Broadcasting spring corn.....

[Wigeon]

This is written in the hope that it will induce drought like conditions...

But anyway, anyone regularly broadcast and harrow spring corn in?

I have barley and oats to go in, and the spring tine is going to be the only machine that will go, if it carries on anything like this.. I know, I know, there's a long way to go yet, but just thinking ahead and all that....

Any thing to watch? Ideally obviously a nice warm fine seedbed with good consolidation and a light rain on the forecast and all that.

Many thanks!

 

[Iben]

Oats will be more successful than barley.

 

[Brisel]

Has the ground been opened up already by ploughing etc? You would need a serious seed rate and warm soil so it grows straight away. Hope you enjoy rook shooting too...

 

[David.]

I understand the sentiment behind wanting to crop, its is natural to want to do so, but in less than ideal conditions, and with £130 off the combine on offer?

 

[Nearly]

If you have the seed..... sell it?

 

[teslacoils]

No, but I've put barley into stubbles with a plain vaderstad, and oats into stubbles behind a combi drill. Both were fine but ground was in better condition than this year.

 

[Flatland guy]

Technically not treated seed.

Just use a robust seed rate for some not going in at depth etc and for birds etc.

 

[Wigeon]

Has the ground been opened up already by ploughing etc? You would need a serious seed rate and warm soil so it grows straight away. Hope you enjoy rook shooting too...

Some and some. Little bit of winter ploughing, some worked in autumn, some been in cover crop now flailed off.

 

[Woody j]

If conditions are not perfect its a waste of time sowing spring barley it needs a lot in it’s favour to achieve a decent yield

 

[Spencer]

If conditions are not perfect its a waste of time sowing spring barley it needs a lot in it’s favour to achieve a decent yield

Oats just like plenty of water so possibly just get out spreading now Volunteers in stubbles definitely started moving

 

[Wolds Beef]

Did winter and spring cereals with a Krm spinner and vaderstad carier when we split the farm about 20 years ago. Technically you should not used dressed seed.! But it worked well and yields were on a par with drilled stuff. Trials were done by Velcourt I think and looked good at cereals back then. Vaderstad did some very good books about those sort of techniques back then, I do not know if you can still get them.
WB

 

[Flat 10]

This is written in the hope that it will induce drought like conditions...

But anyway, anyone regularly broadcast and harrow spring corn in?

I have barley and oats to go in, and the spring tine is going to be the only machine that will go, if it carries on anything like this.. I know, I know, there's a long way to go yet, but just thinking ahead and all that....

Any thing to watch? Ideally obviously a nice warm fine seedbed with good consolidation and a light rain on the forecast and all that.

Many thanks!

Tine drill then

 

[Wolds Beef]

Not always the case. The Carier had small tines a couple of rows of discs and a press and if you got it right and the conditions were right it almost looked like drilling.
WB

 

[Clive]

This is written in the hope that it will induce drought like conditions...

But anyway, anyone regularly broadcast and harrow spring corn in?

I have barley and oats to go in, and the spring tine is going to be the only machine that will go, if it carries on anything like this.. I know, I know, there's a long way to go yet, but just thinking ahead and all that....

Any thing to watch? Ideally obviously a nice warm fine seedbed with good consolidation and a light rain on the forecast and all that.

Many thanks!

will all depend on the weather over the following month

if it comes dry it would be an utter disaster

a complete gamble

also remember you can’t broadcast dressed seed

 

[Bman]

If you can make sure you can ring roll the crop at some point you will not see any difference

 

[yellow belly]

Light land tines heavy land disc coulter
plant when land is dry enough to stand the next week weather

 

[balerman]

If conditions are not perfect its a waste of time sowing spring barley it needs a lot in it’s favour to achieve a decent yield

Totally agree.

 

[copse]

If you can’t get it in properly in the spring I should forget it really rather then mess around doing a half arsed job.

 

[Gong Farmer]

No experience of broadcasting spring cereals but barley in general doesn't like the concept. Also worth remembering that a few years back with a wet spring, many of the late-April sown barley crops were the best some growers had ever had.

 

[Wombat]

No experience of broadcasting spring cereals but barley in general doesn't like the concept. Also worth remembering that a few years back with a wet spring, many of the late-April sown barley crops were the best some growers had ever had.

Last year was about as wet and late as it’s been recently. It was a bloody awful spring