Hartwig
Member
- Location
- Scheggerott, Germany
As far as I understand it, the pasture cropping Colin Seis uses in AUS depends on the fact that the pasture there gets to a dormant stage due to the climate which leaves the opportunity to direct drill an arable crop into the pasture and harvest it before the pasture comes back from dormancy !?
As here in central europe we don`t have such stages with dormancy, could we find a time and a way to get a crop growing in a pasture knocked back somehow to get the DDed crop growing ahead of the pasture ??
Would it work to shave the pasture to the ground just for the reason to leave it longer to regenerate ??
I`m thinking about grazing a pasture over winter and in the early spring DDing beans or even oats into this pasture. Shaving the grass down to the ground just before the crop emerges. As the pasture got no fertilizer then it might be really slow to regenerate ?? The beans don`t need N and would be happy growing together with a grass, oats could get all needed nutrients down the spout with the drill and are good competitors against grass weeds.
Comes harvest time, it could be a problem with the beans as the grass might go crazy the last weeks ?? Oats could be stripper headed to leave the grass alone. When the combine has left the field, it can be grazed again.
Could that work ?? What else can you think about ??
As here in central europe we don`t have such stages with dormancy, could we find a time and a way to get a crop growing in a pasture knocked back somehow to get the DDed crop growing ahead of the pasture ??
Would it work to shave the pasture to the ground just for the reason to leave it longer to regenerate ??
I`m thinking about grazing a pasture over winter and in the early spring DDing beans or even oats into this pasture. Shaving the grass down to the ground just before the crop emerges. As the pasture got no fertilizer then it might be really slow to regenerate ?? The beans don`t need N and would be happy growing together with a grass, oats could get all needed nutrients down the spout with the drill and are good competitors against grass weeds.
Comes harvest time, it could be a problem with the beans as the grass might go crazy the last weeks ?? Oats could be stripper headed to leave the grass alone. When the combine has left the field, it can be grazed again.
Could that work ?? What else can you think about ??