OSR Establisment

[Ladybird]

How's everybody establishing their OSR this summer in their dd system. drilling dates , am I mad thinking we can direct drill in chopped straw with high levels of slug activity ? Thoughts?!

 

[tw15]

Either direct drill or spread rake and roll . the fields for rape this year will have straw taken off on a straw for muck deal just to remove the farvoured habitat for mr slug.
Starter fert is going to be sprayed on at night before drilling to see what sort of job it also does on the the nighttime surface feeding slugs.

 

[Ladybird]

Will you be taking wheelings out from trailers and forklift before drilling or not worrying?

 

[tw15]

Not going to worry unless its bad.

 

[ZXR17]

Will you be spreading the muck on your OSR ground @tw15 ?

 

[Shutesy]

Will be raking stubbles asap after harvest, slug traps out to see what numbers there are. Possibly bait pre drilling and maybe rake again, drilling vigorous hybrids with DTS around 10th of August. Possibly spray with liquid fert post drilling and rolling but not sure it will be a 'hot' enough mix to do anything to slugs if only providing 30kg N/ha. Then hope for some nice warm rain! And potentially pellet again depending on feeding and trap numbers. Early for drilling hybrids but i want it growing away from slugs and flea beetle as fast as possible.

 

[tw15]

Will you be spreading the muck on your OSR ground @tw15 ?

Might put some chicken muck on in the spring .

 

[franklin]

Straw off.
Roll.
DAP / MAP on.
Pellets on.
Leave it be.
Spray greenery off.
Drill 1st or 2nd week in September.
Roll, maybe twice.
Pellet.
Cross fingers.

The above relies on us getting the wheat cut and the straw off in the lovely sunny harvest we have ordered.

 

[tw15]

Been fabricating brackets and fitting a seeder to a new terrastar today.
Going to try it out sowing a few trial areas next week to see the results.
This is for a contractor friend who is hoping to to have options of sowing off the back of it for slug pellets, osr , cover crops , stubble turnips etc in east Dorset, I will post some pictures of trial areas when done and as they progress.

 

[SilliamWhale]

How much berseem clover do you drill with rape with a mix? And who supplies it.

 

[Bob lincs]

Straw off
Shallow 6-8" low disturbance tine
750A drill ( back row of coulters only ) 50kg DAP , 3kg slug pellets , seed in slot
3-5kg slug pellets on top 3-5 days after drilling
Drilling date ... Soon as possible after combine , 2016 crop drilled 17,18,19,August

 

[Clive]

Direct drilling osr for a few years now and had decent crops

Been removing straw mostly though ahead of the 750a but plan using the converted co6 this time and chopping straw

Calcifet helps a lot especially if your chopping straw and using a disc drill

 

[Longneck]

Mine will be going in after oats and barley which I will be chopping the straw, pellet, DAP, then drill asap and hope it grows!!!!

 

[Rob E]

How much berseem clover do you drill with rape with a mix? And who supplies it.

Same rate as OSR seed. Agrovista sell single cut variety Berseem and have done a lot of decent work

 

[spikeislander]

after 2ww and s barley all chopped straw so should be interesting
. drilled either side of subsoiler leg, 100l\ha 14.14.0 in the bands right at the back dribble bars ( I think this helps stops slugs a bit) then slug pellets at the same time.

 

[spikeislander]

Just bolting it together again for this year

 

[Philip Hedeng]

Will DD into spring wheat stubble, straw chopped. May and June's been extremely dry and hot so spring crops seem to mature early.

I spread 5 kg Sluxx in the wheat a few days ago to keep populations down. Haven't done this before, any experience?

Rake right after combine.

Combidrill seed and 350 kg 17-5-10-3+Mg+B with disc drill. Probably a few more kg Sluxx with the small hopper at the back depending on how high pressure is.

Roll

Apply Centium+glyphosate

Depending on how late harvest comes we will apply a few tones of lime. Hopefully before drilling to tackle Two Simons effect. The field received "structure lime" last year.

 

[ajd132]

I will chop wheat straw, cut the stubble as high as possible then zero till with a 1 inch wide Dutch industries point inbetween the previous year rows of stubble. 17:17 liquid down spout. Pellet. No pre-em.

 

[Wheatonrotty]

Straight into chopped barley straw with the CO. DAP on either just before or just after. Roll , pellet, chase flea beetles for a while.

 

[Andrew K]

Rake if necessary, then Claydon drill with hybrid tines well in, use 3" spoons to sow with .May drill companion crop with it, but not sure what to use?
All straw will be chopped, both wheat and Barley.