true blue 1872
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Great minds must think alike?! These topics were discussed a lot at our farm bench meeting yesterday. With wafer thin margins, when subsidies are out of the equation, poorly structured soils due to compaction, water logging, over cultivation, the majority agreed that some changes needed to be made.
Most of us will be experimenting this year, one farmer, in the group, has a Claydon & has been using it for several years. I’m keen to hire him in to sow a field of winter wheat, after vining peas this autumn and see how everything goes.
He said that he normally got a good cover crop in after winter barley but it was normally getting a bit late after winter wheat, spring barley, spring oats to be a success.
Could cover crops be broadcast successfully into a standing crop, say in mid August? I just don’t think my slug pelleter/fert spreader could throw the small seeds 28m.
One of my uni friends who used to live in a cottage on a farm near Anstruther/Crail said that the farmer had bought a Mzuri last summer & seems to be pleased with it. I think the only issue was when he tried sowing into chopped oat straw but I think the crop has come away after the straw rotted down a bit.
Most of us will be experimenting this year, one farmer, in the group, has a Claydon & has been using it for several years. I’m keen to hire him in to sow a field of winter wheat, after vining peas this autumn and see how everything goes.
He said that he normally got a good cover crop in after winter barley but it was normally getting a bit late after winter wheat, spring barley, spring oats to be a success.
Could cover crops be broadcast successfully into a standing crop, say in mid August? I just don’t think my slug pelleter/fert spreader could throw the small seeds 28m.
One of my uni friends who used to live in a cottage on a farm near Anstruther/Crail said that the farmer had bought a Mzuri last summer & seems to be pleased with it. I think the only issue was when he tried sowing into chopped oat straw but I think the crop has come away after the straw rotted down a bit.