Moore UNIDRILL 300 Manual Download

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I. BURYING THE STRAW

Select a suitable variety.

According to the selected variety, the quality of produced straw can vary as well as its shock
resistance. A variety that is resistant to illness and does not imperatively require fungicidal
protection at the end of the season will also be more easily decomposed by the fauna in the
soil. A late Spray of Round up is recommended.

Prepare and adjust settings on the combine harvester

Tightening the thresher and increasing the rotational speed will help to break the straw and
help to spread it better. Dry straw breaks more easily under these conditions, harvest the
fields that you wish to sow first. The combine harvester must be imperatively equipped with
a chaff spreader. Shred the straw into chaff of 5-6cm (sharpen the shredder blades, tighten
all belts) and spread evenly. Don’t drill into poorly spread chaff.

Shred the chaff and stubble behind the combine harvester

In particular, if the catch-crop period is short, the cutting level is high, the chaff is poorly
spread out and you wish to till the soil with tools fitted with tines.

As soon as the sowing is finished, keep clean and strong crops growing together.

Use clean seeds that are free of weeds and have a high germinal power. The seeds must be
placed to obtain a fast and even growth, to create a culture that will be able to compete with
weeds and have a high germinal power.

Use a seed drill which causes little disturbance of the soil such as the

UNIDRILL.

The UNIDRILL works exclusively in the sowing line, which avoids seeds that escaped the
stale seed bed from emerging. Prefer wide spacing between rows such as that of the
UNIDRILL (16.6 cm).

Watch for the evolution of the flora during the cultures’ growth period

With conservation tillage, the usual weeds do not appear in the same quantities or at the
same dates: additionally, new species may appear. Prepare for this evolution by improving
your botanical knowledge. Every week while the crops are growing, walk through the fields
moving into plots of land in a continuous series of “Ws”, identifying plants and their
respective development, write any observations down and trace the history of each plot of
land.

7. Use herbicides of new chemical categories every year

Using different Chemicals each year will help avoid crops becoming resistant to the
chemicals.

Clean borders, fallows and crops before the heading

Cut or shred weeds on embankments, in ditches and in fallows rather than treating them
with total herbicide, some perennial plants might not react to the product and may then
become difficult to get rid of. Some find it preferable to grow rye-grass on boarders. It
chokes weeds and can be easily kept under control using a mower. During  the  season
destroy the remaining localised weed growth spots using localised treatments, using a
strimmer or by hand.

Avoid scattering weed seeds when harvesting

Start harvesting the cleanest plots of land. In weed-infested plots, harvest the cleanest parts
first. Clean the combine harvester well after harvesting weed-infested land.

Ploughing is a last resort if the above techniques are not sufficient enough to get rid of
annual grass or dicotyledons.