Fallow

[CORNFLAKE]

We have a patch of land that we have grassed down and use as fallow but then usually cut it for silage or hay first week of July. Question is could I cut it , ted it and get it ready as hay this week and then bale it on the 1st July? So I won’t be harvesting the crop until after the closed period.

 

[traineefarmer]

That depends on what you write in your field records, surely?

"No Mr. Auditor, I most certainly didn't ever once access that field during the closed period, I swear on Michael Gove's life that I didn't."

 

[Flat 10]

We have a patch of land that we have grassed down and use as fallow but then usually cut it for silage or hay first week of July. Question is could I cut it , ted it and get it ready as hay this week and then bale it on the 1st July? So I won’t be harvesting the crop until after the closed period.

Don't know, clearly not within the spirit of the directive but I like your thinking, you might just get away with it.

 

[Hesstondriver]

JFDI

I might have, once, gone contract mowing for a neighbour only to be told after I had finished it was as above


Allegedly

 

[Hesstondriver]

Seen as you don't own a topper, you had to cut it with your moco.......................

coincidentally in the best hay making week of the year

 

[CORNFLAKE]

I like the way you work.

 

[Turra farmer]

I like the way you work.

We had fallow checked , on last day last year , no advance warning , if you had cut for hay before date , then subby would be withheld , I wouldn't be risking it

 

[CORNFLAKE]

Probably not worth risking the sub for a few bales of hay. Thanks for the advice. I bet it will rain from Sunday onwards but then again we are desperate for rain so what will be will be.

 

[Digester Man]

Just be happy your fallow period ends in June, in NI it is 31st July !

 

[Farma Parma]

Could be worse you could have fallow under HLS & canna do nowt with it other than top the weeds then spray it
if needed on aug1st no cultivation's for next seasons crop until Aug 15th.
I just make it a bigger area than it needs to be to give me some flexibilty.
Muck Heaps & subbed the headland tramlines.
Does no good to any land leaving it as scrub basically.
Try telling the ECO warriors this tho

 

[Brisel]

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Seen as you don't own a topper, you had to cut it with your moco.......................

coincidentally in the best hay making week of the year

Good luck with trying this one on. Couldn't you wait to cut it until 1st July to be safe???

 

[Goweresque]

Mower went into my fallow margins on Sunday at 10am, by 4pm yesterday I was baling, driest bits only to be fair, but 30 hour hay is a personal record
Tedded once in the morning, then rowed up after lunch. Baled the rest that was down today.

 

[CORNFLAKE]

I was law abiding in the end. Mowed on Monday, tedded on Tuesday and baled today. It’s easy when you have the weather on your side.