WoodyPopper Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Last year my permission had strips of maize for game cover. After it was cut, they didn't plough in the stubble for months and I had some good days on it. I was looking forward to the same this year, but they ploughed it all in straight after they cut it. Any idea why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenlandHunter Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Had the same problem myself, was hoping to have a go on our shoots maize but the farmer just ploughed it straight in. Its not just for our benefit its also benefitting the remaining pheasants and other wildlife for the couple of weeks its there he may of ploughed it in as he wanted his strip back and planted ready for crops for the summer, who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Thats a shame im getting good shooting over maize at the moment had 126 todaay and 90 over the weekend .only just started dragging them round me and thats not to bad to shoot over for a few days aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MITCHF Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 Our crops get ploughed in by the nieghbour farmer for free as favor to the shoot, but, it's as and when he can fit them in as his priority is his own land. Consequently we have no notice, or set period for stubble shooting, some years we get a few weeks or it could be just days. Maybe that's your problem. All the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitnmiss Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 A lot of it depends on the weather, as it was dry this year we plough a lot of ours in, in the week after the season finished, and boy i'm glad we did now!!! we leave a couple of bits for pigeon shooting on by shoot members, but only a few weeks. We don't like to leave them to late or you run the risk of birds nesting. Also a lot depends on soil type, if you've got easy working light soil thats free draining you can leave it a lot longer than if you've got heavy land that needs all the weather you can get on it. It showed on some this year the early plough land only needed cultivating once while land that was only ploughed a week later needed 2 or 3 passes. Any way hope thats helped answer your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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