oil barron
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I do get that. I'm often cutting wheat in September as well.
You can always have a cultivator around to just cultivate and drill the same day if you want brown soil to speed up
shallow cultivating is a recipe for AMG in spring barley. We need to get the ground black to get the heat in it and the N mineralization to get the crop away so that we have it flowering and grain filling during the longest days.
cover crops might still be a good idea, but you only have a window of about 2-3 days to get them in the ground so you need to be able to cover the ground very quickly. Anything after the first few days of September is not going to build the biomass. Then you have to balance the cost of the seed against the yield gain. £30 acre of fancy seed takes a lot of yield to get than back. Maybe just some rape of the heap on continuous SB ground would be the answer. Can call it a crop aswell in the spring if the markets look favorable for that.