- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Has anyone successfully used a Techneat Outcast to broadcast cover / catch crop into a cereal crop pre harvest? This is for a 36 m boom so assume 3 spinning discs?
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Outcast cover crops?
- Thread starter Banana Bar
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- Location
- South Northants
I used one last autumn to plant OSR and also stubble turnips.
The outcast performed well. The results were mixed. OSR into spring barley worked better before the weather broke. The barley was cut and baled when the ground was dry and the rape had just germinated having been spun on a week before. It was pelleted ASAP and the rain after ensured it got away.
Any spread into barley that was cut after quite a bit of rain germinated well enough but slugs made a mess of it. Also the combine took out anything it drove on as the soil was quite damp by now.
The turnips seemed less affected by slugs but can still see combine wheelings. This is less of a concern as they will be gone soon to make way for maize.
It can work but you need the weather on your side.
The outcast performed well. The results were mixed. OSR into spring barley worked better before the weather broke. The barley was cut and baled when the ground was dry and the rape had just germinated having been spun on a week before. It was pelleted ASAP and the rain after ensured it got away.
Any spread into barley that was cut after quite a bit of rain germinated well enough but slugs made a mess of it. Also the combine took out anything it drove on as the soil was quite damp by now.
The turnips seemed less affected by slugs but can still see combine wheelings. This is less of a concern as they will be gone soon to make way for maize.
It can work but you need the weather on your side.
Do you know of anyone locally with a Kuhn AGT? I had a neighbour broadcast cover crop mixtures into standing wheat with great success. Sorry - never used an Outcast. I think I'd be concerned about different sized seeds in a mix flying different distances but there are worse times that can happen than outside a cash crop.
For some strange reason broadcasting into standing spring barley never worked as well. It was a much thicker crop than the wheat.
For some strange reason broadcasting into standing spring barley never worked as well. It was a much thicker crop than the wheat.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
I used to spread osr into standing crops with a avadex caster at 27 m
would work for small seeded cover
I have wondered how to feed some cover seed into the chafspreader/straw spreader on the combine
would work for small seeded cover
I have wondered how to feed some cover seed into the chafspreader/straw spreader on the combine
autocast?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Thats easy they do it round here all the time, harvest the crop before its ripe, go much too fast with the sieves set wrong and the drum set too wide and you should get a nice spread of seed.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Thinking outside of the box here,
has anyone ever put autocast on a forager for doing grass seed after maize? Too much compaction?
Saw someone been chopping maize that was strip tilled straight into grass and thought they might be missing a trick if saving passes is the goal.
has anyone ever put autocast on a forager for doing grass seed after maize? Too much compaction?
Saw someone been chopping maize that was strip tilled straight into grass and thought they might be missing a trick if saving passes is the goal.