Practices to avoid when furrow sowing:

Top-dressing all fertilisers before seeding with points or blades. The fertiliser can be lockedup in thrown ridges and less available in dry seasons. Using simazine-diflufenican mixtures post emergence on lupins. Metribuzin/ diflufenican causes less crop damage. Using shallow duplex soils which are prone to waterlogging, especially on the . . . → Read More: Furrow Sowing For Improved Crops And Perennial Pastures On Water Repellent Soils