Catch crop advice

COYR

New Member
Looking at renewing grass by taking cut of hay/silage, ploughing once bales are off and seeding with feed rape or similar undersown with grass to get winter feed crop with grass getting a good start for the coming year. Anyone have any experience of doing this? Thanks Mike...
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
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Midlands
My concern with rape or kale would be the shading of the undersown grass. The establishing brassica wouldn't like the competition for water & nutrients but plenty of N and rain would help. There are plenty who undersow maize with grass.

I recommend you ask this in the Livestock & Forage section too, if you haven't already.
 

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