Maize 2022

[ollie989898]

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Cover crop 2022, inter row sown grass. It’s not bad considering the year we’ve had. Poor canopy probably helped it by letting more light/rain through. I will try a grass, radish, clover mix next year

Used a contractor with a vaddy to drill a fair acreage with all the junk seed we’ve left lying around cereal rye, vetch, oats etc. it’s not come up yet.

What will you do with this grass? Keep it and mow it or what?

 

[DairyGrazing]

If I’m feeling energetic this winter I’ll fence it and graze heifers on it in the spring. Less energetic I’ll ask the sheep man off the estate to graze it off. He’ll fence it himself. Don’t fancy trying to silage it really. Recipe for disaster I think.

 

[vantage]

If I’m feeling energetic this winter I’ll fence it and graze heifers on it in the spring. Less energetic I’ll ask the sheep man off the estate to graze it off. He’ll fence it himself. Don’t fancy trying to silage it really. Recipe for disaster I think.

Do you think if you’d rolled the stalks down it would be ok to silage?

 

[som farmer]

Do you think if you’d rolled the stalks down it would be ok to silage?

ever worth the risk of contamination, in the silage ?

 

[vantage]

ever worth the risk of contamination, in the silage ?

I’ve never grown maize so I wouldn’t know.

 

[som farmer]

I’ve never grown maize so I wouldn’t know.

we direct drilled wheat into our maize stubble, discs 'hit' the stalks pretty well, ring rolled behind drill, stalks looked flat, but they have begun to rise up a bit now.
Doesn't matter for combining, but l wouldn't want to mow it.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

We often undersow SB which is cut for wholecrop in July and then we take a second cut off the grass in September/October . The autumn silage is cut much lower than the wholecrop and is full of dead barley stalks but it doesn't seem to affect the fermentation.

 

[som farmer]

We often undersow SB which is cut for wholecrop in July and then we take a second cut off the grass in September/October . The autumn silage is cut much lower than the wholecrop and is full of dead barley stalks but it doesn't seem to affect the fermentation.

those barley stalks are different to maize, they are not far of grass stalks
but l wouldn't take the risk of fudging the silage now.

 

[Will Blackburn]

The maize stalks will be no different to barley, crack on. I’ve wholecropped dd wheat into maize stubble.

 

[sjt01]

The maize stalks will be no different to barley, crack on. I’ve wholecropped dd wheat into maize stubble.

My fear with maize stalks if the ground is soft, that one gets bulldozed out and contaminates the silage with soil.

 

[DairyGrazing]

Do you think if you’d rolled the stalks down it would be ok to silage?

No I think you’ll still end up with stalks and mud in the swath.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

We no till behind corn silage all the time and mow it off with no worrying should we make bales in that paddock. . Don’t even consider it.

 

[DairyGrazing]

Ill mow some in the spring and see.