Wondering?

[cottonpicken]

In an emergency seeding situation would it be possible
to ****** rig a set of heavy harrows behind a tow-
between seed tank to get the larger wheat and barley
seeds going?

Has anybody heard of it before?

[SASKFARMER3]

So you got more snow last night also.
Hey if its wet and one has to do what ever I think in conditions we have it would work.
Throw wheat or barley on ground if its wet will germinate on top. Get dirt on top and guess what it will grow.
Desperate times mean desperate measures.
Went for a ride on 7710 yesterday. Wow water water every where and still lots of snow to melt. Could have taken the sled but snow to hard. People pumping water to save yards all over the place.

[BreadWinner]

What kind of yields would you want out of a brodcasted crop? With proper care you might get %50 of normal. Is it worth the hassle?

[furrowtickler]

I know guys in Elkpoint and north in Alberta that blended seed(wht,bly,canola) with fert and blew it on followed by a light cult and harrows and/or harrow packer bars. they did it for years in wet conditions with good results. Actualy the one guy used to laugh at Sask boys for all the money we were spending on air drilss and direct seeding equip. As far as your idea cotton, why not, if you can get it established one can always fert later.

[fjlip]

Quote in Larry's email,

"Canola yields drop by 1.7 per cent for every day seeding is delayed past May 1, durum wheat yields shed 1.3 per cent a day, and spring wheat crops lose about 0.8 per cent per day of their potential."

50% yield at June 1st anyway.

[BreadWinner]

If the ground isnt preworked brodcasting is a waist of time. For those that worked fields black last fall you might have half a chance. If you got stubble you better have taken crop insurance and pray for the goverment to save you. We have had 3 years experience with this situation 2005,2006,2010. all three years the only brodcasting that ammounted to anything was on ground that was anhyd in the fall and black. Maybe a vertical tillage tool could move enoungh dirt on top of the seed never tried that yet. Heavy harrows dont move soil in wet ground. If it is dry enought to cultivate it into the ground it is dry enough to use an air drill. You might think you got it all figured out then it doent stop raining and it dies anyways. Good Luck.

[mbratrud]

I was thinking a person should go out before the frost is out of the ground.

[BTOfarmallll]

Do heavy harrows ever do much of anything??? Leave the hunk of junk in the bush as snow fence where it belongs.......

[cottonpicken]

Just thrown it out there.

There are many things i may or may not have on my
farm,but i will always have a heavy harrow-fyi bto.

[BTOfarmallll]

Tell Us Why???

[checking]

BT corn ball.

Heavy harrows have their uses.

Not all of us have soils that only produce dwarf cereal stems. Not all of us have crops that won't lodge. Not all of us want to throw matches at trouble, stubble fields. Not all of us think that discs, plows and cultivators are a solution. Not all of us have state of the art straw choppers that never fly apart during harvest.

The day I didn't have a heavy harrow, would be the day I was looking for one in your bluff.

[highwayman]

Heavy harrows do work very well for lightly incorporating pre-emergent chemical such as ethafluralin and trifluralin. Have been useing one for twelve years and wouldn't be without it.