- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Istabraq here copes well with the soil type, moving over to skyscraper now, had good goes with Oakley in the past. It all depends on spring rainfall as the light soils have little water storage.
Hopefully it remains popular so we can keep growing it as a seed crop!Spotlight looking better than Skyscraper here at the moment although it’s not supposed to do as well north of the border. Will be interesting come harvest to find out.
Istabraq still got quite a following up here, particularly in Fife.
Always found it a bit hit & miss myself. Some years 4t/acre others 2.75t. Maybe just didn’t suit the farm
Get on well with it here, we arn't early drillers. Generally a bit after beet too.
Our 2 best bits are after peas that was our version of min till that went in late Oct (for seed) and some drilled (mauled) in after beet on Jan 31st at one hell of a seed rate that had plenty of rain after but looks thick and reasonably green now.