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Adding a grass ley to an all arable system
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<blockquote data-quote="Tim May" data-source="post: 2053638" data-attributes="member: 1763"><p>We did spring beans last year after a red clover rye grass ley last year dd into it after roundup the round up left the clover behind they acted as a great companion to the beans no need for insecticide at drilling, fungicide later on, or an aphicide at the end, because the clover was still in full flower and there was so much life about the place. We grazed half of this crop as we wanted to see how it would do, and that proved it's worth, we can make the decision to graze or not up to mid july and finish grazing by mid august before the pods start to harded and the crop starts to die down. At harvest we just burned it off with reglone, and flew through it, the clover was already 6" from the ground after a week. We span some wheat from the shed onto this and disced it in with a carrier and walked away, it looks a picture now, we'll put some broadway star on later on after a light graze with the sheep. </p><p>This spring I'll do the same but add vetch to the mixture as a multi crop, and use the vetch as part of a cover crop in further arable rotations.</p><p></p><p>I recon this will be how I'll come out of our 4 year leys, but I think I'll also grow some fodder beet on a patch of the area comming out and use the grass as a run back over winter, I'm not too worried about a bit of winter damage, I could put the beans in with a subsoiler type bean drill (or a claydon) if it looks too bad. It was usefull to beable to have a play with this block of land before we get into taking the main blocks out of grass, if it was possible fo you to put in a 2 yr ley as well then you'd have some thing to play with before you had to do a big chunck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim May, post: 2053638, member: 1763"] We did spring beans last year after a red clover rye grass ley last year dd into it after roundup the round up left the clover behind they acted as a great companion to the beans no need for insecticide at drilling, fungicide later on, or an aphicide at the end, because the clover was still in full flower and there was so much life about the place. We grazed half of this crop as we wanted to see how it would do, and that proved it's worth, we can make the decision to graze or not up to mid july and finish grazing by mid august before the pods start to harded and the crop starts to die down. At harvest we just burned it off with reglone, and flew through it, the clover was already 6" from the ground after a week. We span some wheat from the shed onto this and disced it in with a carrier and walked away, it looks a picture now, we'll put some broadway star on later on after a light graze with the sheep. This spring I'll do the same but add vetch to the mixture as a multi crop, and use the vetch as part of a cover crop in further arable rotations. I recon this will be how I'll come out of our 4 year leys, but I think I'll also grow some fodder beet on a patch of the area comming out and use the grass as a run back over winter, I'm not too worried about a bit of winter damage, I could put the beans in with a subsoiler type bean drill (or a claydon) if it looks too bad. It was usefull to beable to have a play with this block of land before we get into taking the main blocks out of grass, if it was possible fo you to put in a 2 yr ley as well then you'd have some thing to play with before you had to do a big chunck. [/QUOTE]
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