Do you plough all the field including headlands before setting or plough the body of the field, plant it and plough headlands after?Husky is looking okay anyway. Some headlands would only be okay especially where any turning was done.
First two are heavier ground compared to the last.
Three weeks sown tonight.View attachment 84182View attachment 84183View attachment 84184
Do you plough all the field including headlands before setting or plough the body of the field, plant it and plough headlands after?
We do the latter here and find the headlands are in great shape after.
We ploughed headlands last this year too in one case and it worked well.Do you plough all the field including headlands before setting or plough the body of the field, plant it and plough headlands after?
We do the latter here and find the headlands are in great shape after.
I appreciate it wont suit everyone especially if you have someone else doing it for you. We have a couple of sticky headlands and ploughing them after setting the field works a treat.The former rustymysocks, we dont sow the winter crops ourselves as it's a one pass job and to be honest, I would have been happier if the headlands had gotten a run of a harrow before sowing but I was lucky to get it sown late one evening. That headland is pretty decent for a tough headland bar where the drill would have been turned on the headland corners.
Wouldn't dream of it either.We ploughed headlands last this year too in one case and it worked well.
Normally we grub the headlands once the planter is finished turning and it works very well.
Wouldn’t dream of trying to sow straight into headlands which have had the drill turning on them.
Oats are very hardy, will stand a lot of hardship.I'm a novice at this winter sowing craic compared to most of you, second year at it and got on too good in 2018/19!!
Before I would give the whole field a run of the Triple K before sowing but with rain most nights that week when we were sowing, it just wasnt an option. It was also touch and go if this would have been sown before the weather broke the following day so understandably I was nervous.
I should say the powerharrow would have been set deeper when sowing the headlands as well.
Anyways I wont mention headlands again!!
It’s often hard to call, sometimes with winter corn the less operations the better as heavy rain can be hard on land that has too many passes.I'm a novice at this winter sowing craic compared to most of you, second year at it and got on too good in 2018/19!!
Before I would give the whole field a run of the Triple K before sowing but with rain most nights that week when we were sowing, it just wasnt an option. It was also touch and go if this would have been sown before the weather broke the following day so understandably I was nervous.
I should say the powerharrow would have been set deeper when sowing the headlands as well.
Anyways I wont mention headlands again!!
It’s often hard to call, sometimes with winter corn the less operations the better as heavy rain can be hard on land that has too many passes.
A cheap basic grubber is a good investment for headlands I think. €800 could buy a lot.
We usually plough everything and grub the headlands once the drill is finished turning. Same for both spring and winter corn.
Handy too for grubbing out spreader tracks if you have spread P&K on the ploughing.
GreatOats are very hardy, will stand a lot of hardship.
Those conditions are getting beyond hardship, unfortunately.Great
Those conditions are getting beyond hardship, unfortunately.
We have had a reasonably dry autumn compared to last year, no cereals can survive under water for long, but wheat and oats are way hardier than barley. Hopefully it will drain quickly and we get a dry winter, renting ground for tillage is steep leaning curve as to what will work in which fields.
That looks well!View attachment 84434View attachment 84435View attachment 84436View attachment 84437
Oats are moving along nicely here. This is a wetter field no doubt and the poorer headlands are "manmade" in the last 5 years so after last Wednesday and yesterday here, I was not expecting much...
That looks well!