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Cover crop between winter cereals
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<blockquote data-quote="4course" data-source="post: 5581174" data-attributes="member: 2772"><p>interesting effect of the wheat following wheat that was sown with a mustard catch crop( non efa) is that the resulting seedlings have all emerging much faster and more evenly than the sowings either side of it , and the wheat seedbed was easier to make . Even though due to the dry the mustard didnt get as big as previous years the roots have gone a fairway down. I still think its worth doing but a shame that the efa route is not so available as we like to be finished sowing by the time an efa crop can be cultivated , we could have done more and there is certainly a wildlife benefit. A year like this it may have been possible but most years if we arnt sown up or at least on the last lap by the 15th oct it can be difficult to establish a crop if wet on our soil, though, im coming round to the opinion that it may be possible if we stretched our sowing target date by a few days on a field or two, this enthusiasm is tempered by the well established view and lessons hard learned that mauling wheat in after the middle of oct here is a recipe for disaster, but the soil structure improvement reduction in weed and moisture wicking effect of the mustard may allow this and we may have a rethink</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4course, post: 5581174, member: 2772"] interesting effect of the wheat following wheat that was sown with a mustard catch crop( non efa) is that the resulting seedlings have all emerging much faster and more evenly than the sowings either side of it , and the wheat seedbed was easier to make . Even though due to the dry the mustard didnt get as big as previous years the roots have gone a fairway down. I still think its worth doing but a shame that the efa route is not so available as we like to be finished sowing by the time an efa crop can be cultivated , we could have done more and there is certainly a wildlife benefit. A year like this it may have been possible but most years if we arnt sown up or at least on the last lap by the 15th oct it can be difficult to establish a crop if wet on our soil, though, im coming round to the opinion that it may be possible if we stretched our sowing target date by a few days on a field or two, this enthusiasm is tempered by the well established view and lessons hard learned that mauling wheat in after the middle of oct here is a recipe for disaster, but the soil structure improvement reduction in weed and moisture wicking effect of the mustard may allow this and we may have a rethink [/QUOTE]
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