Catch crop advice

[COYR]

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]

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.

 

[Chae1]

The poaching during winter feeding and damage to grass would concern me.