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how long before we're all organic?
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<blockquote data-quote="Agrispeed" data-source="post: 5973522" data-attributes="member: 10619"><p>Don't grow any arable crops, apart from some arable silage as part of a reseeding program. We used to get reasonable crops of triticale and oats, but quality was always disappointing, being in an area with 1200mm of rain, and the same rainfall in August as December and I don't like the idea of growing cereals to feed to animals.</p><p></p><p>After reading Game Brown's book I would like to grow cereals again as part of a rotation with cover crops for our beef/youngstock, but it would have to be in a companion cropping/nurse crop scenario as I want to capture carbon, rather than produce it, and I'm not a massive fan of bare fields, Currently I am buying in 65t+ of straw a year, which does make growing my own quite appealing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not yet - There is a a meeting with a group of farmers here tomorrow. I am hoping I can get some preliminary figures from the sciencey people who are coming. The main project with zone mapping etc ends in a year or so, which should provide some better data, especially on what areas and management captures carbon best.</p><p></p><p>The 3kg/L will drop in the next audit (march-march) as we have laid quite a lot of concrete and increased output significantly. I expect it to end up at around 1.5kg-2kg, but that is mainly due to being more productive than expected. I have some ideas in the pipeline that might make us a bit better, but it's just stuff I'm playing with so I don't know what will happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agrispeed, post: 5973522, member: 10619"] Don't grow any arable crops, apart from some arable silage as part of a reseeding program. We used to get reasonable crops of triticale and oats, but quality was always disappointing, being in an area with 1200mm of rain, and the same rainfall in August as December and I don't like the idea of growing cereals to feed to animals. After reading Game Brown's book I would like to grow cereals again as part of a rotation with cover crops for our beef/youngstock, but it would have to be in a companion cropping/nurse crop scenario as I want to capture carbon, rather than produce it, and I'm not a massive fan of bare fields, Currently I am buying in 65t+ of straw a year, which does make growing my own quite appealing. Not yet - There is a a meeting with a group of farmers here tomorrow. I am hoping I can get some preliminary figures from the sciencey people who are coming. The main project with zone mapping etc ends in a year or so, which should provide some better data, especially on what areas and management captures carbon best. The 3kg/L will drop in the next audit (march-march) as we have laid quite a lot of concrete and increased output significantly. I expect it to end up at around 1.5kg-2kg, but that is mainly due to being more productive than expected. I have some ideas in the pipeline that might make us a bit better, but it's just stuff I'm playing with so I don't know what will happen. [/QUOTE]
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