Farmer Focus: Mixed success with min-tilled winter oats

Sunday afternoons are often spent crop walking. Winter barley and wheat are both looking promising, but only harvest will tell if my decisions to date will pay off. Part of one wheat field though, is looking somewhat thin. This is due to the drill deciding to experiment by halving the planned seed rate without telling the operator. Luckily, it was only 2ha and it does prove that low seed rates in north-west Ireland in October just don’t work. See also: Read […]