Strip till cultivators for cereal growing

[Spud]

What drill did you use?

It's a 2018 mounted Moore drill with a self built tool bar between the drill and tractor. Tool bar has spring loaded discs from a KRM drill, followed by cultivating solutions legs from Pan Anglia

 

[Spud]

How do you get on with October drilling in smeary/wetter conditions with the leg at any depth?

We didn't, everything was too wet. The toolbar was built this last winter

 

[Neer]

I agree. It would be good to be able to strip cultivate with a simpler machine. In our case it would enable us to potentially create a false seedbed in the strips to them hoe out those weeds with our Cameleon drill as we are planting the cereal.

Did you manage to find a solution John? I’m looking at a similar combination, strip till cultivator then direct drill after weed seeds are showing.

 

[John Pawsey]

Did you manage to find a solution John? I’m looking at a similar combination, strip till cultivator then direct drill after weed seeds are showing.

I’m afraid that it didn’t but was talking to a company bought by Lemken to make me something but nothing came of it in the end. You have prompted me to search old old emails to trying and talk to them again! Very best. John

 

[Jerry]

Grange machinery?

Grange Machinery Ltd

grangemachinery.co.uk

 

[Neer]

I’m currently looking at the horizon spx which gives row spacings from 400mm. I can’t see why you couldn’t bring these a bit closer together on the tool bar to achieve the spacings you require? The strip width can be adjusted from 150mm-300mm.
What strip width have you found works best for Wildfarmed wheat and beans to have enough room to grow away from the cover/ley/companion?

 

[willyorkshire]

Did you manage to find a solution John? I’m looking at a similar combination, strip till cultivator then direct drill after weed seeds are showing.

Is the purpose of the predrilling strip cultivation an anti blackgrass strategy? If not, is it a soiltype issue? I'm trying to understand why you would want 2 passes when one could be enough.

 

[Durt Burd]

What about a Czajkowski. Has adjustable row widths for the strip till legs, allows you to place fertiliser down the back on the first pass and the linkage on the back can be used with a toolbar carrying coulter for cereals or swapped for a precision planter for maize. Maybe it will not go narrow enough, but worth a look

Czajkowski ST450 strip-till drill: On the strip

Strip-till drills like the Czajkowski have proved an ideal transition to make the move to no-till but not yet ready to abandon all cultivation

www.profi.co.uk

 

[GRamerDim]

Vaderstad invented something like that for a bit

What was it called? Unless you're talking about the spirit drill from ~2013 or so with the tines instead of discs like they make them now.