Forage crop ideas for late sowing

[Keepers]

Would broadcasting rape/turnips into the standing crop, pre-harvest, work as a way of establishing the crop earlier in august?

yes that probably would have been a good idea! I’ll discuss and maybe an option for next year, I think the crop has too thick a canopy and too many areas of it laid flat to broadcast seed into now... or so I’ve been told by the agronomist anyway

 

[Keepers]

Just be aware that if you introduce Annual Ryegrass it can be more difficult to kill after and will need burning off , Rye although more expensive will grow at lower temperatures when sown later
When planting later it's a better option to plant a mix , no one knows what the autumn weather will be like but planting a mix gives options , don't put all your eggs in one so to speak

I think this is most likely the way we are going to go, a mix planted late.. surely then at least something in the mix should be successful?Rather than a whole crop of far too cold turnips not wanting to grow on at all

 

[Estate fencing.]

Would broadcasting rape/turnips into the standing crop, pre-harvest, work as a way of establishing the crop earlier in august?

We used to do quite a lot of that with avidex on the bateman, got a feeling we did it about now just before a thunderstorm, it worked great and we had some really go crops after late cut winter wheat. But pressure to spray the wheat off before harvest meant that it had to be stopped, we where being used as a reason the black grass was so bad (bloody tractor drivers!)

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I think this is most likely the way we are going to go, a mix planted late.. surely then at least something in the mix should be successful?Rather than a whole crop of far too cold turnips not wanting to grow on at all

We doing it already , most of the orders gone out today are a 3 way mix , Rape can be very sensitive to wet conditions

 

[tinsheet]

Just came across this

 

[Cowmansam]

We doing it already , most of the orders gone out today are a 3 way mix , Rape can be very sensitive to wet conditions View attachment 974120

You not got a brush man

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You not got a brush man

It's a farmers office [emoji1787]

 

[cowboysupper]

This did this for years in some parts of the country. Broadcast ahead of cutting, get the straw off and before the dust had settled the stuff would be emerging.

What distance can the seed be broadcast?

 

[ollie989898]

What distance can the seed be broadcast?

It would depend on the method but I certainly remember someone establishing forage crops with an autocast system on the combine so it would have matched his header width.

I guess it would be possible to broadcast the seed far enough from the tramlines alone if your sprayer had the right applicators at the right intervals?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

 

[ollie989898]

Am I right in thinking that in some parts of the country they used to broadcast seed into standing crops with aeroplanes at one time as well?

 

[JSmith]

My old man was doing that fifty years ago, an the old boy next to me who worked for dad all his life has broadcast hundreds of acres of turnip seed into standing corn with an aero seed fiddle!! Said that was a right fecker with crop at waist height!! Them were the days

 

[Sid]

We doing it already , most of the orders gone out today are a 3 way mix , Rape can be very sensitive to wet conditions View attachment 974120

Do you mix that yourself for customers?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Do you mix that yourself for customers?

No