…but you are happy to write about it!!?
You are a real card @Huno
As it happens one of the things I am keen to try is feeding to the clover livestock as it is supposed to go through their gut and still be viable. Feed or seed?
the cat is out of the bag now!! I do wonder if feeding it might be the best plan there as it remains within the rules after 15th august in yr 2!
Suppose you could put the seed out onto a field to provide bird seed. They might not eat it all.
As it happens one of the things I am keen to try is feeding the clover to livestock as it is supposed to go through their gut and still be viable. Feed or seed?
Lots of mine coming into flower but only drilled mid April.wont top it till everything has flowered and gone to seed.seems criminal to destroy the flowers and bees.regs say to cut twice in first year but I’m assuming that’s if drilled previous autumn.have topped some late drilled stuff only 6 inches tall but that was to cut black grass and thistles.
Never got accepted till jan 1 this year.paper work went on last july
A late answer but what we did was mow it off and bale and wrap it . The dry cows went mad for it . We also sold some to a neighbouring farmer for £25 an acre and he made 'hay 'of his, once again his cows loved it. We were lucky that on the 15th of August the weather was favourable to do it . As soon as bales were cleared and it started to green up we sprayed it off .
Says in regs to drill spring,summer or autumn.will probably get redrilled midway or autum 25 and then run till 5 years when agreement ends.looking back I think maybe I should have left till autumn to drill but just went with regs and had no one to discuss this with.im sure it will all be fine.early drilled stuff looks great at the moment and later drilled stuff willl soon catch up.all a big learning process.
Hi, what you have done is not wrong. But you have foregone the opportunity of a cash crop summer 2023 prior to establishing AB15 in Autumn 2024, prior to mid September, as your CSAgreement started Jan 2023. You will in effect have three summers of AB15 in that field, rather than the two Summers that was all that was required to comply with the scheme. Does mean you could possibly / probably do as you please at the moment as scheme doesn’t require establishment until September. Take a hay silage crop?
Does anyone have any good tips please on the best way to destroy AB15 Legume mix prior to planting winter wheat? Possibly looking to shallow cultivate/rake before direct drilling with Weaving GD
