Blackgrass wrote: » This is the reason we use the vaddy drill, we'll press with the rexius pre drill but depends on the weather if the clay will dry like concrete or weather down as steel and diesel can only do so much. Another issue is poor seedbeds are just not a go here as gives terrible BG control due to poor pre em coverage. The left side should breakdown to look like the right side which is almost perfect.
Mad4simmental wrote: » Can you work an air drill type set up over there wit a tractor like that. Or is the soil to sticky for one of them? You could cover 12m easy with one.
Blackgrass wrote: » Happy enough with your wheat proteins are high! any idea what the late N was worth? Done osr/peas busy moleploughing land that wasnt subsoiled last year and cultivating start wheat Thursday i reckon so should be all squared off to drill osr. Gone try the 210r on rexius just to press down the heaviest of planted osr ground as a rolls. Peas did 4.8t/ha which very happy with, had to send them away wet as pia to dry at low heat. Osr yielded about 4.4-.5t/ha on average so happy enough.
Dawggone wrote: » OK as promised harvest results. Wheat. Average yield ( tons harvested/ha wheat) = 8.57tons/ha Average % moisture = 12.1% Average bushel = 79.8 kg/hl Wheat sold to date = €181.89 average across all tons. 83% of wheat sold. Wheat in store is all above 13.6% protein (should have sold more!). Wbarley 7.1ton/ha. Moisture 11.1% Bushel 69.7kg/hl. All barley sold @ € 166/ton Triticale. 7.9ton/ha All sold @ € 164/ton
Ttttttttytttty wrote: » What would be a a good feeding option for finishing Bulls at 16 months
Blackgrass wrote: » Magnum? Yeah should beat rain early next week will have peas and osr done. Finishing at 6 this pm for a rest, cultivators started yesterday. Got second quad for that precious thing at harvest, time! To do other stuff between ripping out oar ground and putting back in on wheat. Have an agreement to plough bout 1000 acre of ad maize for local companies ntractor for some pasteurised digest ate and keep quads busy jan/feb before start work on home block in march
Mad4simmental wrote: » Ya the oz style air drill and seed cart, you can drop feed the liquid fert as you drill and feed mins to the soil and adjust from field to field as required. Just queries as to how they don't take off on big outfits this side of the world is it soil type? Edit: those vaderstadt drills look like an impressive piece of kit.
Mad4simmental wrote: » Ya the oz style air drill and seed cart, you can drop feed the liquid fert as you drill and feed mins to the soil and adjust from field to field as required. Just queries as to how they don't take off on big outfits this side of the world is it soil type?
Blackgrass wrote: » New tractor turned up, now we have time I n August to do work not tear about ripping ground out of rape to be ready to redrill osr, a nice luxury is time... Stilts but wrong place. Tillage train
Dawggone wrote: » Nice bit of kit there Blackgrass! I'm glad I didn't post up pics of my new pony....only half the size! Harvest going well? I will post up my harvest returns later.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Serious kit. What area what would she cover.
Blackgrass wrote: » Got a nice call we need more trailers! This afternoon yeilding up on 4.5t/ha at late 7's-8% oils back to more common mid 40's happy chappy though. Reminds me of another man, you heard of willie fitz he's stone mad! Sorry not your guy, sher be bad grass land burns up for august time what ya saying
Greengrass1 wrote: » Was a very mild winter here for it. Dunno how good it would be if we got a snowy one. Alot didn't look to well after the frost Willie M? Seriously early ground either side of the slaney Be great ground for milk
Blackgrass wrote: » Find bio drill easy to use yes happy with it. Goes on drill for applying avadex also. We've peas near right so better come right! Over cast but windy last few days.
Brown Podzol wrote: » "In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;"
Dawggone wrote: » "But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumphed is forgot."
Brown Podzol wrote: » "And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.":):)
Dawggone wrote: » Jeez you could be right! I thought it was a spring malting barley...maybe the brain is getting addled with age!
freedominacup wrote: » I thought blenheim was a winter wheat? Used to do fairly well around here late January sown.
