aylshamslurry
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What row spacing have you put your OSR in looking at different suggestions they range from broadcasting to 60cm a bit of difference in that. Just wondering what peoples thoughts are and why. Thanks
OSR row spacing
- Thread starter aylshamslurry
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It varies to suit the machine sowing it. My subsoiler has legs 50cm apart and the seed outlet drops it in a narrow band either side of each leg but the drill has coulters 33cm apart.
I have seen trials done on row spacing in osr that showed little difference between broadcasting and 75cm rows when it came to final yield.
I have seen trials done on row spacing in osr that showed little difference between broadcasting and 75cm rows when it came to final yield.
12.5cm spacing here this year, have broadcast in the past on the back of a subsoiler/ pigtail and drilled with Claydon 7 inch A share 33cm leg spacing.
Spoke with the agronomist as it is easy to alter spacings on the new drill and he said velcourts had seen no benefit from wider row spacing.
Spoke with the agronomist as it is easy to alter spacings on the new drill and he said velcourts had seen no benefit from wider row spacing.
Half the legs & coulters out?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
About 66 cm here. Subsoiler. Done by contractor. Excellent job. Rooting really well down the leg slots. I think any less a spacing and it would struggle to clear chopped straw, especially behind our combine.
One row of legs. I don’t think two rows of legs to halve the spacing would work as the second row of legs would be head on into a thick row of straw “gathered” by the first row and it would ball up, or sweep over already drilled rows with a thick layer or straw.
One row of legs. I don’t think two rows of legs to halve the spacing would work as the second row of legs would be head on into a thick row of straw “gathered” by the first row and it would ball up, or sweep over already drilled rows with a thick layer or straw.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No offence to those that think its a art to getting it to grow but we just broadcast it out the back of a tined cultivator and seems to grow fine. No fertiliser or fancy micro nutrients.
4 spread plates on 3m cultivator.
Sown early August.
4 spread plates on 3m cultivator.
Sown early August.
Weather was your friend
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Very true.Weather was your friend
The ‘art’ to osr is good establishment. Which for us means drilling it early and making it big to combat everything that wants to eat it. A timely dose of slug pellets at cotyledon on our ground is probably worth 30% of total output, another 40% is pigeon control and the rest getting fert on in good time.
But you're right 10/15 yrs ago we were power harrowing it to death to get a fine seedbed and now it's as rough as you like and it usually grows