frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
Interesting thought about your P balance. The vast majority of P that you export as milk technically will still end up in a river which is why @ollie989898 nutrient balancing for housing is a real thing.
Maize 2023
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
- Location
- Middle of nowhere, Pembrokeshire
If this happens
there won't be a roundabout safe between Haverfordwest and Carmarthen. I reckon the first trailer to tip over will be on the usual suspect roundabout by Haverfordwest.
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
There gonna clamp the maize near to where it’s grown then haul it to farm with a lorry and fym on a back load.be no different to bringing in blend or other feedstuffsIf this happens
I reckon the first trailer to tip over will be on the usual suspect roundabout by Haverfordwest.
EA inspector said to me he knew results were being fudged but they dont have the money to do the testing themselves. Fair few samples get taken from the house lawn!
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
No idea on that just what natural England told me after a right old drill down.
ollie989898
Member
The biggest source of phosphate is soil loss from fields. Phosphate does not walk away or leach, it is bound to soil colloids. If you lose soil, then phosphate is going with it. There used to be phosphates in sewage as detergents contained them. Probably less of an issue now.
What's in your cover crop?
Anything cheap-ish...
Forage rye, spring oats, fodder rape, fodder radish, crimson clover.
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
Plant straight into it then spray it off
After the wet weather we've had and outwintering some fair-sized cows, even on our light land there's some compaction to resolve.
We'll do one pass with sub-soiler/power harrow combination, then drill in the maize.
Just crop, I agree that could work.
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
Bit of ground we've worked so far which is easy land sub soiler would be a complete waste of time for weeks as it will just smear through and break up nothing
ollie989898
Member
Cripes you did well to grow that behind a crop of maize. Very impressed.
- Location
- somerset
what we have 'moved', has dried out very quickly.
had plans to aerate lots, but to wet, then to long grass, made worse by we sold most of the cows, that would have grazed it off.
had plans to aerate lots, but to wet, then to long grass, made worse by we sold most of the cows, that would have grazed it off.
- Location
- somerset
we just went straight in behind the forager, and vaderstaated w/wolds straight in, most of it grew well, + £60/ac for doing it.
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
Same issue here but managed to relegate it to relatively small areas.
I have wintered on the lightest land and made a hell of a mess, but just drug the drill through it anyway, that was planting sorghum sudan as corn is a bit more sensitive to planting depth.
The paddocks that I’ve done this on are some of the most productive despite seeing no commercial fertilizer at all in several years. It also just kind of leveled itself out after awhile. Can’t even tell it had 12-14 inch deep ruts in it.