Winter bean drilling depth

Roy_H

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You've got some really top notch reliable sources there I see

I might ask God tonight during my bedtime prayers for his prediction
Tabloids? I well remember t'other year The Daily Express predicting an extremely hard winter . Temps down to 20 below, deep snow etc. etc. The subsequent winter was one of the mildest on record!
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
Temps down to 20 below, deep snow etc. etc.

Were we to actually get to 20 below, Roy_H, deep snow would be an advantage.

Even in 1963, everything was fine until it all blew off.

In much more recent years here, we've lost winter beans, winter linseed and winter oats to frost and I was interested to find out whether anyone else had experience of winter bean drilling depth being a factor.
 

Roy_H

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Were we to actually get to 20 below, Roy_H, deep snow would be an advantage.

Even in 1963, everything was fine until it all blew off.

In much more recent years here, we've lost winter beans, winter linseed and winter oats to frost and I was interested to find out whether anyone else had experience of winter bean drilling depth being a factor.
The worst one l can remember when we were farming was 1979/80 but we didn't grow W beans then. We did later on though but we ploughed them down ( Which seems to be out of fashion nowadays).
 

Badshot

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Location
Kent
I've just planted mine. Into min tilled ground, very shallow movement. Managed about 3-4 inches into dust. I hope I'll get three weeks before I see them now the weathers cooling off a bit.
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
My first beans have been through for about 10 days now. Surprising how fast they are motoring!
When we last had some this early (as part of a drilling-date experiment done in Oct/Nov 2007) Steevo, they were six feet tall by Easter and up to the wiper motor by harvest.

But rather too few pods.

:banghead:
 

Andrew K

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
Finished ours with the Hybrid last week.I have found that using worn front breaker tines helps stop the bean dropping to the very bottom of the slot, thus keeping it out of the wet when soil is wet and smeared. Still go in 5"deep though!
 

Devon James

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Location
Devon
Finished ours with the Hybrid last week.I have found that using worn front breaker tines helps stop the bean dropping to the very bottom of the slot, thus keeping it out of the wet when soil is wet and smeared. Still go in 5"deep though!
That's good, as me front legs are worn out!
 

bankrupt

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Location
EX17/20
First bean up, from about 3 inches.

Rest should follow in the next 10-20 days.

As usual, the Weaving's main fault is that it sows in too high a vertical band.

With beans that always means some a bit too shallow, and with cereals some on the surface.

:banghead:
 

kamloops

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Location
Kent
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I'm still putting beans in with this as we have been for 15ish years on and off. Depth and slot closing not generally an issue. Disturbance is of course unfashionably high although there is little inversion.
Michael - what depth are you hitting with that setup? And what realistic average yield are you achieving? We achieved 5t/ha this year in one field and I was amazed at the difference it made to the gross margin from 4t/ha (previous average).
I will be using a weaving GD this autumn for winter bean establishment, deepest setting but probably only 3/4 inches. maybe thats deep enough anyway?!
 

Michael S

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Arable Farmer
Location
Matching Green
Michael - what depth are you hitting with that setup? And what realistic average yield are you achieving? We achieved 5t/ha this year in one field and I was amazed at the difference it made to the gross margin from 4t/ha (previous average).
I will be using a weaving GD this autumn for winter bean establishment, deepest setting but probably only 3/4 inches. maybe thats deep enough anyway?!

We can put them as deep as we can pull it but usually go about 6-8 inches. Yields I've no idea but high enough my brother-in-law won't tell me for fear of getting a bigger bill, normally he wants to tell me how poorly his farm yields.

Michael
 

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