grazing winter wheat

[Devon James]

First 50 kgs of N on the field now. And lambs have come off the last field. Looks savage but will keep belief it will look like the first in a week's time View attachment 945411View attachment 945412

Extase has bounced.

 

[CPF]

How funny was talking about this yesterday ,
and then this morning found this thread . When the family farm used to keep sheep before we all went arable .
I can remember drilling wheat in early September for ewes and lambs for grazing in March when we would be lambing . Dad used to say they would eat the diseased leaves off and the plant would start off the growing season with nice clean leaves.
The benefit was a good clean crop,
and the ewes milked well so got lambs away quickly.
Free fertilising application
It would be grazed down to nothing and it used to bounce back like it had not been touched
I would say we had a yield loss but the benefit to the sheep is more beneficial for the sheep
but we were still getting over 3 to 3.5 tonnes per acre

 

[Devon James]

Ready for T2

 

[Jimbo26]

Ready for T2View attachment 961757

Looks good. When did you drill this?

Would you graze Nov/Dec if it was September drilled?

 

[Devon James]

Looks good. When did you drill this?

Would you graze Nov/Dec if it was September drilled?

This was sown 1st October. Yes I would say so, expect it could be grazed twice. We were waiting for the weather to improve but it didn't really till Feb

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Looks really good. There's a lot of enzymes in saliva to stimulate the plant - and a lot of other benefits eg removing disease-prone tissue and turning it to poo, as opposed to leaving it there and dealing with it via a spray tank mix

 

[CPF]

First 50 kgs of N on the field now. And lambs have come off the last field. Looks savage but will keep belief it will look like the first in a week's time View attachment 945411View attachment 945412

Just wondering how harvest went And how was your yields after you grazed your wheat with your sheep .