In Field, Straw Chopping, Using a Silage harvesters.
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2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
it will improve the soil. not overnight but after about 5yrs you will see a difference. a chaff spreader on the combine would help. be prepared to see nitrogen lock up some years in strips just behind the combine. it is usually only temporary and mostly in the following winter crops. assaid you would be better spending the money on a better combine with chopper et al..
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- Cumbria
Find yourself an old Mengele SH30 or 40 with as wider pick-up as possible, take the Chute off and make a straw flap to go on the chute outlet (this will spread the chopped straw wide).
oil it well when finished as the surfaces and flywheel will be shining like a sxxt house door
Even better as it has the wide axle and extra wide pick-up.
oil it well when finished as the surfaces and flywheel will be shining like a sxxt house door
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Even better as it has the wide axle and extra wide pick-up.
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- Ceredigion
Straw for firtilizer deal ?
Thanks for the RecommendationFind yourself an old Mengele SH30 or 40 with as wider pick-up as possible, take the Chute off and make a straw flap to go on the chute outlet (this will spread the chopped straw wide).
oil it well when finished as the surfaces and flywheel will be shining like a sxxt house door
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Even better as it has the wide axle and extra wide pick-up.
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spin cycle
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- north norfolk
chopped straw for 25 yrs...never saw any benefit.......grass is only way to raise om matter IMO
sell the straw and use the money to get some grass in rotation.... sow stubble with turnips for sheep
chopping wheat straw is popular around here but really only so they can say they're putting summat back
sell the straw and use the money to get some grass in rotation.... sow stubble with turnips for sheep
chopping wheat straw is popular around here but really only so they can say they're putting summat back
Speedstar
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- Scottish Borders
yes were you live you will get a grant to buy a 1000hp self propelled forager to chop you straw were you live.
Surely better off working with a livestock farmer and swooping straw for muck?
Criminal to chop straw .. esp at £150/tonne
chopped straw for 25 yrs...never saw any benefit.......grass is only way to raise om matter IMO
sell the straw and use the money to get some grass in rotation.... sow stubble with turnips for sheep
chopping wheat straw is popular around here but really only so they can say they're putting summat back
The EU have incentivised it here, in a new Scheme. We said we would do a bit, might put a catch crop in one Field also as an experiment.
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
chopped straw for 25 yrs...never saw any benefit.......grass is only way to raise om matter IMO
sell the straw and use the money to get some grass in rotation.... sow stubble with turnips for sheep
chopping wheat straw is popular around here but really only so they can say they're putting summat back
Don't tell the chap in Eire. Tell the muppets at Defra who are planning to use taxpayers money to support this nonsense via ELMS.
Had some straw last year in rows got raind on many times just went over rows with flail toppor then with short discs nice mulch.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I used to use a Gehl forage harvester to chop trails of straw behind the combine. It was like sawing a leg off. Powered by an MF590 you were in low box bottom gear and even then it would bring it to its knees in a thick wet bit. Then if the wind was behind you it would block the rad in about 5 minutes. The intake would block quite regularly. I would never use a forage harvester to chop straw again. Maybe something like a Browns flail topper / chopper would be better but as others have said you can’t beat a chopper on the combine for all round efficiency. Or bale it and sell it. I wouldn’t be tempted by the sub TBH. Sounds like it might cost as much as it brings in. Just do what you have always done.
snipe
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- west yorkshire
with a 150hp it would be quicker to flail the whole field with a 3 meter machine than chops the swaths with a forage harvester. Plus less fuel. Swaths of straw can slow big self propelled machines down like you would not believe.
snipe
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- west yorkshire
Far more useful. As long as it’s built strong enough.
robin banks
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- Location
- Ireland
100 euro an acre. Is the sub for chopping barley wheat or oats. 60 euro for osr. 100 acres maximum per farmer.
I have put most of my land in for it as no worries about getting paid. Or poor crop with small straw yield. No buyers moaning that it's too dear/wet or wrong colour
I have put most of my land in for it as no worries about getting paid. Or poor crop with small straw yield. No buyers moaning that it's too dear/wet or wrong colour
No Black grass brought in via a Baling contractor Either.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Cue the straw trade over the irish sea