Min till forage rape/stubble turnips

HarryB97

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Mixed Farmer
Do you chop the straw?

I struggle to understand how a seed dropped on bare ground will germinate and establish roots.
All baled for the cattle. It’s no different to volunteers growing in stubble, the covers look brilliant 86DA2A92-3B94-4341-9522-54EE18872A40.jpeg78231B80-872B-4D8C-8D42-826885838076.jpeg165AA678-BEF4-42E8-8D2F-48E27CF20674.jpeg
 

neilo

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Montgomeryshire
Similar to my set up except mines a knackered old pickup and a slug pelleter dropped on a random trailer ! 🤣 doesn't look quite as professional as yours .......

I’m not sure I’d say ‘professional’, I just bolted it on the deck of a big bale trailer that was parked up doing nothing in a ten minute job.

The designer of the bale trailer is the one that put the brains into it.
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
With heavy rain forecast on & off for a few days, I spun some mustard seed on 11ac of stubble last night with the slug pelleter. True ‘no-till’ seeding.👍


I’m tempted to do the 25ac of stubble turnips the same way, but there’s a few bits that need cultivating after water logging last winter.

That'll make it dry up by Sat evening then.... Decent drop overnight, but drying in the strong, dry winds again!
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
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Devon
I thought it might.;)

I’ve been thinking about building a trailer for the pelleter and even got as far as pricing up parts. Then the penny dropped a couple of days ago.

Disc is about a metre of the ground and it rides well.👍

the gift that keeps giving. Mine is carry an IBC of water most days at moment.
 

daithi

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Wet overnight here and showers following for a few days so worked the compacted patches a bit yesterday, then spun the stubble turnip seed on top this morning.

Saved some time, diesel & metal.👍

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Will you roll it? Any time that I have scattered rape or turnips onto stubble it never seems to take. I thought it might have been down to the residue of the previous herbicides
 

neilo

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Location
Montgomeryshire
Will you roll it? Any time that I have scattered rape or turnips onto stubble it never seems to take. I thought it might have been down to the residue of the previous herbicides

No, too wet and sticky to roll it now.
If it has a bit of rain (as forecast) it will grow, as it does spilt on the yard or broadcast into standing cereals. If it’s too dry to strike I’ll go over very shallow with the shortdisc , then roll.

I did spin 2kg/ac on, where I’d happily DD nearer 1kg, to allow for a bit of wasteage.

I did spin some Gorilla rape on some bare patches in another field (sprayed off old turf full of leatherjackets) a fortnight ago, which was coming up a few days back.
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Put in 20 acres today.

Subsoiled as some issues in field and then sprinkled on with a knockerling air seeder.

Rolled and then 3mm of rain as I pulled out of field. Perfect 😀😀

will put in some fert tomorrow

Got another 50 acres to go in after wheat once it gets cut.

Will be a mix of broadcast as per @neilo and knockerling.
 

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