26th July today. Barley been harvested 2 weeks. Volunteers greening up. Due to be sprayed off. Would you subsoil rape in. Plenty of moisture. Or cultivate and get the best seedbed and drill. Really asking for a mate. 13 hectares. My opinion would be top down. Roll combi-drill in 2 days.
Oil seed rape drilling.
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Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Very wet here. Waiting for some dry and will then drill from next weekend onwards until middle of the month. Then stop and think about it.
Is your mate thinking about drilling now? I'd scratch the stale seedbed again to encourage another chit and aim to drill in a couple of weeks but that's just my view.
The subsoiler question can be answered with a spade. The forecast here is unsettled for a few more days so if it were dry enough to travel I'd consider the primary cultivation now if combi drilling later, allowing weathering time and to save losing moisture when it was time to drill.
The subsoiler question can be answered with a spade. The forecast here is unsettled for a few more days so if it were dry enough to travel I'd consider the primary cultivation now if combi drilling later, allowing weathering time and to save losing moisture when it was time to drill.
Mr Charisma
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My view is that the earlier the rape goes in the longer you have got to keep on top of the BG till colder weather comes in ,,,,,, last week of Aug will be fine by me
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warksfarmer
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We won't be planting till the end of August / early September. Wheat and spring barley to clear, bales to be made and cleared, muck spread and then 15kg/ha seed rate, rolled and then gate shut till February. If there's a crop great, if not it's cost nothing really.
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With the ruts and compaction caused by combine and trailers ill watch with interest the direct drillers.
Nick...
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- Cambridgeshire UK
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- south norfolk
Looks a lot better than some im ploughing.crossing a track mark from the combine really pulls the motor down on my tractor
Nick...
15kgs? Wow, that's interesting, why so high? Some are sowing sub 2kgs /ha and getting a decent crop! Surely there has got to be a middle ground there or are you trying to smother out bg?
A couple of years ago we had a calibration issue in rape where a few bouts with the drill put about 12kgs on, the whole year was spent looking at those poor strips of rape (the plants seemed to struggle to grow (assuming they were competing with each other for limited resources), and come harvest they were terrible to combine with so many pencil sized stalks
Not only supported trailer well but looks like a lovely thick even stubble
Mark C
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- Bedfordshire
Putting some in today for a mate. 5kg / ha. We are in a big CSFB hotspot so it's gotta go in early. Stubble turnips put in 2 weeks ago showing no signs of damage yet.
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Still time for last of cabbage root fly to destroy any rape crop sown now.
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- Cambridgeshire UK
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
When does that risk tail off?
Have you done that before? Like this idea, particularly on light land which wouldn't have beans in rotation. Will they persist until gal era in spring? Wonder how much N they'd fix
Really? Surely early is at more risk? Our September sown had zero CSFB and others locally drilled 3 times. Obviously pigeons and slugs are a bigger factor in later sown.
Feldspar
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Haven't tried before Ned, did berseem and buckwheat last year which the majority is having again this year. Thought id try some beans as this planting looked good in France last autumn, my agronomist says he's happy and has a plan.