Mustard

[teslacoils]

Rightly or wrongly, we've spent today drilling mustard into a fairly nice seedbed.

At 75ac, if we treated it like a crop, when would you guesstimate it could be combined and what would basic agronomy look like?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Worth doing if you can get some seed out of it. The merchants are charging well over £1000 a tonne.

 

[Flatland guy]

Rightly or wrongly, we've spent today drilling mustard into a fairly nice seedbed.

At 75ac, if we treated it like a crop, when would you guesstimate it could be combined and what would basic agronomy look like?

Personally I would say late September. If it is going into warm, moist seed bed will come out of the soil flying.

 

[deleted user 837354]

I reckon you would be surprised at how quickly it came to harvest. We used to have to spray our mustard cover crops off and then top them, used to be tonnes of seed flying in all directions when I ran the batwing through it.

 

[Devon Gurfallo]

Late August early sep

 

[Regenerator1]

Rightly or wrongly, we've spent today drilling mustard into a fairly nice seedbed.

At 75ac, if we treated it like a crop, when would you guesstimate it could be combined and what would basic agronomy look like?

120 days from now... yield of 0.5 tonnes per Ha if weed free.. at harvest just cut heads off and top the field later.. combine settings as for OSR but tighten the drum a few notches

 

[Regenerator1]

Royalties paid vis Unilever/Colemans in Norfolk

 

[nick...]

Be wary of flea beetle.drilled some a couple years ago as green manure and it came up very well and disappeared very quickly
nick...

 

[teslacoils]

Be wary of flea beetle.drilled some a couple years ago as green manure and it came up very well and disappeared very quickly
nick...

Indeed. I reckon to get a green manure to perform you still need to grow it like a crop.

 

[Rnold]

Rightly or wrongly, we've spent today drilling mustard into a fairly nice seedbed.

At 75ac, if we treated it like a crop, when would you guesstimate it could be combined and what would basic agronomy look like?

Mid August onwards combining yield around 1.6 tonne ha.
Pre em with Sultan.
95 Kg Nitrogen split seed bed and emergence.
You may need flea beetle control.
Oilseed raiser at 4 leaf.
Explicit for pollen beetle.
Amistar at full flower.
Hallmark and Wetcit for caterpillars at end of flowering.
This is precision drilled 4.5 kg/ha and hoed.

 

[teslacoils]

Mid August onwards combining yield around 1.6 tonne ha.
Pre em with Sultan.
95 Kg Nitrogen split seed bed and emergence.
You may need flea beetle control.
Oilseed raiser at 4 leaf.
Explicit for pollen beetle.
Amistar at full flower.
Hallmark and Wetcit for caterpillars at end of flowering.
This is precision drilled 4.5 kg/ha and hoed.

When would "normal" drilling be?

 

[Rnold]

When would "normal" drilling be?

Early mid April give or take a bit. March if it is a kind season. It develops so rapidly I don't think your drilling it in May will make so much difference to harvest date.

 

[Flat 10]

Mid August onwards combining yield around 1.6 tonne ha.
Pre em with Sultan.
95 Kg Nitrogen split seed bed and emergence.
You may need flea beetle control.
Oilseed raiser at 4 leaf.
Explicit for pollen beetle.
Amistar at full flower.
Hallmark and Wetcit for caterpillars at end of flowering.
This is precision drilled 4.5 kg/ha and hoed.

Very interesting thank you