cropping wheat volunteers.

[Neddy flanders]

walked some very squelchy wheat stubble that had been cultivated and levelled in late September. very even crop of wheat volunteers.

what would it yield (compared to a late sown bean or oat) if
a) BYDV hasn't been an issue?
b) I can take out a proportion of the large blackgrass plants there with a massive atlantis type product.

drilling it before mid March looks very unlikely.

 

[Shughie McFee]

it's no till jim, but not as we know it

 

[Brisel]

How many wheat plants/m2? Second or third wheat? What variety?

Worth considering to take to harvest IMO if you can sort the blackgrass, given the likely shortage of wheat & glut of other new crop cereals.

 

[solo]

I had some mouse dropping wheat grains blown out of the combine back in 2012 that was subsoiled and then left alone until late spring, Cambridge rolled, one dollop of fertiliser and a single blw and fungicide spray. It went on to do 3t/acre. Most profitable field that year. Not been repeated since as not pretty to look at.

 

[JCfarmer]

I had some mouse dropping wheat grains blown out of the combine back in 2012 that was subsoiled and then left alone until late spring, Cambridge rolled, one dollop of fertiliser and a single blw and fungicide spray. It went on to do 3t/acre. Most profitable field that year. Not been repeated since as not pretty to look at.

From an acorn a mighty OAK grows.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I had some mouse dropping wheat grains blown out of the combine back in 2012 that was subsoiled and then left alone until late spring, Cambridge rolled, one dollop of fertiliser and a single blw and fungicide spray. It went on to do 3t/acre. Most profitable field that year. Not been repeated since as not pretty to look at.

If it was the most profitable, who cares what it looks like ?

 

[solo]

If it was the most profitable, who cares what it looks like ?

Not repeated as it was extremely rough to travel with fertiliser spreader, sprayer and combine. Sprayer booms wouldn't have lasted long doing that regularly, not to mention the operator... me

 

[Flat 10]

I had some mouse dropping wheat grains blown out of the combine back in 2012 that was subsoiled and then left alone until late spring, Cambridge rolled, one dollop of fertiliser and a single blw and fungicide spray. It went on to do 3t/acre. Most profitable field that year. Not been repeated since as not pretty to look at.

That’s impressive. I thought you would get half that at the most. Glad to hear it worked out.

 

[Nearly]

It's not going to do any worse than any other struggling crop that hasn't been sprayed.
Establishment cost almost zero so a bit left for spend on effective bg control.

 

[Flat 10]

@Bramble

 

[Princess Pooper]

We harvested a field of volunteer ww a couple of years ago. Spent not a single penny on it apart from the combine and baler, because it was overwintered stubble that then just sat there. Just asked the combine driver to avoid the worst weedy bits. Was a commendable 2.5t/acre plus a useful straw crop - seem to recall about 35 5ft round bales off about 12 baled acres. Good deep clays and gets a few doses of fym in the rotation. Not farm assured and home fed to the cows. No bg issues on this farm.

 

[David.]

It used to be said that if you can chuck your hat down in February and land it on a wheat plant, there's enough to do 3 ton.*
BG and BYDV would be the only worry for me.

* Rule probably requires reduction in yield expectations for use in Mexico.