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Cover crop oats
- Thread starter Bob lincs
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- the brecks norfolk
I've got some poor winter barley behind spring barley this year.
It was pigtailed twice and then terra disced Infront of the drill but where last year's swaths of straw where the barley went yellow about Xmas time which I put down to lack of N from the chaff using the N to break but as the spring has progressed it has got worse despite early N and tissue tests showing nothing is lacking in the poorer parts.
The barley is very yellow still and stunted, the whole plant above and below ground is much smaller yellow and stunted.
I would have thought the cultivation would have stopped this happening, it also had 10 ton acre pig much spread on the stubble.
It was pigtailed twice and then terra disced Infront of the drill but where last year's swaths of straw where the barley went yellow about Xmas time which I put down to lack of N from the chaff using the N to break but as the spring has progressed it has got worse despite early N and tissue tests showing nothing is lacking in the poorer parts.
The barley is very yellow still and stunted, the whole plant above and below ground is much smaller yellow and stunted.
I would have thought the cultivation would have stopped this happening, it also had 10 ton acre pig much spread on the stubble.
Never fancied oats / floor sweepings / rye as a cover crop. Is it not like growing 2 cereal crops in one year ? Having loads of trouble trying to establish mustard after barley. It won't grow in the combine tailings at all. But it's cheap...........
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Cover need spraying off early in the spring
4to6 weeks before drilling
I also put at least half the nitrogen on well before drilling in the form of urea which is not easily leached
beans can be drilled on the green
I also find that in a dry spring a layer of chopped straw and dying cover helps keep the moisture in the top 50 mm of soil where as bare soil dries out too much fine if you can drill in the 3 days it is just right
On heavy land if it is too wet just wait drilling when the soil is too plastercene always leads to poor crops
The big advantage of later planting and a layer of straw / cover is very low weeds and low disease
I have grown big crops of beans from mid April planting with no herbicide and one rust fungicide
4to6 weeks before drilling
I also put at least half the nitrogen on well before drilling in the form of urea which is not easily leached
beans can be drilled on the green
I also find that in a dry spring a layer of chopped straw and dying cover helps keep the moisture in the top 50 mm of soil where as bare soil dries out too much fine if you can drill in the 3 days it is just right
On heavy land if it is too wet just wait drilling when the soil is too plastercene always leads to poor crops
The big advantage of later planting and a layer of straw / cover is very low weeds and low disease
I have grown big crops of beans from mid April planting with no herbicide and one rust fungicide
I get my best wheat after spring oats, but that’s with the copious straw and stubble ploughed down.
This year I’ve spun spring oats (with some sunflower and phacelia) on to an area of failed OSR, to be sprayed off at OSR desiccation timing and min tilled into wheat.
This thread isn’t filling me with confidence.
This year I’ve spun spring oats (with some sunflower and phacelia) on to an area of failed OSR, to be sprayed off at OSR desiccation timing and min tilled into wheat.
This thread isn’t filling me with confidence.