- Location
- Lincolnshire
My tests showed carbon increase in the soils.
AB15 2 year legume fallow
- Thread starter Flat 10
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My tests showed carbon increase in the soils.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
What’s that going to be used for . Forage or AD . Baling and wrapping makes it an expensive job. Everyone’s got tons of surplus forage around here this year .
Not the case 15miles South!!
Might be looking for cheap big bales of hay in the North of the County... I am turning "set aside" grass areas into bales at the moment, and the cows can eat it or lie on it. Should have baled it today, but too busy getting birdy mix in!!
Fat hen
Member
I know the C went up substantially.
Plough????
Yea. There won’t be a no till drill up here anytime soon.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Forage.
Cow + bale = milk and turds. I'm reliably informed that milk then turns into money.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Spring oat land is often a bit cack. Especially after the wet winter - no decent rooting. This clover stuff I'm going to solo and dad will power harrow straight behind. Spray off and drill in a month.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
So long as they pay me the £££, they could be doing witchcraft.
- Location
- Yorks
Would be interesting to know how many bales per acre when they get finished?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Looks like 80 bales from 17ac. Big bales. 30 percent moisture. Really dense. Ton each? Not sure but very, very heavy. Baler man seemed pleased. I'll be pleased once it's shifted, roundupped, limed, soloed, power harrowed and ready for wheat.
Lots of daddy longlegs. That's bad though isn't it?
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- Location
- Yorks
Thanks, that gives me something to go on when the time comes to cut ours (if we get accepted for 1st Jan 2021, should do as have some SSSI so almost guaranteed to get inso I'm told).
It's optional to include grass in the seed mix from 2021. What do people think to pros and cons of including grass?
Bit more diversity and ground cover if establishment is iffy. Don't like idea of grass running to seed, and having grass in following cereal crop, although could use something like cocksfoot which I guess won't persist in cereals like ryegrass does.
Or just go straight legumes?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The view from the baler man was the grass gave it some bulk and made a better product. From my point of view, the grass holds the soil together better. The cost of course is grass seed return. But given I will be using a fairly robust preem anyway, and have never really had issues with tame ryegrass. Now, depending on taste I would have gone for a wider mix of grasses and included some tall fescue as I want a real thick mat of roots.
My daddy is in the next scheme and is going zero grass, as he will keep mulching it and is not bothered about the feed. He wants zero grass weeds. Anyway, mine will be a seedbed by next week, and can sit and grow junk until mid October.
My daddy is in the next scheme and is going zero grass, as he will keep mulching it and is not bothered about the feed. He wants zero grass weeds. Anyway, mine will be a seedbed by next week, and can sit and grow junk until mid October.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The clover roots in the ab15 are really incredible .
Fat hen
Member
I’ve taken the considered decision that I’m just gonna drill wheat straight into the 60 acres of AB15. Rammed with root.
Any cultivation is only going to make the situation worse was what my agronomist said
- Location
- Bedfordshire
My neighbour is doing the same, unless you are my neighbour??