After a prolonged period of rain which has delayed wheat planting, we managed to plant a few hectares between the showers. This is Siskin wheat being planted into a covercrop of linseed, buckwheat and phacelia up on Bredon Hill.
Great video Jake good to see looked a great cover crop thanks for the vid can you keep us updated on the crop growth during it life please thanks Antony 👍 👍
Really informative as always Jake. Great to see drilling into a standing cover. Will be great (as per other comments) to see how the crop progresses. Still not convinced by a crumpet then? Thought it might work nicely on the front of your tractor. I guess that because your spraying glyph and pre em anyway then it would be an unnecessary hassle, is that right? Does anyone else make a cross slot drill? 👍👍thanks.
Ben Pattinson Ben, I’m sure Jake will be along with his answer but my experience in UK is unless cover crop is frosted (-3 to -4) crimping or rolling is very unreliable. We still need to use Glyphosate to kill the Blackgrass (weed that Jake pointed out). If we had no problematic grass weeds we could leave those cover species to be slowly killed through the winter. Ive seen this in France and the thought is that it camouflages the wheat from autumn aphid attack so less need for insecticide.
HawkMillFarm great info, thankyou. Think I might be allowing myself to get carried away with how good the crimper roller would be or more accurately how good it would“look” on the front of that tractor drill combo.
