like this in future, rather than cross drill it at half rate again. Will see if it yields noticeably less than the rest of the field though.

It'll be fine.

 

[alomy75]

DD spring wheat and spring beans after having LD subsoiler in the autumn

 

[unlacedgecko]

Mixed species cover crop grazed with sheep. Living residual then DD with wide row spring barley.

Cover crop terminated with glypho pre em.

 

[unlacedgecko]

From the same farm, spring barley

I might be remembering wrong, but I think this is spring wheat? Both these fields are DD into living cover crop residual following sheep grazing.

From conversation with the LL, wide spacing has reduced seed/ha, and will allow use of inter-row hoe for BG control of necessary.

Wide spaced rape drilled with a mixed species companion crop. As an experiment, some fields have the companion crop terminated with a herbicide and some haven't. This one has. The ones that haven't, the rape has outcompeted everything but the phacellia, which is now flowering. Possibility to dress out phacellia seed post combining?

LL reports that these changes (along with others in a similar holistic/regen vein) have reduced N by 30% in past 2 years. Fuel use/ha is similarly down. Turnover has reduced but profits have increased.

Very exciting to work with such forward thinking individuals.

 

[martian]

Phacelia seed is like dust, very easy to dress out. We had some crimson clover seed in with our rape as well. Rape cleaned up lovely, but didn't have good enough sieves to dress these small seeds out from rape dust etc, would have been nice cheap for cover crops.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Phacelia seed is like dust, very easy to dress out. We had some crimson clover seed in with our rape as well. Rape cleaned up lovely, but didn't have good enough sieves to dress these small seeds out from rape dust etc, would have been nice cheap for cover crops.

I believe that's the plan.

 

[Tractormonkey]

Wide spacing wheat drilled with a Horsch Sprinter 4st. 28.6cm spacing with 2" open backed dutch openers (from APM). When I was deciding which drill/coulters to go with I was struggling to find many pictures with row spacing wider than 25cm so hopefully this helps someone!

Direct drilled into OSR stubble:

Direct drilled into bean stubble (double row in the middle and gaps on side due to GPS being off):

Drilled into prepared seedbed, running Bourgault 4" split row coulters on the outside of the drill (can be seen in the middle here):

 

[TelesnaAg]

Not specifically at the moment, I'm looking to make the move from a plough/min till system to no-till, my current drill is on 12.5cm spacing but if looking at drills like the horsch sprinter/CO they are 25cm, I currently grow winter barley and my concern with wide spacing is heads ending up on the floor if the crop brackles.

I have considered band sowing but the aim is to move less soil going forward which would mean looking for a drill on a single narrow opener

If going min til whats issue with moving dirt? Weeds or other concern.

Ant...

 

[DieselRob]

If going min til whats issue with moving dirt? Weeds or other concern.

Ant...

I was moving away from ploughing and min till. I’ve made the move now to no-till using a tine drill on 166mm spacing, very happy with the results.

 

[TelesnaAg]

I was moving away from ploughing and min till. I’ve made the move now to no-till using a tine drill on 166mm spacing, very happy with the results.

Carbon will only release out of the spoil if the soil is warmer than atmosphere by some margin. Carbon is 1.5 times heavier than air at 25 degrees.

Ant...