- Location
- East meath/dublin
We have the same problem with break crops not being profitable.
So we are starting this year on one farm to grow 1/3 first wheat,
1/3 second wheat, 1/3 fertility building cover crops.
The challenge is how could we hold onto the N provided by
the cover crops through the winter in the first wheat so that it is
Available to the wheat crop in the spring
How heavy is your ground ? Continuous wheat is a runner if you can get plenty of dung or hen muck ploughed down. Whatever dung or in our case cow slurry does the yield is very consistent usually in the 4 ton + range . May take a few years to overcome the take all though.Basically I cant grow break crops, something always goes wrong. Plenty also goes wrong when growing cereals but they generally make a profit. CSFB looks like it could decimate this years OSR. cant remember the last decent OSR harvest. have tried Beans, Linseed, Spring OSR and trying peas this year (they'll go flat).
So if I grew Wheat fb Spring Barley fb Red Clover Fertility ley...
1/3 farm with no output,
change of staffing, machinery,
no slugs, pigeons, beetles
less Nitrogen
less BG chemistry as no BG preceding WW
OR... continuous wheat?