2015 cover crops

[dontknowanything]

When was that established ?

August 7th give or take a few days

 

[shakerator]

August 7th give or take a few days

Post OSR or wheat? Any fert?

 

[dontknowanything]

Post OSR or wheat? Any fert?

Post wheat, nothing aside from seed

 

[shakerator]

Nice work

You must have decent background fertility there

 

[dontknowanything]

Nice work

You must have decent background fertility there

It's only that good because of recent conditions. Looked fairly poor at the start of October

 

[Fuzzy]

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If you pull the plants up straight, some are now getting on for chin height. Amazing October

So what is your plan with this going forward to the spring ? Graze it , burn off and drill with disc drill?

 

[dontknowanything]

So what is your plan with this going forward to the spring ? Graze it , burn off and drill with disc drill?

graze, drill with tines

 

[Clive]

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If you pull the plants up straight, some are now getting on for chin height. Amazing October

your going to get a lot of benefit from that, looks great

I reckon your drill does a better job of cc's than a disc drill, the bit of movement helps with N plus your trash clearing

 

[dontknowanything]

your going to get a lot of benefit from that, looks great

I reckon your drill does a better job of cc's than a disc drill, the bit of movement helps with N plus your trash clearing

Not sure about the mineralisation, just look at the plots in the drill trial; no real difference. Trash clearing yes.

 

[martian]

Got an infestation of woollies. Pleasingly they are congregated on the stony top of the hill where the soil and cc are thinnest, l am hoping that they will continue to fertilise this in preference to the lush ground at the bottom. Oats now flowering, I imagine last night's frost will trim them up a bit.

 

[Daniel]

Got an infestation of woollies. Pleasingly they are congregated on the stony top of the hill where the soil and cc are thinnest, l am hoping that they will continue to fertilise this in preference to the lush ground at the bottom. Oats now flowering, I imagine last night's frost will trim them up a bit.

Fence them at the top of the field, silage mow the lush stuff at the bottom, scoop up with telehandler and tip over the fence to feed them?

 

[martian]

Fence them at the top of the field, silage mow the lush stuff at the bottom, scoop up with telehandler and tip over the fence to feed them?

It would make a dreadful mess. Think I'll roll a bale or two of straw out to encourage them to hang out there (at the draughtiest spot in Hertfordshire) and at least get a nice shitty mulch

 

[Beef farmer]

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If you pull the plants up straight, some are now getting on for chin height. Amazing October

If Adam Henson is getting a ton to the acre extra after his cover crop, your should give you 3tons extra. Looks well

 

[dontknowanything]

If Adam Henson is getting a ton to the acre extra after his cover crop, your should give you 3tons extra. Looks well

what???

details please? I'm calling BS already though

 

[dontknowanything]

If Adam Henson is getting a ton to the acre extra after his cover crop, your should give you 3tons extra. Looks well

I've just watched it on iPlayer.

33% (roughly) yield increase in spring barley from growing a cover of black oats & vetch...

NFW

Not even a CC seed salesman would claim that

 

[York]

It would make a dreadful mess. Think I'll roll a bale or two of straw out to encourage them to hang out there (at the draughtiest spot in Hertfordshire) and at least get a nice shitty mulch

Martian,
that's the approach Greg Judy did explain to me while I toured his farm. He would have the hay bales placed where he wanted "fresh seed" and dung to be applied. So some old hay or straw bale, just rolled out, might be just what you need to get the dung distribution done in your favour. They will walk to the lush "feeding ground" anyway.
=n one of the pages on the internet th3ey show how they made step slopes of ex mining mounts green with growing gras and no more sand storms in the summer. Was reminded of the slate waste hils in Wales when I went to Fishguard in the 80's and did on the way back a little history tour on slate mining.
York-Th.

 

[Knockie]

If Adam Henson is getting a ton to the acre extra after his cover crop, your should give you 3tons extra. Looks well

A couple of years back I had 90ac out of a 110ac field in summer fallow drilled with @Pedders Legumix. The remaining 20ac was drilled with WB the previous autumn.
CC was flailed with residue left on top and the WB harvested. The complete field was then drilled with WW (with freeflow) Harvest year 14 the part of the field after fallow/CC yielded exactly 1 tonne/ac more, still noticed a lift in yield this harvest.

 

[Knockie]

Here's a snap of our @Pedders Radtill mix drilled 12th Aug. I guess it shows the lack of temperature up this way!

 

[blue power]

heres my black oats drilled 1st week of September and my chocolate lab Monty

 

[phil]

Here's a snap of our @Pedders Radtill mix drilled 12th Aug. I guess it shows the lack of temperature up this way!View attachment 245920View attachment 245922

I would be interested to see the nodules on peas and vetch, that's where the yield benefit will come from next year
The radish are just for show!