Is it too early for spring oats?

[farmer dave136]

is it a bit early for spring oats yet??
Yorkshire

 

[Bury the Trash]

No, draish on

 

[Brisel]

No. If you can put them in well, carry on.

 

[PSQ]

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

 

[Outsiderofthree]

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

It's OK, we have started, and all the corvids are here! You can start now.

 

[Still Farming]

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.

 

[cows r us]

If you have blackgrass its way too early.

 

[cotswoldcs]

If you have blackgrass its way too early.

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.

 

[cows r us]

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.

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.