broadcasting stubble turnips

[Chae1]

Has anyone broadcast stubble turnips into a standing crop and how did it do?

With the current dry weather it's looking like we'll be short of feed for winter. We normally start harvest 3rd week of August and have tried establishing them after harvest but it's too late.

Think @Brisel spoke about it last year.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you harvest for livestock feed have you thought of crimping . Works great if you want to plant a forage crop

 

[Lincs Lass]

Boom spreaders work very well ,,mix the seed with any scrag ends of fert and use it as a carrier ,,thats how we we put turnips onto barley stubbles ,,quick whip over with the discs but as you are on about a standing crop ,the theory should still work

 

[Chae1]

I'd try and get a boomed fertiliser spreader in to put It on. Tramlines are 24m.

 

[hendrebc]

I think @holwellcourtfarm has a boom seeder that he uses to undersow grass into maize. Same principle as a forage crop into a standing crop

 

[Jim75]

@beltbreaker

 

[yellowbelly]

We've still got one of these.
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the most accurate spreader ever made. Sadly only 40' boom.
There needs to be moisture on the ground to get them to chit.

 

[DRC]

I remember years ago, Dad got someone in with a plane. Trouble was half of them grew on the neighbours field .

 

[neilo]

We tried it a couple of times.
1. If it stays dry over harvest, the seed won’t take lieing on the surface where it was broadcast.
2. If it rains for a month after you broadcast it, the turnips will strike and do well, causing problems with combining & baling the straw.
3. If it rains a little, and you chop the straw and spread it well, followed by more rain, it might work to get the turnip crop established a couple of weeks earlier.

We didn’t carry on doing it.

 

[beltbreaker]

Done it a few times, Kuhn 40.7 will spred it 22m so there is a wee space which doesnt look great. I have had reasoable luck normally do it 2 to 3 weeks prior to harvest. As said too early they can really get up and cause hassles at harvest. Late harvests dont suit it, but early ones you might be better direct drilling. A lot of luck in it doing it north of Hadriens Wall.

 

[murphy]

We did mustard into standing wb through the slug pelletter when we did the roundup a few years ago, it worked ok

 

[Turra farmer]

Has anyone broadcast stubble turnips into a standing crop and how did it do?

With the current dry weather it's looking like we'll be short of feed for winter. We normally start harvest 3rd week of August and have tried establishing them after harvest but it's too late.

Think @Brisel spoke about it last year.

Can't you plough up set aside after 15th and plant there ?

 

[Chae1]

Can't you plough up set aside after 15th and plant there ?

Most of my setaside is little corners of fields, steep banks and strips next to tree's. Not really big enough to be worth doing anything with. It would be a good idea for another year though.

 

[Brisel]

Has anyone broadcast stubble turnips into a standing crop and how did it do?

With the current dry weather it's looking like we'll be short of feed for winter. We normally start harvest 3rd week of August and have tried establishing them after harvest but it's too late.

Think @Brisel spoke about it last year.

Thanks for the tag. I did 80% of my turnips into a standing crop of wheat in the first week in August then cut & baled the wheat 10 days later as normal. A neighbour did it with a Kuhn AGT boom spreader on a dry breezy day so the seed ended up on the ground not stuck to the ear on a damp morning.

The slug risk was high (wheat after osr, both with slug pressure) so I couldn’t comment on unkind local rumours of a half rate dose of ferric phosphate pellets being applied immediately afterwards.

 

[Brisel]

I will be hiring the same neighbour to broadcast turnip seed again, along with cover crop seed on other fields.

I think this method wouldn’t work as well in a really dry summer. There’s a reason auto casting never really caught on. As above, too big a time lag between seeding and harvesting would risk the crop coming up too high and contaminating the combine.

 

[wasted years]

@Forage Trader is right, whip a disappointing crop off early and put turnips in properly , if in in July you will get a proper crop.
I put some on WB once with fert spinner , it was a waste of time, better to glypho, combine, straw will be dead from spray , bale then rattle in with harrows, bed end,,etc etc, anything to give a little tilth.

 

[Skintagain]

Be a good yield of wheat with a few turnips mixed in