Barabas Stubble Turnip (T) seed, new season crop.
Full-leaved late tetraploid bulbing with very good early vigour. Proven very palatable to grazing animals with good disease resistance.
This stubble turnip variety has been very successful wherever it has been used throughout the UK and with some farmers proclaiming as the best stubble turnip variety they have encountered!
Barabas is an excellent, reliable, Barenbrug-bred variety.
Stubble Turnips are very flexible. It can be sown either in a standing crop of cereals, straight after the cereal harvest or perhaps after early potatoes.
Why grow Stubble Turnips?
Broadcast - 8.00kg/ha (3.20kg/acre)
Drilled - 5.00kg/ha (2.00kg/acre)
Essential information
Sow April to June for summer use or July to early September for autumn use, a well grown catch crop can provide you with up to 40 tonnes per acre of palatable feed from October through to December.
Around 20kgs of stubble turnips will be roughly equal in energy value to either 2kg of barley of 4.5kg of high quality hay.
An average autumn crop will provide one days grazing for 1,000 ewes or 500 cows per acre.
Full-leaved late tetraploid bulbing with very good early vigour. Proven very palatable to grazing animals with good disease resistance.
This stubble turnip variety has been very successful wherever it has been used throughout the UK and with some farmers proclaiming as the best stubble turnip variety they have encountered!
Barabas is an excellent, reliable, Barenbrug-bred variety.
Stubble Turnips are very flexible. It can be sown either in a standing crop of cereals, straight after the cereal harvest or perhaps after early potatoes.
Why grow Stubble Turnips?
- Perfect alternative to silage
- Fast growing catch crop
- Autumn or winter feed
- Economical to grow
- Flexible sowing options
- Helps reduce winter feed costs
Broadcast - 8.00kg/ha (3.20kg/acre)
Drilled - 5.00kg/ha (2.00kg/acre)
Essential information
Sow April to June for summer use or July to early September for autumn use, a well grown catch crop can provide you with up to 40 tonnes per acre of palatable feed from October through to December.
Around 20kgs of stubble turnips will be roughly equal in energy value to either 2kg of barley of 4.5kg of high quality hay.
An average autumn crop will provide one days grazing for 1,000 ewes or 500 cows per acre.
Yep end of August and you will have run out of time.