Crazy idea for sowing rape?

[SilliamWhale]

Weather is shocking down here and I'm running out of time to get rape in. Will this daft idea be something I regret?

Rake my wheat straw which has been lying there for 20 days into 45ft swaths and then leave to rot and then seed the rape into the remaining land?


Or ted it all out and drill into it?

All no till

 

[spin cycle]

slug heaven?

 

[Andrew K]

Ted then drill if you can spread swaths evenly.

 

[DrWazzock]

Ted then drill if you can spread swaths evenly.

It’s your only option really. Broadcast seed on and roll if the drill won’t cope with the straw.

 

[KennyO]

Silage chopper through it to chop and spread?
Drill a pass down the side of the bout then flick over with a single rotor rake and drill where the row was? (Could even ted it out after)

 

[Simon C]

I guess you put this question in Cropping to get some conventional answers Will, but you know very well that the rape will be twice as good if you rake the straw off and sacrifice the strips for the straw to rot, Crovetto style.

 

[T Hectares]

When I’ve been faced with this situation I’ve tedded out the swaths and then run a batwing topper over them.
Probably good enough to drill into after that...

 

[SilliamWhale]

I guess you put this question in Cropping to get some conventional answers Will, but you know very well that the rape will be twice as good if you rake the straw off and sacrifice the strips for the straw to rot, Crovetto style.

I'm wondering will it rot down my next year? It isn't a stupid idea though

Another option would be to bale slightly wet give it away for cost of baling and turn chopper on next time

 

[T Hectares]

I'm wondering will it rot down my next year? It isn't a stupid idea though

Another option would be to bale slightly wet give it away for cost of baling and turn chopper on next time

Swaths take a surprisingly long time to rot down, I remember in '06 after a particularly wet spell a 30 ha field of wheat straw that didn't get baled, it was left and baled after a dry windy spell in early March ( for mushroom compost ) and didn't look bad at all !!

 

[ratchet spanner]

Swaths take a surprisingly long time to rot down, I remember in '06 after a particularly wet spell a 30 ha field of wheat straw that didn't get baled, it was left and baled after a dry windy spell in early March ( for mushroom compost ) and didn't look bad at all !!

I have baled wheat straw in Feb on a field that was going into spring barley, so leaving it over the winter for a dry spell of weather didnt alter cropping plans anyway

 

[Mark C]

will, rake it into swaths , bang the rape in , one day it’ll be dry enough to bale and be worth as much or more as the sacrificed lost ground of the swaths.

 

[Brisel]

Ted it out and put the drill through it after a couple of dry days. Are the drill discs new or sharp enough to cut through without hair pinning?

 

[Brisel]

Thinking about this a bit more, a diner chop would be preferable. Do you have access to a forage harvester? Blow the straw across the wind or remove the spout for a good spread. How much straw is there? A high yielding crop through a straw walker combine will mean a big bulk to get through.

 

[glasshouse]

Weather is shocking down here and I'm running out of time to get rape in. Will this daft idea be something I regret?

Rake my wheat straw which has been lying there for 20 days into 45ft swaths and then leave to rot and then seed the rape into the remaining land?


Or ted it all out and drill into it?

All no till

Broadcast it now , do nothing with straw
it will disappear

 

[tw15]

Push it into a few big heaps and a box of swan vestas latter. Anyone else remember the reco straw dozer that was ma\de to push straw from around the headlands to clear it ready for making fire breaks in the straw burning days '

 

[Lincsman]

The rape wont come to anything anyway so whatever you do wont matter!

 

[Fuzzy]

Weather is shocking down here and I'm running out of time to get rape in. Will this daft idea be something I regret?

Rake my wheat straw which has been lying there for 20 days into 45ft swaths and then leave to rot and then seed the rape into the remaining land?


Or ted it all out and drill into it?

All no till

Just bale it and get rid of the slug problem !!!! Compost anyone??

 

[Chae1]

Weather is shocking down here and I'm running out of time to get rape in. Will this daft idea be something I regret?

Rake my wheat straw which has been lying there for 20 days into 45ft swaths and then leave to rot and then seed the rape into the remaining land?


Or ted it all out and drill into it?

All no till

Just row it up and torch it someday when winds blowing right direction.

 

[glasshouse]

Just row it up and torch it someday when winds blowing right direction.

Why row it up?
Burning will scorch the crop

 

[lexion780tt]

If your desperate just combine it again and chop it