Italian Ryegrass & Westerwolds spring 2015 offers

Italian Ryegrass blend and Westerwolds spring offer. Details of my spring 2015 offer can be found attached below, if you have trouble viewing or would like a quote via PM then please let me know.

Conventional & Organic mixtures & straights also available.

 

[spin cycle]

Italian Ryegrass blend and Westerwolds spring offer. Details of my spring 2015 offer can be found attached below, if you have trouble viewing or would like a quote via PM then please let me know.

Conventional & Organic mixtures & straights also available.

sounds a good offer ...what sowing rate do you reccomend?

 

[Great In Grass]

15kgs/acre will do the trick.

 

[Great In Grass]

Gromax details;

 

[spin cycle]

15kgs/acre will do the trick.

how quick is the 'catch crop'?.....can it be sowed post winter cereal...for a bite when?

 

[Great In Grass]

No problem in sowing post winter cereals 8 to 9 weeks later you should have something to graze, IRG will grow as long as temp is above 3dC.

 

[bidders]

Are these on the recommended list or older less economic varieties?

Any germination percentages available?

 

[Great In Grass]

The varieties in the blend will be varieties that have recently come off the recommended grass & clovers list. Over the past two years hundreds of acres of this mix has been sown by forum members with no problems to my knowledge. A mix containing listed varieties will be approximately 0.40p/kg more.

I will need to enquire as to germ figures.

 

[bidders]

Old or new they would both cost the same to grow and I would think very few would want an older variety over a new one.

 

[Great In Grass]

I'm glad you pay attention to my posts, hows Ralph?

 

[Great In Grass]

Anyone who would like a mixture containing RGCL listed varieties please follow the link below;

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/italian-ryegrass-mixture-part-deux.48202/

 

[rob1]

Hi Kevin can you send me 100kg of the westerwolds please, the haylage we made from last years has gone down a storm so need to make more this time.

Rob

 

[Great In Grass]

Hi Rob will do, 1st week March okay or a little later? Nice to hear it worked well for you last year.

 

[rob1]

Hi Rob will do, 1st week March okay or a little later? Nice to hear it worked well for you last year.

Yes thats fine trifle damp here again, let me know when its on the way.

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

Hi Kevin can you send me 100kg of the westerwolds please, the haylage we made from last years has gone down a storm so need to make more this time.

Rob

I'm surprised you got it to dry enough for haylage. Any Westerwolds I've seen has such huge knuckles one it I would of thought it would take forever to dry. Am I wrong?

 

[rob1]

I'm surprised you got it to dry enough for haylage. Any Westerwolds I've seen has such huge knuckles one it I would of thought it would take forever to dry. Am I wrong?

I think not over doing the fert helps, was four days between cutting and baling

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

I think not over doing the fert helps, was four days between cutting and baling

Interesting. Have steered away from it because of my thoughts on it maybe I have be doing it a injustice!

 

[bobk]

I think not over doing the fert helps, was four days between cutting and baling

I bale it behind the mower , got enough straw

 

[Gatehouse Farm]

I bale it behind the mower , got enough straw

Don't want it that wet for woollies

 

[rob1]

Interesting. Have steered away from it because of my thoughts on it maybe I have be doing it a injustice!

I had sheep on it till mid march then 75 units of N cut around 5 June, would be very different if 120 N and cut 5th May, I am surprised how well it feeds to be honest, all the yards including my own livery love it,anything having it will not touch the very best hay, I would imagine the sugar level is pretty high. I am using it instead of rape as a break crop, the downside so far is that the second cut had some viable seed which I left to germinate and this meant the wheat went in mid Oct on wet land, we had 2ins of rain within ten days of strip tilling the wheat and it is not looking that clever at the moment, next time I will leave the crop over winter and run tack sheep on it till end of Feb then drill spring Barley. Compared to rape it is a cheap crop to grow and higher income, aim is to sow in the autumn graze with sheep cut twice 1st year and get some self sown seed to get a second year out of it