Drilling wheat and clover.

Last Wednesday we sprayed off the oats ( which had been hammered by the cold winter) , the black grass which seemed to have come from no where and all the other odd weeds that were growing quite merrily.
The next question is what to do? do we cultivate or attempt to direct drill. We chose the latter and used our Weaving tine drill .
For the direct drill purist this isnt strictly direct drilling as we had moved the soil in the autumn when we had drilled the oats but it worked so thats fine.
We drilled on Thursday 24th March (after subsoiling the tramlines ). with 180 kg/ha of ACBarrie spring red wheat , which will be grown on contract for Gleadells on their RHM contract for UK bread .
According to the great and good this wheat gets full of disease, grows very tall, gets more disease and then falls over ,and doesnt yield and we want to try and grow it with less fungicides. Oh well we`ll see.
After drilling we rolled it in , with 12m rolls.
The following day we spread on 10kg/ha of red clover(we are giving theclover thing another go) with the quad bike , which was very easy and then rolled it in at angle to the previous days rolling .
We now wait for rain .
PS it rained today .