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My new rotation plan
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<blockquote data-quote="Clive" data-source="post: 66431" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>Would like opinion on my proposed rotation.</p><p> </p><p>In short 50% WW 50% mostly spring break - diverse spring breaks with a long cycle</p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter Wheat</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter OSR</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter Wheat</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>cover crop</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Spring Peas</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter Wheat</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>cover crop</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Spring Linseed</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter Wheat</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>cover crop</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Spring Oats</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Winter Wheat</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>cover crop</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Beans (winter or spring weather dependant)</strong></p><p> </p><p>so each break crop only gets grown once every 13 crop cycle - lots of diversity and lots of opportunity for good cover crops to build my soil as fast as possible (cover probably a multi species like Peders no 1 )</p><p> </p><p>I see big cash flow and labour / machinery profile advantages in making the breaks spring planted and also see the diversity of crops as good risk management not having all my eggs in one basket etc</p><p> </p><p>I see excellent opportunity to use varied chemistry to stay on top of grass weeds, I no longer need to worry about residual from WW hitting my break crops and I see little slug pressure in a rotation that only grows WOSR once every 13th crop</p><p> </p><p>On a 2000ac farm there would be 200ac of each break crop and 1000ac of milling wheat - 1 man 1 tractor and 1 drill can cope with establishing all that easy direct drilling with a 50/50 spread of work between autumn and spring</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure we will miss big areas of WOSR - its such an expensive, risky and hard work crop to grow that brings problems to the soil, however keeping a smaller manageable area means we retain kerb use and can probably stay on top of wildlife better ! on a longer rotation I suspect its average performance might well be much better.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>is my thinking sound or am I missing something here ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clive, post: 66431, member: 6"] Would like opinion on my proposed rotation. In short 50% WW 50% mostly spring break - diverse spring breaks with a long cycle [B]Winter Wheat[/B] [B]Winter OSR[/B] [B]Winter Wheat[/B] [B]cover crop[/B] [B]Spring Peas[/B] [B]Winter Wheat[/B] [B]cover crop[/B] [B]Spring Linseed[/B] [B]Winter Wheat[/B] [B]cover crop[/B] [B]Spring Oats[/B] [B]Winter Wheat[/B] [B]cover crop[/B] [B]Beans (winter or spring weather dependant)[/B] so each break crop only gets grown once every 13 crop cycle - lots of diversity and lots of opportunity for good cover crops to build my soil as fast as possible (cover probably a multi species like Peders no 1 ) I see big cash flow and labour / machinery profile advantages in making the breaks spring planted and also see the diversity of crops as good risk management not having all my eggs in one basket etc I see excellent opportunity to use varied chemistry to stay on top of grass weeds, I no longer need to worry about residual from WW hitting my break crops and I see little slug pressure in a rotation that only grows WOSR once every 13th crop On a 2000ac farm there would be 200ac of each break crop and 1000ac of milling wheat - 1 man 1 tractor and 1 drill can cope with establishing all that easy direct drilling with a 50/50 spread of work between autumn and spring I'm not sure we will miss big areas of WOSR - its such an expensive, risky and hard work crop to grow that brings problems to the soil, however keeping a smaller manageable area means we retain kerb use and can probably stay on top of wildlife better ! on a longer rotation I suspect its average performance might well be much better. is my thinking sound or am I missing something here ? [/QUOTE]
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