Min till forage rape/stubble turnips

[mghley]

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.

Why not just mount seeder on rear quod frame ?

 

[steveR]

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

Got caught out years back when we first moved to SU herbicides and saw a dreadful "take". Moved back to older chemistry for fields earmarked for stubble turnips.

 

[neilo]

Why not just mount seeder on rear quod frame ?

I always have done previously, but 20 minutes of unbolting the RAPPA frame and bolting the spreader on each time.
It can sit on that trailer (held by 2 bolts) for most of the summer so I can just hook it up and spread some clover seed as sheep mobs move out of paddocks too perhaps, or that’s the idea. Just hitch up and go…

It’s easier on the bike rack too of course.

 

[neilo]

Broadcast Mustard chitting after 3 days. Heavy showers again today, and a few days more of it forecast.

So far so good.

 

[Jerry]

Broadcast Mustard chitting after 3 days. Heavy showers again today, and a few days more of it forecast.

So far so good.

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You planted it upside down…

 

[serf]

B

You planted it upside down…

That's the first time ever I've seen that joke in its true meaning

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

I always have done previously, but 20 minutes of unbolting the RAPPA frame and bolting the spreader on each time.
It can sit on that trailer (held by 2 bolts) for most of the summer so I can just hook it up and spread some clover seed as sheep mobs move out of paddocks too perhaps, or that’s the idea. Just hitch up and go…

It’s easier on the bike rack too of course.

How successful is broadcasting clover seed into grass ?

 

[serf]

How successful is broadcasting clover seed into grass ?

I found its fairly carp in old turf unless you rag the existing grass with harrows to see some soil and knock the vigour of the grass back. Then you need the rain! Timing i suppose as usual ......

 

[Nearly]

Moore unidrill out on hire 2 weeks ago.

Stubble turnips romping away now.

 

[neilo]

How successful is broadcasting clover seed into grass ?

Even with a Simtech drill parked in the shed, it’s the only way I’d bother trying to add clover these days.
However, as posted above, you need to have soil contact and rain for it to take. After a haylage/hay cut is ideal….. so long as it rains. If not, the seed will sit there until it does of course, as it would if she’d from a clover plant.

I’d sooner broadcast an extra couple of kilos of clover seed per acre, than go to the expense of DD’ing it, with the thistle seed that seems to stir up here.

Part of my cunning plan with mounting the spreader on the trailer, is to hitch it up and broadcast on any bare fields after mobs of sheep have moved on through their rotation. It won’t be particularly effective on the old parkland thatch elsewhere on the farm.

 

[jamesy]

Stubble turnips into burnt off 9m strips

 

[Jim75]

spun some forage rape mixed through the fertiliser a couple weeks ago on some real crap in fill type of ground to try and break it up for grass maybe after another yr of forage. Was getting a bit nervous but had 48mm a week after putting it on and had come up nice after having a look last night.

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Stubble turnips into burnt off 9m stripsView attachment 978681

What are the strips all about?

 

[Grass And Grain]

All baled for the cattle. It’s no different to volunteers growing in stubble, the covers look brilliant View attachment 977969View attachment 977970View attachment 977971

Which crop are you baling?

 

[tw15]

Quad bike and slug pelleted is how we do it , 40 acres an hour output. spin them on then very light disc or straw rake and roll . Been doing that for years 250 acres a year so far we have done 50acres spun on disc and rolled and 65 acres spun on and straw raked and rolled . Why make a big expensive job out of a easy one is our moto , 2000 + lambs to feed over winter this year .

 

[Mc115reed]

What are the strips all about?

At a guess so he can have a grass run back on the each bloke of turnips

 

[jamesy]

What are the strips all about?

At a guess so he can have a grass run back on the each bloke of turnips

Exactly this

 

[neilo]

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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Stubble turnips coming up as if they were cultivated in…..

 

[Jerry]

Stubble turnips coming up as if they were cultivated in…..

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mine showed their heads yesterday. Sprinkled on with a knockerling grass Harrow Friday afternoon.

 

[serf]

Second attempt,
Another sniff of R/up chain harrow and spread on , roll.
1.4 kgAc
Sown 29july , should outgrow the beetle now!