Chin up.....
AB15 2 year legume fallow
- Thread starter Flat 10
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
£50 a test for the soil health suite of tests. That's sending someone to to them. Will prod more to see what a bulk rate for diy (ie me coming and taking them) would be.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
How was the first wheat after it? How did you establish it etc? I'm thinking the soil ought be in great condition to direct drill, but after last year's rain....
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Any issues with Ryegrass in the following wheat crop.
Fat hen
Member
Late Oct 17 was sticky conditions. Took a lot to kill dense clover/grass - took 2 goes, I felt it needed lifting to relieve compaction from the numerous flailings, Sticky conditions. 3-3.5t/ac.
Oct 2018 was much much better conditions - bone dry for Flatlifting, catch crop then dd on the green. Sometimes the Flatlift leaves an uneven field for drilling, so might run over it with 1" depth shortdiscs
Fat hen
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Not yet. have you? Someone said annual ryegrass is much worse than this type
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Mine was flailed twice last year. Has just been left to grow this time. Must say I'm tempted to plough it! Although most likely I will disc it and power harrow tight behind.
Fat hen
Member
Would that not lose some of the sequestred Carbon as CO2? As soil scientists tell us what happens when soil is inverted?...
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yup. But I'm after a bloomin huge crop of cereals for a couple of years. Of course, if they want to pay me more for another year.....
Farmersdaughter
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Have three fields of AB15 which finished yesterday. Will go in to WW, and hope to take a cut off it first. It was topped end of June, the vetch and clover have come well but the grass has not. Was going to round bale and wrap but was not sure how the vetch and clover would ensile. Question is to cut now or leave a few weeks.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Mine is mega thick, and the aim is cut abdolutely as soon as possible to give time for the roundup and the cultivator to get in. And the lime and the muck spreader.
Surely (when it dries up again!) it will be easier to mow and wilt now, as opposed to late September, unless of course, you pre-cut Roundup? Then bale and wrap....
Sprog
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- Location
- South Shropshire
I think you should check your diary, you probably topped it at the end of March.
That was when I did mine in the second year.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Depends when it stops raining.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Is there some bug that eats clover? Every single plant has been eaten in my new ab15 field. Grass all fine. No slugs - pelleted pre drilling, double rolled and pelleted again.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Seems to be some kind of beetle or weevil. Perhaps it was a bad idea to sow next to last year's ab15?
Clover seed weevil or some such from memory. Old timers had problems with land becoming clover sick I think. Someone will be better informed than me.