DD on livestock farm

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
150kg of N this time, still less than the kiwi advise but a fair increase on other years.
We have a lot of plants this year so I think they'll use it.

That’s the level I’m on just now, then I’ll put a bit of foliar N on with each fungicide pass.

Have you got any mildew about? Mine still clean currently, as rain has only just arrived, but agronomist says he’s seen fields that have gone white in 3 days recently! Perfect conditions for it just now down here.
 

scholland

Member
Location
ze3
That’s the level I’m on just now, then I’ll put a bit of foliar N on with each fungicide pass.

Have you got any mildew about? Mine still clean currently, as rain has only just arrived, but agronomist says he’s seen fields that have gone white in 3 days recently! Perfect conditions for it just now down here.
No sign of anything yet and no current plan to use fungicide.....

It's also had 2 x foliar N earlier in the season. Went for solid this time as it cab spread wider than the sprayer
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Some photos of the parts of the field of swedes we dd’d Taken recently.

Shows the fodder rape coming on the parts which struggled. Spun on with quad.

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RushesToo

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Location
Fingringhoe
Winter oats into barley stubble, field will get dd beet next April. Hope the oats will provide winter soil cover, ewe feed and shelter for emerging beet plants. View attachment 904739View attachment 904740View attachment 904741
Are your yields going up? KG per hectare / crop- the land and crops look great,
you must be near the arctic circle - so the 6 hours winter daylight is somewhat paid back by the 18 hours in the summer?
I suppose the island location stops major frosts?

That is still some impressive crop growing given the swings in daylightt.
 

scholland

Member
Location
ze3
Are your yields going up? KG per hectare / crop- the land and crops look great,
you must be near the arctic circle - so the 6 hours winter daylight is somewhat paid back by the 18 hours in the summer?
I suppose the island location stops major frosts?

That is still some impressive crop growing given the swings in daylightt.
We will get 23.5hrs daylight for a few nights at mid summer.
I guess you just have to farm to your environment and its limitations. We focus on what can grow through spring, summer and early autumn. I will admit I'm not 100% convinced these oats will over winter but it's worth a shot.
No major frosts no, wind, rain and salt are the winter challenges.
The field above managed 8.06 ton /ha of spring barley which certainly isn't record breaking but we're more than happy with.

The beet this year looks to have a lot of potential, but again it's farming to the strengths of our area, it didn't grow over winter and it likes sand and salt.
I'll post on here the yield of it in a month or 2.
 

scholland

Member
Location
ze3
Are your yields going up? KG per hectare / crop- the land and crops look great,
you must be near the arctic circle - so the 6 hours winter daylight is somewhat paid back by the 18 hours in the summer?
I suppose the island location stops major frosts?

That is still some impressive crop growing given the swings in daylightt.
We will get 23.5hrs daylight for a few nights at mid summer.
I guess you just have to farm to your environment and its limitations. We focus on what can grow through spring, summer and early autumn. I will admit I'm not 100% convinced these oats will over winter but it's worth a shot.
No major frosts no, wind, rain and salt are the winter challenges.
The field above managed 8.06 ton /ha of spring barley which certainly isn't record breaking but we're more than happy with.

The beet this year looks to have a lot of potential, but again it's farming to the strengths of our area, it didn't grow over winter and it likes sand and salt.
I'll post on here the yield of it in a month or 2.
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Spring barley put into a baked stale SB stubble in middle of May. Didn’t think it would chit, let alone grow. But yielding well. One pass with fert, one with sprayer (about an hour before rain, hence a lot of green/weeds) and sh!t the gate.
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Will have to wait to see how well it yielded, as combine spat its dummy out 😢
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field before will have exceeded 2ton.
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer

scholland

Member
Location
ze3
How much is that going to grow in the next few months that far north!?
The irg I'd hope to get 1 light graze over winter then it will handle 12 ewes per acre in late April. (unless it does over winter!)
Oats I have no idea as never done it before but they are mainly in to set up for beet, and grazing is a bonus.
 

scholland

Member
Location
ze3
Do you not find the chitted ceral seed a problem with the IRG? I have one field where the WB/SB (redrilled areas!!) have almost smothered the IRG.
No not really at all. There is a very occasional volunteer barley plant but not many.
Feed barley so we try to put plenty in the tank and don't have to worry about the sample much 😁
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
The irg I'd hope to get 1 light graze over winter then it will handle 12 ewes per acre in late April. (unless it does over winter!)
Oats I have no idea as never done it before but they are mainly in to set up for beet, and grazing is a bonus.
I'm getting very little growth from cereals in green covers down here now.
 

Joe

Member
Location
Carlow Ireland
Anyone here ever DD a combi crop after say swedes or rape? Consider trying it next year but wonder about success of both the combi crop and DD it with the Moore....
 

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