Posted by fixerupper on April 10, 2015 at 17:54:59 from (100.42.82.100):
In Reply to: broadcasting oats posted by Brian806 on April 10, 2015 at 15:05:45:
I've been around a drill only a handful of times in my life and I've been on an Iowa farm for 64 years. In my neck of the woods very few farmers had a drill because we have never had enough acres of small grain to justify one. That and the old drills just didn't work well in our heavy damp soil. The new drills are a whole different ball game and can do an excellent job in our soils.
We always broadcast three bushels per acre and then lightly disked them in. I've never had very good luck with just dragging and rolling oats in. Too shallow is worse than too deep with oats. They will come up from a pretty darned deep depth. Following the disk with a roller won't hurt a bit.
That said, a drill still gives you a more consistent stand and if you can get hold of one use it. 2 1/2 bushels per acre works well with a drill and gives you about the same stand as 3 bushels per acre broadcast. It's not the end of the world if you broadcast, you just need to make an extra trip across the field and you will use a little more seed.
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