grass leys

  1. APJ

    Harvest 2023

    Let’s start a harvest 23 thread! So how far do we all think we are from starting? Winter barley rapidly ripening here early start is on the cards. First week of july maybe, rape just starting to lose its greenness also!
  2. Clive

    Livestock SFI - what would you like to see ?

    So it’s clear from many other threads that SFI seemingly offers very little or nothing that’s attractive to livestock / grassland so what do you want ? Use this thread to outline your own livestock / grassland SFI standard that both delivers public goods and natural capital for tax payers...
  3. colhonk

    Harry`s Farm AB6

    Whats this AB6 he was on about, leaving stubble over winter and get £522 pounds a hec. Been trawling through dozens of gov. uk pages where they say a lot but typicaly tell you nothing. :rolleyes: :facepalm:
  4. F

    Direct Drilling

    Is there an industry standard for the above term? Nowadays it seems to encompass a wide range of drilling techniques/ systems but other than being called a one pass system cannot see the difference between doing some elements separately. Is hooking up a subsoiler in front of power harrow combi...
  5. Laminated

    Sugar beet price 2024

    What do you think the price will be for next year. Following at 48% increase for this harvest how big a drop are we expecting.
  6. jerseycowsman

    Drought 2023!

    None of the apps are showing any rain for the next fortnight, I’m already worried!
  7. Clive

    Potato Famine ?

    Usually loads of potatoes around these parts but hard to spot a single field this year ? I guess the economics don't stack up vs sales price so areas reduced ? The next supermarket shortage ?
  8. Laggard

    What stewardship option would decrease blackgrass rather than increase it?

    Suggestions please?
  9. C

    Sumo GLS/TRIO points

    Would Trio points fit a GLS leg? wanting a bit more lift for arable land. has anyone done so? Low disturbance not as important, just more grunt. TIA
  10. P

    Ewes and lambs can’t shelter by stonewalls due to grass margins fenced off?

    I am a retired farmer and I see that the ewes and young lambs on grass leys, near me ,can no longer get tight to the Cotswold stone walls or hedges to get some shelter from the prevailing winds and rain due to the environmental grass margins being fenced off!!!!! Perhaps those academics that...
  11. casemx 270

    Grass weed explosion

    Anyone else seeing a big grass weed explosion with this wet weather? So depressing rampant ryegrass and blackgrass in fields that looked clean post Christmas.
  12. Macsky

    Rotovate pre-ploughing, any benefit?

    I’ve got some ancient PP with a good thatch that I’m hoping to reseed this year, would it be worthwhile after spraying off, to apply lime and rotovate first to chop up the old sward, help it break down, easier ploughed?
  13. Digester Man

    Sward rejuvenation

    Has anyone had good or bad success with stitching new grass seed into an existing high input/output silage sward? We have a block of land in its 5th year ley, fairly open sward with no thatch due to the hybrid/perennial ryegrass mix but it has thinned a bit and we want to rejuvenate it. It's...
  14. D

    Charlock Invasion

    We’ve never really seen it before but what started as a small patch on an environmental strip has now swamped 4 acres of crap OSR. It’s a carpet of small yellow flowers atop a small dark green plant that looks like a tomato plant type leaf. I think I will glypho the 4 acres soon as the OSR isn’t...
  15. pappuller

    Hitting the grass 23

    3 tidy days forecast and plenty of staff about, why wouldn't you ?
  16. BFL4437

    Leveling rigg and furrow in a field

    Got a 5-6acre grassland meadow that's Rigg and furrow. Not massive ones but are very close together so can be a pain to mow and tends to leave it a bit long in the bottom. What have people done to level them out ideally without ploughing, thinking heavy disks or something along them lines but...
  17. scrubbuster

    Reseeding Question

    As I have done for a few years now, I sprayed off a grass field and direct drilled in a forage brassica mix. What I normally do once it's grazed off is, leave it a few weeks and spray glyphosate. Once that's had enough time to work I disc it, sow straight away and roll. This year I am planning...
  18. T

    Lamb performance - roots

    Hi, Just after some advice about how people feel their lambs perform on root crops. After last summer, I'd like to get something in the ground as likely need a back up due to increase in stock. We've done redstart (rape/kale) in the past and lambs performed very poorly vs. those on PP, but it...
  19. CPM RSS

    Crawler speed key to seedbed creation

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Advances in power, road speed, suspension and tyre technology mean conventional wheeled tractors are replacing tracked models as some larger farms’ mainline machines. But one Bucks contractor believes the former don’t hold all the cards...
  20. M

    Grassweed attack!!

    I’m sure like many we’ve used luximo as pre em and now needing to spend more of the profits !!!! On a contact Used in the past Atlantis -good whilst it worked Broadway star- now no good here as we have black grass as well as Italian Proverb- didn’t see much diff if any to Atlantis Monolith -...
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