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Regen Ag General Discussion
Groundswell Show 2022
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<blockquote data-quote="Secret Agronomist" data-source="post: 8208258" data-attributes="member: 153120"><p>I've never had the chance to go yet but would be interested to hear peoples thoughts on growing root crops within a regen system in Perthshire.</p><p>I try to follow regen principles;</p><p>1) Keep soil covered as much as possible (does sowing wheat after spuds in november count?, any fields that we don't get into winter crop are either left as stubble, sown with a cover or if after spuds roughly cultivated across the slope and left)</p><p>2) Incorporate cover crops (my aim is that everything that is a spring crop gets something even if it is just rye broadcast and worked in)</p><p>3) Incorporate animals (I've started getting some covers grazed by a local sheep guy, but it's easier said than done, getting enough biomass to make it interesting for him with a september sowing date is the difficult bit)</p><p>4) grow a diverse range of crops (wheat, barley, rye, potatoes, carrots, does using legumes and radish etc in the cover crop count as diversity?)</p><p>5) Reduce soil disturbance( this is where the wheels fall of the wagon, with stoney soils separation is the only way and TBH because we have predominantly light soils we bed till very little, usual method is plough, deep cultivate, ridge, destone, plant). For cereals we plough and press then drill, this helps with weed control and burying ergot which is a big thing with rye.</p><p></p><p>To improve things I could;</p><p>Diversify crops by growing a legume for harvest (beans most likely but late harvest is a pain after we have spent the autumn at spuds)</p><p>Try sowing some vetch with rye this backend to provide some diversity and possibly some N, my idea is to not use an autumn herbicide and kill the vetch at the T1 timing maybe, would that work?</p><p>Direct drill some crops, this is a tricky one, the rotation doesn't lend itself to this really, I don't grow rape because of clubroot and oats don't seem to do well on the light land, we need straw for covering carrots but at least it means I'm keeping carbon and nutrients on the farm.</p><p></p><p>Any other thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Secret Agronomist, post: 8208258, member: 153120"] I've never had the chance to go yet but would be interested to hear peoples thoughts on growing root crops within a regen system in Perthshire. I try to follow regen principles; 1) Keep soil covered as much as possible (does sowing wheat after spuds in november count?, any fields that we don't get into winter crop are either left as stubble, sown with a cover or if after spuds roughly cultivated across the slope and left) 2) Incorporate cover crops (my aim is that everything that is a spring crop gets something even if it is just rye broadcast and worked in) 3) Incorporate animals (I've started getting some covers grazed by a local sheep guy, but it's easier said than done, getting enough biomass to make it interesting for him with a september sowing date is the difficult bit) 4) grow a diverse range of crops (wheat, barley, rye, potatoes, carrots, does using legumes and radish etc in the cover crop count as diversity?) 5) Reduce soil disturbance( this is where the wheels fall of the wagon, with stoney soils separation is the only way and TBH because we have predominantly light soils we bed till very little, usual method is plough, deep cultivate, ridge, destone, plant). For cereals we plough and press then drill, this helps with weed control and burying ergot which is a big thing with rye. To improve things I could; Diversify crops by growing a legume for harvest (beans most likely but late harvest is a pain after we have spent the autumn at spuds) Try sowing some vetch with rye this backend to provide some diversity and possibly some N, my idea is to not use an autumn herbicide and kill the vetch at the T1 timing maybe, would that work? Direct drill some crops, this is a tricky one, the rotation doesn't lend itself to this really, I don't grow rape because of clubroot and oats don't seem to do well on the light land, we need straw for covering carrots but at least it means I'm keeping carbon and nutrients on the farm. Any other thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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