Spring Barley - General Thread

[nashmach]

Have the coat back on today. It would skin you

The wooly hat had to be found....

 

[JamesK]

A nice coat of ice on the windscreen of the van this morning.

 

[drew]

Unexpected(yeah right can’t trust forecasts at all still) rain overnight but nothing too major, a little bit damper than it was last night but should be ok by time drill arrives hopefully

 

[Dunmasc]

A nice change from racing around sowing and alternating to fertilizer during the week, ploughing for maize.
Have my own and most of the barley sown on hire. 60 acres left, of late ground. It should be dry enough to plough by now

 

[Paw]

It's raining here for the last 2 hours....

And bloody cold too.

Been the same over here.

 

[Masseyrk662]

I took on the sowing of the organic barley

 

[Masseyrk662]

Go fancy deutz go

 

[Crops]

Go fancy deutz goView attachment 136759View attachment 136760

What model is it?

 

[Masseyrk662]

What model is it?

720 with amazone disc drill

 

[Tipp_Man]

Go fancy deutz goView attachment 136759View attachment 136760

What have you got there? More pictures please!!

 

[Masseyrk662]

 

[KTM 450]

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Jasus I’d have to go way on a course to learn how to drive that yolk with all them screens.
I’m not great with compoooters.

 

[Masseyrk662]

Jasus I’d have to go way on a course to learn how to drive that yolk with all them screens.
I’m not great with compoooters.

I haven’t drove a fendt in 10 years and it was an old type 820. Never used one of these drills before either and wasn’t shown how but getting on good but I can’t get the markers working

 

[Crops]

720 with amazone disc drill

A gorgeous combination.

It’s a dangerous thing to get a demo of something like that…

 

[nashmach]

Jasus I’d have to go way on a course to learn how to drive that yolk with all them screens.
I’m not great with compoooters.

You can join the club on that one. It must be a sign of old age that I'd have no interest in driving a yoke like that at all.

 

[Crops]

You can join the club on that one. It must be a sign of old age that I'd have no interest in driving a yoke like that at all.

I’d be the opposite,

The number one contractor in East Cork has that drill, it’s amazingly accurate in terms of seed rate and is easy to calibrate.
It has the disc coulter with packer wheel behind it and the seed placement is excellent.
Auto steer on the tractor too, once you use autosteer, there is no going back.

 

[headcase]

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Auto steer on the tractor too, once you use autosteer, there is no going back.

Im converted too

 

[jf 850]

This is as near as I got to it today. Its probably sowed by now.
Picked stones and spread fertiliser on it yesterday.
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He sowed it last night .
I rolled it tonight . It was lea in 2023 , and its looking like it won't be as dry again for a while.

 

[Masseyrk662]

I’m still drilling here. The drill is a more modern version of my own, tractor is nice but I’d probably be faster with my own, that is also out drilling. The auto steer is what makes late nights possible

 

[Masseyrk662]

18 acres in since it came. Not a bad machine

 

[Iggy]

Last field.

 

[jf 850]

View attachment 136788Last field.

3 C hmmm.

 

[thefarminglad]

3 C hmmm.

twas frosty last night, grass was white when i brought in the cows for milking this morning

 

[DCol]

Motoring since last Wednesday

 

[MF30]

Motoring since last Wednesday View attachment 136826
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Yes, I see mine up yesterday morning after 8 days. The heat and moisture combination in late April speeds it up, if usually sown in mid March here it takes 16 days to emerge.