Barley pea mix

[North East Crofter]

This years experiment grew a mix of Barley 150 kg/ha (Westminster) and peas 80 kg/ha View attachment 909286(Zero4) as a potential high protein feed for the sheep, worked quite well, need to have a clean seed bed before starting and no sprays that will do both barley and peas, 15 tonne/ha sheep muck pre ploughing top-dressed with 300kg/ha 20:8:12 plus sulphur and 1 l/ha Yara Mancozin at Barley growth stage 30/31 looks to be about 5 tonne/ha total yield, have a sample away to the lab for feed value analysis.

 

[Flat 10]

Nice well done. I think you could probably use pdm pre emerge safely and mcpb post em but likely neither is legal. Looks like you managed well without them anyway.

 

[davidroberts30]

combicrop

 

[Great In Grass]

Good mix @North East Crofter I used to sell that mix when a Nickerson agent

 

[Hesstondriver]

did you combine that? or whole crop it ?

 

[davidroberts30]

did you combine that? or whole crop it ?

combine

 

[Pilatus]

Does anyone successfully plant a small amount of barley with their combinable peas ,to help keep the peas standing for combining?

 

[Hesstondriver]

combine

I didnt see the second page of the photos !!

 

[North East Crofter]

did you combine that? or whole crop it ?

combined it Barley 18.3% and peas 19.8% moisture content, dried down to under 15%

 

[North East Crofter]

Nice well done. I think you could probably use pdm pre emerge safely and mcpb post em but likely neither is legal. Looks like you managed well without them anyway.

a bit mucky but at the edge of a field so if I do it again will do a stale seed bed and the spray off before sowing, Also dint help that I had thought I had cleaned out the drill from sowing bird crop prior to the mix but should have blown it out as the first couple of rows have Phacelia and oil seed radish!!

 

[North East Crofter]

Good mix @North East Crofter I used to sell that mix when a Nickerson agent

Would use the Sassy instead of Westminster as the peas were ready before the barley and we use the Sassy in the main barley crop for malting.