Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Danieljack1991]

Extatse Wheat drilled early October. Straight in after winter oats using Amazon Cayenna. No insecticides with 0.3 tebuconazole used at T0 and no T1 fungicide approach. Hoping it holds out until flag leaf without. or even better until harvest! calcium, magnesium and manganese foliar sprays applied.

 

[O'Reilly]

or right now just pull a x4 bigger drill with a fendt 724 for a LOT less capital

this tech is coming but not yet - it’s to expensive vs the alternatives still

Nothing to say that a larger robot couldn't pull a 12m though is there? Putting more horsepower on would be the easy bit.

 

[Clive]

Nothing to say that a larger robot couldn't pull a 12m though is there? Putting more horsepower on would be the easy bit.

true but at current prices it would still be more expensive that a tractor and a man to drive it thats also filling up

the economics of this just don't work yet for cereals in the UK


until you don't need the man to fill it (who therefore may as well be driving a tractor rather that sat reading a newspaper between fills !) and prices fall there isn't a economic case for robots drilling cereals IMO

 

[Brisel]

Read a newspaper? That's what autosteer is for!

 

[cquick]

Testing out the precision drill for direct drilling, patching some sunflowers into flooded patches of wheat.

 

[Sprinter 10]

Avatar sown 25/9/23

And today. 10th may

Avatar sown 25/9/23

Same beans today

 

[AlphaBravoPapaSux]

Testing out the precision drill for direct drilling, patching some sunflowers into flooded patches of wheat.

Are you planning to take these through to harvest?

 

[cquick]

Are you planning to take these through to harvest?

Nope, just keeping the ground active over summer, and testing out the drill before using it in anger.

In other news, today's job. Spraying off the pre-maize and pumpkin covers, then prepping for the pumpkins with the subsoiler. 100kg DAP down the spout. I'm going to leave it a week so the slots have a chance to warm up, and let the flush of weeds grow ahead of the pumpkins so I can take them out at the last moment with another sniff of glyphosate.
The maize ground is receiving biosolids tomorrow morning and then it'll be a race against the rain to subsoil and drill everything...

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