Planted cover after OSR
- Thread starter Northdowns Martin
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Philip Hedeng
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- Location
- Halmstad, Sweden
Having volunteers gaining their first true leaves equals one full year of OSR concerning clubroot build up according to research, so I would be very worried with all the volunteers and brassicas discussed. Why not diversify?
Devon James
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- Location
- Devon
We are back growing osr after four years. We always got on well with getting the volunteers to grow by a light harrowing, spray off a couple of days before planting. This allows the wheat to get away while slugs are on the volunteers. Also all the trash gets mixed with a bit of soil ans starts breaking down. Ground is so wet now we maybe a while getting on there
What do you run as a harrow? Straw rake?
- Location
- Cornwall.
May be of interest to some of you here, I had a customer tell me yesterday that the OSR that had a companion crop of Berseem Clover yielded 0.44t/ha more than the crop without, it went over the weighbridge.
Louis Mc
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- Location
- Meath, Ireland
What rate did he drill?
Devon James
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- Location
- Devon
An old spring tine Tume machine. Looking at options but I like the mixing and boiling action of that type of machine.
Planning on going through with the drill and a low rate of linseed to see how that does.
- Location
- Cornwall.
2kg/ha Berseem Clover and 4.5kg/ha Rape.
Hartwig
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- Location
- Scheggerott, Germany
And which herbicide choice then ??
- Location
- Cornwall.
I'll need to find out, I have nothing to do with that side of things.
- Location
- MK43
Centurion Max on 7 Oct, Falcon on 28/10 and Astrokerb on 1 Dec.
The berseem clover is a single cut one so the first frost will take it out.
- Location
- Cornwall.
Thanks for the help.
- Location
- MK43
Memories terrible, but I think we'd had a frost that had taken it out already. Definitely all gone after Christmas though.
d williams
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Seems a lot of seed?
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
I did the same and the astrokerb absolutely smoked it- 180 degree bend in the stem within a day and vanished within a week.
I tried berseem with 30% of my rape last year as a trial. Will be doing the lot this year.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Growing a bit of 2nd wheat for the first time since going no-till. As I write the carrier + seeder are going across the stubbles with a mix of buckwheat, phacelia and berseem clover. It'll have 2-3 months of good growing temperature (+ plenty of moisture at the moment to get it chitted!). I'm hoping it'll act as a mini - break crop and it should help the biology get to work on the straw residue.
dontknowanything
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- Location
- Cambridge
Some Berseems are very frost sensitive
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Not planted cover after osr but may try drilling some oats into the rape stubble next year
This year lest the rape stubble to grow and sprayed off after drilling
The slug pressure for the drilled wheat is low until the rape had died because slugs are lazy feeder and stay on the rape
Last year sprayed off two weeks before drilling after light cultivations and had worst slug damage than we have ever had
With drilling on the green the area to watch are where there are no volentiers because slugs took the rape out or the astrakerb straw mix stopped the rape growing
Will be slug pelleting later this week if needed when the rape has died if numbers observed are high
In 2015 drilling on the green needed no slug pellets
In 2016 the fields with no volentiers either sprayed off or did no grow could not be saved to wet to roll
I am also finding that when it is a bit damp drilling on the after rape green is cleaner and easier than drilling after beans so will plant after beans before after rape
Slugs can also be a worse problem after beans because they have nothing else to eat but newly planted wheat
This year lest the rape stubble to grow and sprayed off after drilling
The slug pressure for the drilled wheat is low until the rape had died because slugs are lazy feeder and stay on the rape
Last year sprayed off two weeks before drilling after light cultivations and had worst slug damage than we have ever had
With drilling on the green the area to watch are where there are no volentiers because slugs took the rape out or the astrakerb straw mix stopped the rape growing
Will be slug pelleting later this week if needed when the rape has died if numbers observed are high
In 2015 drilling on the green needed no slug pellets
In 2016 the fields with no volentiers either sprayed off or did no grow could not be saved to wet to roll
I am also finding that when it is a bit damp drilling on the after rape green is cleaner and easier than drilling after beans so will plant after beans before after rape
Slugs can also be a worse problem after beans because they have nothing else to eat but newly planted wheat