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<blockquote data-quote="warksfarmer" data-source="post: 7800586" data-attributes="member: 192"><p>Tried it about 12 years ago. Yield was extremely variable from literally nothing upto 5t/acre. Average was 3t/acre. Weed control extremely poor even though it had the full works. Putting it under plastic speeds up the whole process so you aren’t harvesting late in crap conditions but adds another cost.</p><p>You’ll struggle to get milling wheat quality after it because of mycotoxin levels.</p><p>And don’t underestimate the volume of trash afterwards. At the time we ended up discing then ploughing to try to get rid of it due to the mycotoxin risk but it didn’t work.</p><p>We put it on a heavier clay soil and in hindsight it would of been better on a loam soil.</p><p>The seed is very expensive and it mines your soil of nutrients.</p><p></p><p>It would have to be serious money to do it again and I think all these people jumped into it the last 2-3 years are going to have a shock when they realise what it’s doing to the soil through over working of it to grow it but also nutrient removal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="warksfarmer, post: 7800586, member: 192"] Tried it about 12 years ago. Yield was extremely variable from literally nothing upto 5t/acre. Average was 3t/acre. Weed control extremely poor even though it had the full works. Putting it under plastic speeds up the whole process so you aren’t harvesting late in crap conditions but adds another cost. You’ll struggle to get milling wheat quality after it because of mycotoxin levels. And don’t underestimate the volume of trash afterwards. At the time we ended up discing then ploughing to try to get rid of it due to the mycotoxin risk but it didn’t work. We put it on a heavier clay soil and in hindsight it would of been better on a loam soil. The seed is very expensive and it mines your soil of nutrients. It would have to be serious money to do it again and I think all these people jumped into it the last 2-3 years are going to have a shock when they realise what it’s doing to the soil through over working of it to grow it but also nutrient removal. [/QUOTE]
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