Just wondering on the above as never grown them before... given ok/normal weather of course!
If you sow IRG or a Hybrid in July/Aug can you expect to get a silagable cut off it by Oct?
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JMTHORNLEY
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If everything was near enough perfect and soil was in top health I see no reason as to why you couldn’t mow. I would suggest not as it seems a bit of an old wives tale but stacks up in my experience, but try not to mow in its first year. Done it plenty of times but always found the crop struggles the following spring and never really get the ground cover I’d hoped for. But given the damper springs and drier back ends we’ve had here over the last few years I’m going to try a spring reseed after a autumn root crop and graze for the rest of the season.
Sorry way off track there, given perfect conditions yes, crack on
Sorry way off track there, given perfect conditions yes, crack on
M-J-G
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digger64
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October is getting late to cut silage but would depend where you are i suppose.
d williams
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Moistures your answer if you get rain then yes no problem
multi power
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Why would you want to cut a new reeseed? It needs to be grazed with sheep
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This is myth.
New reseeds that are spring sown will grow like a plague because they have experienced no vernalisation.
West Midlands, 350ft above sea level, 30 inch rainfall per annum, medium clay loam soil type with the odd pocket of heavy clay.
I'm hopefully going to attempt to direct drill into wheat stubble, I'm going to be tight for forage this next year, so hoping this idea may relieve some pressure of silage stocks.
You may get a light cut but it will be all leaf cos it won’t put a seed head up in the year of sowing.Which means it will be pretty soggy stuff.Westewolds is the only one which will go to seed in the first year.
Ah I see, but it should be reasonable high in protein though if it's all leaf?
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Go with Westerwolds then. If it gets away well ready to cut in 10 to 12 weeks .
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Because it's too risky with weather?
Salesmen say 10 weeks , never happened here , and that's spring sown
M-J-G
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I guess if you're far enough south to have wheat off in July you'll probably get a cut of grass, but it would be light, but as has already been said cutting so soon won't help the sward.
I generally try not to cut grass until it's had a winter under its belt, even if it's spring sown.
multi power
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rubbish, do you understand how tillering works
multi power
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You would be better grazing it early in the spring
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Customer of ours planted a Hybrid 3x3 ley sown 28th July, we baled it on 28th September - surprisingly what we had off it as well.
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