- Location
- North yorkshire
is it a bit early for spring oats yet??
Yorkshire
Yorkshire
It's OK, we have started, and all the corvids are here! You can start now.The problem with being the first to drill: you’ll attract every rook in the county...
... wait for some other sucker to start, and give it a week
Sow deep enough be ok.The problem with being the first to drill: you’ll attract every rook in the county...
... wait for some other sucker to start, and give it a week
If you have blackgrass its way too early.
The reason we grow spring crops on heavy land is to get on top of weed pressure. If you put it in at the end of February it won't have the desired effect. We aim for the end of march/first half of April weather dependant. Remember there's no chemistry for blackgrass in oats now.When is a sensible optimum date if there is a historic blackgrass problem? We have a very small part field that is going into oats this spring and it's a bad one for BG.