Pea and linseed catch crop

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Want a cheap catch crop post osr and before winter wheat. Want to keep it cheap. Linseed and peas are easy to do, any seed rate suggestions or thoughts?
 

cquick

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BASE UK Member
Buckwheat, sunflowers and grain maize are super cheap as bird feed.
If they happen to fall on your fields in the process of feeding said birds and germinate though.. I've seen them all grow away very well.

Last year did Linseed @ 10kg/ha, sunflower 5kg, buckwheat 10kg, phacelia 1kg and berseem clover 2kg after OSR. Peas would be better than berseem as it's quicker to establish. Worked well, ended up about 2-3ft tall. Drilled 29th July, terminated 1st October.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Buckwheat, sunflowers and grain maize are super cheap as bird feed.
If they happen to fall on your fields in the process of feeding said birds and germinate though.. I've seen them all grow away very well.

Last year did Linseed @ 10kg/ha, sunflower 5kg, buckwheat 10kg, phacelia 1kg and berseem clover 2kg after OSR. Peas would be better than berseem as it's quicker to establish. Worked well, ended up about 2-3ft tall. Drilled 29th July, terminated 1st October.
Yeh I was thinking of doing buckwheat and sunflower aswell. I’m sending you a Dm
 

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