Peaola

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Couple pics while out field walking today of my peaola crop drilled into a unglazed cover crop. It's been VERY slow emerging but has finally made an appearance in rows
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I was worried I wasn't up with the latest no-till lingo.
Is this a money making crop? What could it be compared to gross margin wise?

well its been a money making crop the last few years, my aim is the same this year;)

compare it to the GM of a of a low input spring pea crop plus some osr seed with 1.5-1.8t/ac yield plus a bonus of about 300kg/ac of OSR but without the hassle of trying to cut flat peas :)
 

NorwegianFarmer

New Member
The peaola trial here in Norway have been emerging very slowly due to cold weather, but both crops have came up from the ground now. It looks very good, Clive, hope for our crop to look like that soon. We look forward to harvest!
 

martian

DD Moderator
BASE UK Member
Location
N Herts
We've tried some 'peatard' this year as we didn't really get on with peaola, it was too popular with the local pigeons. We harrowed, after drilling the peas, with an einbock type harrow, as slot closure wasn't that good and the birds were working along the rows, hoicking out the peas; at the same time we broadcast some old mustard seed on top. The idea was that from tiny seed the mighty mustard tree would grow and act as pea sticks for the main crop. The peas have come up a treat. Not much sign of the mustard yet
 

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
Any one else grown and harvested peaola,(or any other peamix to help keeps the peas from going completely flat) this dreadful harvest 2017?
Combined a trial field last night and it definitely seemed to be more off the ground than the peas only crops.
 

York

Member
Location
D-Berlin
friend of mine had a mix of
winter peas
triticale
peas where planed as certified seed. went into bio digester plant as due to the weather pease where germinating & in the end was not worth to clean it.
Peas where good after winter but somehow this year was not good for them. Most winter peas over here ended up in a failure.
York-Th.
 

Northdowns Martin

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Snodland kent
Waded through the threads on Peaola with interest, obviously some growers have a few years of experience under their belts however as a rookie would I be advised to accompany my peas with mustard rather than SOSR, so if it goes pear shaped I have risked less from a seed input cost?
 

Northdowns Martin

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Snodland kent
We've tried some 'peatard' this year as we didn't really get on with peaola, it was too popular with the local pigeons. We harrowed, after drilling the peas, with an einbock type harrow, as slot closure wasn't that good and the birds were working along the rows, hoicking out the peas; at the same time we broadcast some old mustard seed on top. The idea was that from tiny seed the mighty mustard tree would grow and act as pea sticks for the main crop. The peas have come up a treat. Not much sign of the mustard yet
Hi John, successful with the mustard? What seed rate did you try?
 

martian

DD Moderator
BASE UK Member
Location
N Herts
Tbh, I can't remember. But it wasn't enough and the seed (home saved from some years previously) had v poor germination so the whole experiment was a failure. However, I'm sure it's a brilliant idea and might try again sometime.
 

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