Osr and companion crops

[ajd132]

Having not grown osr for a while we may put some in this harvest. The idea will be to zero till it into either stripper header barley or wheat cut high.
The drill has 3 hoppers, one fert one seed one small seeds. Thinking of putting beans in the big seed hopper and mixing the osr with whatever else in the small seeds. What are thoughts and experiences?

 

[Shutesy]

@RTK Farmer

 

[Louis Mc]

Having not grown osr for a while we may put some in this harvest. The idea will be to zero till it into either stripper header barley or wheat cut high.
The drill has 3 hoppers, one fert one seed one small seeds. Thinking of putting beans in the big seed hopper and mixing the osr with whatever else in the small seeds. What are thoughts and experiences?

Buckwheat and berseem clover

 

[Brisel]

Buckwheat is a good trap crop for CSFB and will be knocked off by the first ground frost.

@dontknowanything has multi species companions with his. @Andy Howard too.

I’d be interested in anything that withstands clomazone pre emergence but dies off over winter, with Astrokerb or is outcompeted by the crop in the spring. I have a cleaver and hedge mustard problem hence the clomazone.

 

[dontknowanything]

Buckwheat is a good trap crop for CSFB and will be knocked off by the first ground frost.

@dontknowanything has multi species companions with his. @Andy Howard too.

I’d be interested in anything that withstands clomazone pre emergence but dies off over winter, with Astrokerb or is outcompeted by the crop in the spring. I have a cleaver and hedge mustard problem hence the clomazone.

I'm always reticent to say this, because I feel like it will come back to bite me, but...

We used to have a hedge mustard problem (and cleavers too actually), so pre-ems on OSR were compulsory. Ever since going to no-till establishment (August 2014 IIRC), we haven't needed pre-ems at all.

 

[britt]

I omitted the pre-em this time in rape on land that's been notill for 5 years and have rather a lot of cleavers in it and regret that decision.
The previous wheat crop was sprayed with Staraine.

 

[Michael S]

Buckwheat and berseem clover

This what I did last year, 8kg/ha buckwheat mixed with rape and 3.5kg/ha berseem clover broadcast behind the rolls. Clover establishment was disappointing so I am going to try mixing it with the OSR as well this year.

Buckwheat is a good trap crop for CSFB and will be knocked off by the first ground frost.

I haven't actually heard it said before that buckwheat traps CSFB, is there a source I should be reading? Should I be sowing more than 8kg/ha?

Buckwheat is super frost sensitive, it barely lasted 5 weeks after sowing at one farm where we obviously caught a frost that didn't occur on the other farm about 8 miles south east.

 

[Brisel]

Jim Egan at the GWCT told me about buckwheat’s trapping ability. I’ve never seen it myself.

 

[Michael S]

Jim Egan at the GWCT told me about buckwheat’s trapping ability. I’ve never seen it myself.

Last autumn I did see buckwheat plants with shot-holed leaves but my agronomist didn't seem to sure that they were being created by CSFB, but from what I have seen I wouldn't disbelieve it.