YELROM
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Have to be out with the knapsack
Have to be out with the knapsack
No I haven't.Have you planted gd wheat into grass before? Looks good.
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Wheat going into it.
Yes it's had pH correction.Are the white ish lumps spread on the surface lime?
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To this yesterday. A bit slow but looking OK.View attachment 742250
My wheat after grass seemed a bit slow coming through. What drill have you used?
Couple of pic from a brief look around today
Everything looking spot on, full crop hedge to hedge, never seen the farm look so good heading towards Christmas
Wheat after spring oats - 750a drilled with Aricks row cleaners
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And winter beans after wheat drilled into cover crops
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Those beans look good and fairly thick. What seed rate did you go at?
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IMO those beans will need k to be safe as the cycling from cover crop might not happen by time its required by beans. The cover crop plants look k dependant, more so than cereals etc.
Looks good but, good bird damage cover as well....
Ant...
Interesting comment re K - can you eloborate further please ?
If planting broadleaf / barrisica species for cover crop which are more hungry for K than say a Cereal or just in general - that amount of biomass would mean that a % of K from the soil is now laying on top of the ground, for that to return in time for the Beans to use maybe a stretch - so personally id be nervous because if you miss producing flowers its not like a cereal where an N shot can get you off the hook. This would be a classic scenario where someone tried cover crops then complained of lower yields, until the K levels or any nutrient for that matter i would be still adding in some until you can afford to leave the overflow on the deck in form of plant matter. In a few years with testing should reach a plateau where not having to add stuff all in.
Thats only my opinion.
Also if sowing early and beans get going before winter will they get leggy? chasing sunlight being buried amongst cover crop - just a thought??
Cheers, Ant
Makes sense re the K - I wil foliar test in the spring to see how they are coping, soil indices are k though which should help
They are not early for winter beans in the UK - week 1 nov drilled is the norm here and winter will hold them back until spring usually
Be wary of leaf tests. During rapid vegetative growth K will often show up with a low reading even if there’s a good soil supply. Peak K demand is May to July so your cover crop should have been broken down by then anyway.