- Location
- Bedfordshire
I think you have to take it field by field. On the heavy clay Winter Wheat will work until the blackgrass gets to unmanageable levels, the slightly lighter ground will probably need a break. Spring Wheat will probably have a place to break the blackgrass, and possibly spring barley, or a cover crop fallow. We can only do pulses once every 6/8 years IME, OSR is such a risk, and winter linseed can only be grown where there is minimal BG. What else is there? If you are going to do a cover crop fallow then it needs an autumn and a then spring/summer cover so that we can spray glypho on the BG mid season IMO. Perhaps we go WW,WW,SW,Bns,WW,WW,SBarl,Fallow.Looks okay here. Cheaply grown. Looks like a good margin. Will try again this year with farm saved seed, nothing to lose.
@snarling bee continuous milling wheat including spring wheat?
if costs are at the level I think we should be aiming for it does make everything profitable