Zero drilling peas with JD750A.?
- Thread starter Pilatus
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- Location
- Essex Coast
so can you direct drill peas and do they still lodge as bad as conventional till?
- Location
- Snodland kent
Put some Daytona in last spring using Horsch C04 straight into cover crop of barley and wheat and also Topdown cultivated soil, saw no difference, also had some drilled with a 750a again no difference in establishment and yield,
Will be drilling tomorrow with Horsch straight into wheat stubble and also having a sumo DTS demo
Will be drilling tomorrow with Horsch straight into wheat stubble and also having a sumo DTS demo
Grew a cracking looking crop of 750a drilled peas last year.
Only problem was we were busy combining milling wheat & they only really came ready just before a wet 10 days hit during harvest...
By the time we got there I swear someone had flat rolled in between every tramline....
Only problem was we were busy combining milling wheat & they only really came ready just before a wet 10 days hit during harvest...
By the time we got there I swear someone had flat rolled in between every tramline....
fertility issues?
10 days wet weather when fit was the problem
JNG
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- Location
- Leinster, Ireland
Were they drilled into stubble or was there some form of cover?
- Location
- Essex Coast
I suggested to a neighbour he'd be better off DD'd his peas in today, the ground has set like concrete and won't come up nice if he cultivates it. Told him to get another neighbour in with a weaving big disc, don't think he will though.
Peaola is the solution to flat Peas - easy combining, this crop was 750a into cover
so what do you do with it next clean the osr out? And did they ripen together?or with chemical help?and what was the cover crop
clean it out - not hard to separate rape from peas, careful variety choice gets ripening within a week then some chemical help to finish things off
cover crop ahead of that crop was Pedder #1 mix IIRC
excellent .i'm a small arable farmer but none the less - interested in direct drilling.and the improvement of soil structure.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
You may have to change your forum name then!
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Those look excellent but didn't you say there was hardly any OSR in the crop last year?
yes that video was harvest 2013, harvest 2014 was still a good pea crop but the OSR didn't do so well in it (flea beetle I think) we still had a mixed crop and what oar was left did help hold crop up better than wee there was no osr so it definitely helps keep peas standing
putting 100ac in this week
JNG
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- Location
- Leinster, Ireland
Question Clive.
Pedders No 1 mix has Radish, and Peas in It. and you are following it with Peas and OSR. Are you not concerned with rotation not just for this crop but for the gap you technically need to leave before going back to this field with a Brassica or Legume cash crop? This is my biggest worry with all these covers being grown. I understand people talk of improved biology helping in this regard but this will not be proven for at least a decade, but IMO is a worry until then?
Its my plan to mix either Rye or Oats with a bit of Phacelia/Sunflower/Buckwheat (we need minimum two species here to count as EFA area) before next years no till Peas!