Home saving conventional OSR

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Yes totally but surely the point of home saved seed would be to spend less time establishing the crop and just double the seed rate as the seed cost is minimal
Yes thats what we did.. (flee beetle put a stop to growing it) but never roundup-ed, oddly 90% of the seed mix was home saved and never had a flea beetle problem, then once the ban came in we lost the crop.
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
A week is neither here nor there and well it’s got to go through the drier anyway, but up here in north Scotland you could be nearer a month I reckon, it takes three weeks for roundup to sorta work,,,,,,, thick green stems are hard work to harvest, but having said that I may trial a tramline with no glyphosate 👍👍
Be gentle with the thrashing, its thrashed before it gets to the drum so get it out the back without smashing the stems and you will be OK.
 

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