Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
Ok then, farming on pretty light land, potatoes and carrots are the banker. Cereals work away but obviously expensive to grow. I've been moving away from risky crops like malting barley, wheat can do 9t if weather is perfect, s. Oats 7 and growing cereal rye which does 8 or so.
I'm trying to devise a system that reduces workload on the cereals and allows more attention to be paid to the roots.
To that end how few passes do readers think I could go down to in wheat , as that is the crop with biggest risk between yield variation and cost to grow. At the moment use a lot of HSS drilled at high rates ,500/M2, so that I don't have to rely on weak tillers. Sown October and liberator/dff as pre em, then usual 4 fungicides. I also have another pass to apply wild oats spray separate. Fert is fibrophos in autumn and three passes of home mixed UAS in the spring. Plough and press then power Harrow system but also mintill if we can.
Any thoughts, or even just discussion welcomed.[emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji8][emoji106]
I'm trying to devise a system that reduces workload on the cereals and allows more attention to be paid to the roots.
To that end how few passes do readers think I could go down to in wheat , as that is the crop with biggest risk between yield variation and cost to grow. At the moment use a lot of HSS drilled at high rates ,500/M2, so that I don't have to rely on weak tillers. Sown October and liberator/dff as pre em, then usual 4 fungicides. I also have another pass to apply wild oats spray separate. Fert is fibrophos in autumn and three passes of home mixed UAS in the spring. Plough and press then power Harrow system but also mintill if we can.
Any thoughts, or even just discussion welcomed.[emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji62][emoji8][emoji106]