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    We try an avoid undersowing barley. Fine if it goes well but if not its a nightmare to combine.

i remember potato planting before all the bed formers , bed tillers , liquid fert etc. etc 

ploughed, rotavated , planted & ridged later when the tops were through !

have to ask mate as been out of the loop for a few years , why are you undersowing wheat with grass/clover?

    We do it so as to give it a head start for winter and also it helps keep the weeds at bay in the wheat.

Lovely photos Tim, enjoyably topic this. Will the grass and clover be harvested for seed or anything after the wheat comes off?

    Yer next year we will take a crop of silage off it and possably fence the field to put the cattle in it.

    Will do ta.

  Had to get wheels changed this week so I could get on with some under sowing of grass/clover into winter wheat. Also had to put some red clover on a couple of bare fields then roll it in.

great pictures Tim, there is no need to pull beds up/ de clod on silts and fenland, the job has to be kept simple unfortunately some (expert) reckons you get better skin finnish if tates are grown on sandy soil with irrigation, they didnt stop to think about the cost of destoning, irrigating now the packers, supermarkets and merchants prefer tates grown in sand full of flint!!!!!

    We irrigate when we can, but not always possible. In the past we have had adjacent fields 1 irrigated 1 not. Might of been luck but you had a job to tell the samples apart.

  As for cost, that field was getting 4 passes(2 with each challenger) before i  planted then they still have to be power ridged. I'm not a huge fan of our system, but then i don't think de-stonning/clodding is the way to go either. Not on this land anyway. In the past have seen the outcome of it in cornwall with fields like bogs or sometimes on the road after a rain. Not always the machines fault i know.

      We are mostly a happy bunch. Job advert last year said must have a sense of hummer. Don't know if that was to laugh at us or with us. Planting this way ain't my choice as have to go through with a power ridgier yet. Not enough money in it to warrant new kit so we keep plodding on the same.

Where did you get that hat

Where did you get that tile

Isn't it a nobby one

And just the proper style

I should like to have one

Just the same as that

Wherever I go they'd shout "Hello"

Where did you get that hat       

    Have to wear the hat and the glasses so as not to get mobbed by the gir gulls. 

  Contractor was also bringing us some more of the good stuff in the next field.               

  Yer they do seem to be round here. Think there are 6  in the immediate area including ours.

  Followed by me planting.         

    The ploughing and spreading photo's were taken a month or so ago. So to bring things a bit more up to date, last week was spent planting potato's. Few photo's of the challengers working land.         

    Thanks for all the comments. Pictures are pot luck, just point an shoot. The farm is just south of Boston near Kirton.

Wow!! Would you/your bosses argue that on land ploughing is better for the ground than in furrow? Like wheel slip etc?

    Yes better for the land. No smearing in the furrow.

    Bit of dung spreding. Contractor normally runs 2 strautmann's but had the Ktwo on demo             

  We mainly run deere's. 11 tractors and 2 loaders. Plus theres 2 cat challengers and 1 ford.

  Big doors are ok but less options for mounting controll box's/ CB,s I-pods and all the other clutter i seem to have.

  It took a bit of getting used too, but works well thanks. All our ploughing is done on the top now. 2 dowdeswell 7 furrows and this one.

    After spending plenty of time looking through other peoples photo's I thought it about time I put some of mine up..

  Thanks. Followed the tips, seemed strait forward enough

    Just  signed up to photobucket, so trying it out..

  Some cracking photo`s Erik. The 2 Challengers in 1 field are from were I work. Jon was actually on the phone to me saying there was someone taking pictures. They were drilling the last of our spring wheat.

Also been mucking out cattle at work. Came home cooked and ate tea. Now updating my Ipod.

in the words of motley crue "you've gotta fight, for your right, to party"

    Was that not the Beasty boys..

Agree on the corn bins, we`ve 32 of them

About that yer.