Good grazing cover crops

[Just because]

Personally I think it is to late to plant turnips so normally switch to mustard with tillage radish interval mix . What else is good to graze? Store lambs ? Thanks JB

 

[Will 1594]

15 kg winter oats 5 oli radish 5 vetch cup full phacilia
in front beet spuds

 

[DanM]

Westerwolds

 

[Samcowman]

Westerwolds

With forage rape in as well is what I’m purting in

 

[JSmith]

With forage rape in as well is what I’m purting in

Will forage rape grow much planted now?

 

[Just because]

Will forage rape grow much planted now?

Yes just give it a kick with folar N

 

[Hill Ground]

Another vote fir winter oats here

 

[JSmith]

Another vote fir winter oats here

How many grazings would you get off that?

 

[Hill Ground]

How many grazings would you get off that?

Depends how long the land owner let's me hang around in the spring......

I normally get to oats after mustard is finished / frosted, one hard graze and then it reshoots for a good spray target for them to burn off in the spring.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Winter oats get going in the spring but spring oats will go well into the autumn. Add some radish and big seeded pulses and you have a three way mix.

Are there any considerations for the following crop?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Personally I think it is to late to plant turnips so normally switch to mustard with tillage radish interval mix . What else is good to graze? Store lambs ? Thanks JB

Mustard is no good for anything but holding condition on fit ewes. Never found lambs do well.

 

[Hill Ground]

Winter oats get going in the spring but spring oats will go well into the autumn. Add some radish and big seeded pulses and you have a three way mix.

Are there any considerations for the following crop

spring oats don't stand a frost though

Mustard is no good for anything but holding condition on fit ewes. Never found lambs do well.

That's interesting, I've always got on very well with mustard for fattening lambs

 

[unlacedgecko]

That's interesting, I've always got on very well with mustard for fattening lambs

Maybe a different variety?

 

[Hill Ground]

Maybe a different variety?

Could well be, that's above my pay grade!!!

 

[unlacedgecko]

Could well be, that's above my pay grade!!!

And mine!

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

spring oats don't stand a frost though

No and if they get too mature they will commit suicide. I have had them stay green till the following July by grazing through the winter. No frosts that year.

 

[Samcowman]

Will forage rape grow much planted now?

In Cornwall so should be ok for it.

 

[HarryB97]

Mustard is no good for anything but holding condition on fit ewes. Never found lambs do well.

Looks impressive but doesn’t last long! The slugs don’t like to eat it though.

 

[farmerm]

I've our stores grazing down some finished nectar pollen mix... but I probably need 1000 more to get it down before I can drill wheat on it! I'm not sure about putting breeding ewes on it pre-tupping but I am now reading red clover is not bad for ewes after all.... it has little to no red in it anyway, its crimson clover, white clover, phacilia and vetch. Not sure what 3 weeks on that followed by 3 weeks on grass will do to ewe fertility or am I over thinking it. Rest the grass and bung everything together on there for the next 3 weeks? I will have about 40ac of this available to graze from 1st to 30th September next year, open to offers...

 

[farmerm]

Looks impressive but doesn’t last long! The slugs don’t like to eat it though.

its funny how slugs and flea beetle ignore mustard and charlock but will graze every last adjacent OSR plant to the ground