Had some sheep in a mix lately, they wandered the field and ate all the vetch first. So something like a vetch forage rye mix would give a lot of grazing and not upset you rotation. Will also depend how you establish your barley afterwards, if too much eye it may make establishing barley difficult???
Personally I'm considering quitting rape to grow grazed brassicas but that's a different story.
we use farm saved w oats plus 2 kg hybrid grass seed ,graze of in feb and strip till beans in march . works well, and cheap to growmy rotation is 30% WW, 30% WOSR and then 30% SBarley.
What would be a good over-winter cover crop for me to establish behind the combine to graze sheep over before destruction* in front of Spring Barley?
* of cover crop, not sheep...
we use farm saved w oats plus 2 kg hybrid grass seed ,graze of in feb and strip till beans in march . works well, and cheap to grow
What rate of oats are you sowing with your hybrid grass? Do you drill it or broadcast?we use farm saved w oats plus 2 kg hybrid grass seed ,graze of in feb and strip till beans in march . works well, and cheap to grow