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- northumberland
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OSR - Leave it to ripen naturally?
- Thread starter DrWazzock
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- northumberland
All done with podstick on Wednesday when still green to flatten down tramlines, hopefully not as much knocked out when roundup goes on laterTry 260ac
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- Dorset/Wilts
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- Lincolnshire
I liked the swathing system to some extent but when ripening is very uneven I did lose some in the dry areas while cutting green patches too early. My agronomist always reckoned that glypho was less likely to lead to green or red seed as it was a slow kill and didn’t shock the plant as much as cutting it off. The glypho also cleans up perennial rubbish of course.
Combining was so much easier with the draper pickup provided the swath hadn’t had weeks of rain.
My old fortschritt shelbourne swather went to Poland. Somebody got a bargain there though it was showing it’s age. The last season I used it the boss broke off the end of one of the lift rams. Welded it back on in situ and it lasted the season. Tyres were nearly shot and old Belarus engine knocked and sweated. So I sold it while it still had a bit more than scrap value. I now use a Polish made bed extension on my dommy.
Makes you wonder though. Best yield we ever had was cutting direct with MF525 with basic bed. 36 cwt/acre with Bienvenu.
Combining was so much easier with the draper pickup provided the swath hadn’t had weeks of rain.
My old fortschritt shelbourne swather went to Poland. Somebody got a bargain there though it was showing it’s age. The last season I used it the boss broke off the end of one of the lift rams. Welded it back on in situ and it lasted the season. Tyres were nearly shot and old Belarus engine knocked and sweated. So I sold it while it still had a bit more than scrap value. I now use a Polish made bed extension on my dommy.
Makes you wonder though. Best yield we ever had was cutting direct with MF525 with basic bed. 36 cwt/acre with Bienvenu.
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- Lincolnshire
My father was an early adopter of OSR. In those days we seemed go get some decent yields. We’d no chopper on the combine so one of my summer jobs was driving across the straw trails with a MF65 and Robin Hood wuffler kicking the straw about ready to be ploughed in.
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- Lincolnshire
It’s all sprayed off now. Varied from too green to so dead it’s ready for combining. Fudging nightmare. Easier to assess once you’ve driven over the whole field with the sprayer. Can’t really assess properly just trying to walk in from the edges. Would probably have been a good use for a drone to fly over it and at least assess greenness. Assessing by opening pods and looking at seed is as good as useless in these drought ravaged crops due to extreme variability across the field.
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- Haute Vienne, France
We were cuting direct cut osr at 7% moisture yesterday. You could barely see for dust though the stubble is pretty green under the crop. The only thing alive at cuting height is cow parsley that seems to love wrapping round the reel on the combine if you so much as touch it.
When did you plant that?
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- Northumberlandia
never go back to swathing weather far too iffy up here for that task.
it worked 20yr ago seemingly but not so brave now.
Standing OSR rarely an issue if you cant get at it, quickest crop to harvest tho after rain.
Swathed stuff be the last you could look at after Rain & it just gets closer n closer to the ground the more rain it gets.
it worked 20yr ago seemingly but not so brave now.
Standing OSR rarely an issue if you cant get at it, quickest crop to harvest tho after rain.
Swathed stuff be the last you could look at after Rain & it just gets closer n closer to the ground the more rain it gets.
SilliamWhale
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- Lincolnshire
We had a wet fortnight after swathing one year when the bottom of the swath rotted. We only just salvaged it. That’s what put us off.
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- Haute Vienne, France
I would swap my early harvest for your yields. Its actually quite late for us to be harvesting osr its often finished in June. Harvesting is slow with this changeable weather though I saw some wheat that had been cut a couple of days ago. We are stopped again today after rain this morning. We have feeders full of hay out for the cows but they are not interested at the moment as there is still plenty of grass , thats not normal for this time of year.
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- Lincolnshire
I think brown seeds only come after swathing, roundup does not work that well to do that
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- Dorset/Wilts
Now opting to dessciate. Crop even but very tall and strong. Still too many green seeds to dessciate yet. Another week.
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- northumberland
Can’t remember exactly but it was quite late as it was too dry, then we couldn’t wait any longer and blitzed it all in in 2days with 3 drills
ollie989898
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I see on youtube there is someone in the North of the UK who has a full blown Macdon swather and header or at least that is what I managed to conclude. I should think near 40 foot of crop thrown into a single swath is a fair lump sat in the field.
Ah yes 30 degree temps and crawling along at 1kph as it won’t feed, that was me last year, it got dark eventually and got up to an almost dizzy 3kph so kept going till it was done.
