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Halbert
11-09-2000 16:40:01
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Re: Re: Re: Planting grain with out a drill in reply to planzman, 11-09-2000 05:29:37
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You can certainly use the broadcast drop spreader to sow the rye/oats, I was doing that today and have used it many times in the past. A Gandy is basically the same, but more accurate to set openings and can be used with granular chemicals.
You will have to use a little more seed than with a proper grain drill. Oat seed tend to be bigger than rye, so you can probably go to 2 bushel/acre; rye maybe 1.5 bushel. I believe one rye bushel is approx 56 lbs; oats a little lighter, I don't know. After spreading I use a tandem disk set at low angle and shallow depth; I don't drag anything behind, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to use a piece of pipe, chain link fence, or cultipacker.
You won't be able to set too accurate; the limiting factor may be set it as low rate as you can without any of the drop holes plugging up, plus a little more. Seed must be clean with no straw/chaff in it or it will plug up.
If ground is well disked before, and it rains right after, you wouldn't even have to disk in, it will come up and birds don't like it as much when soggy.
Don't know what state you are located, but oats freeze out and don't like cold. If the oats won't get enough growth before frost kill, you better go with rye or wheat. Don't know if your fields are sloping, but disk will leave a groove where erosion can start if you disk up and down slope; sometimes I broadcast more rye over the disk grooves.
Good luck and if winter is coming by you, best get started.
ONE OTHER TIP: You might want to plug up every other hole in the spreader if you can, then you can open it up more, be more accurate, and not have as much plugging.
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