Balansa clover

I have a paddock of stuffed crimson clover too. Sprayed with MCPA and something else to help kill broadleafs. Still some crimson alive, but not enough.
I also have a pivot with corn standing over winter. I spread shaftal on by plane but am struggling to find any plants, just slugs ☹️
Use 2,4D gives the clover a shock but certainly here does not kill it.
Two best chems on grass 2,4D and Starane, never needed anything else.
 
Surely a Daikon radish is going to be little use as a grazing crop? Most of the root drives down through the soil doesn't it, way below where stock can utilise it?:scratchhead:

It depends if your chasing a ground breaker or feed...im chasing feed and something that will kill slugs.

I have a localmfriend who is going to try a grazing turnip this year so be good to see in action.

I dont have compaction to deal with...

Ant...
 

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It depends if your chasing a ground breaker or feed...im chasing feed and something that will kill slugs.

I have a localmfriend who is going to try a grazing turnip this year so be good to see in action.

I dont have compaction to deal with...

Ant...
Would beet grow well enough to justify the expense, for you?
I wonder how compatible radish and soft turnips would be, then you'll have the quantity as well as the cycling of deep nutrients.
 
It depends if your chasing a ground breaker or feed...im chasing feed and something that will kill slugs.

I have a localmfriend who is going to try a grazing turnip this year so be good to see in action.

I dont have compaction to deal with...

Ant...
I know we have posted before but what you and Steel are quoting/ha is eye watering. At full rate here £10- £12/ha (16-20 Oz Dollars) depending on water conditioner and sticker required. Even allowing for haulage to Oz (approx 20 Oz dollars/ha) on small quantities of 20ha, still worth a go if you are allowed to import an EU reg Fert. You need to see if you can get it past your customs then compare the effectiveness. Am now sure I have got the water problem with element tie up solved.
 
Would beet grow well enough to justify the expense, for you?
I wonder how compatible radish and soft turnips would be, then you'll have the quantity as well as the cycling of deep nutrients.

Not sure Pete? Basically zero grown here so will have to bourke and wills it and just trial and find out...i will throw some different varieties in next year into the surge paddocks to see what they do!

Spent most of the day at paddock with balansa spraying yard and trial plot and forgot pics! Its wet...had a bunch of rain...more coming...

Ant...
 
This is one pic from today in my yard..the balansa that came out of the combine early April...its huge..knee high in spots..real impressive...with some grsss and barley or oats in it would be premo...

I need this yard fenced and get some pet dorpers...good feed wasted...i hate spraying...

Ant
 

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I found that out this year, but they prefer it to Faba Beans. Took a while but they ate everything else first then they ate the radishes and nibbled the beans a bit. In the future I will still plant them but at a lower rate and with a diverse mix.
Daikon Radish emits a very pungent (egg) odour when breaking down and I wonder if there is something in the leaf that the sheep don't particularly like?
 
Will a

cow or sheep eat these?

Seed price? From seeding to graze how long? Wet wet dirt?

I see they use for HC as well..also japanese ones like cooler than weather...

I think down here we are missing out...its all ryegrass clover...and rape in Summer...no diversity...

Ant...

My sheep did eat the radish, when they did not have much else.
Seed costs about $10/kg
I planted my Radish on the 1 st March this year and it was established enough for sheep in 3 weeks.
I watered them up and watered them a second time about 2 weeks later. Irrigations were flood irrigation in bays and it did look to be suffering, but survived.
 
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Kiwi Pete

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I have contacted a couple of NZ seed companies selling phacelia and asked for the seed test results for foreign seeds as I need that to import the seed, but they have not sent it. It is fine to import as long as it is commercially packaged and tested seed.
That's handy to know.
Give the slackos a rev up (y)
 
Im going to swing oast bunnings tomorrow and make me up a spring crop cover crop for sh*ts and giggles...

I get dead bored unless i am trialling something...sprayed weeds out of teff today...only thing really making it through was some thistles as i ploughed the trial spot before planting..will try keep it direct drillish now...

The lucerne is gone right off in the wet...red and alsike clover going great guns...will spray with buttress tomorrow before rain i hope to clean up....

Ant....
 

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