Peaola

[Baling Hay]

Anyone still growing peaola?

 

[EddieB]

Anyone still growing peaola?

I’m growing poats!
A couple of control strips with no oats the peas went really flat. Predominantly standing when mixed.

 

[Baling Hay]

I’m growing poats!
A couple of control strips with no oats the peas went really flat. Predominantly standing when mixed.


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How do you think it yielded? What inputs did it have?

 

[EddieB]

How do you think it yielded? What inputs did it have?

We haven’t cleaned out the respective components yet but c. 4.2 t/ha gross. Drilled end of March, from memory seed rates were 220 kg/ha peas, 40 kg/ha oats, pre em herbicide, V-R potash and 30 kg/N for the oats.
If I repeat next year there is scope to reduce the proportion of oats.

 

[scotston]

What combine settings did you use? I have a trial of organic pea barley. The lexion book describes the concave as 20mm for peas and 10mm for barley. I picked 15mm and got a fairly predictable result: split peas and unharvested barley heads. Just wondering what everyone does for these mixtures including peaola?

 

[EddieB]

I wasn’t driving the combine but it was set up for peas. I can see that this would work better with oats than barley. The peas were the main focus and any oats retained seen as a bonus.

 

[scotston]

Cheers for that. I do get the feeling that all intercrops are a compromise. I suppose I also have to deal with the lack of reglone to aid my threshing. I have barley heads green and over ripe with peas that have pod shatter and others that are ready for the jolly green giant! As a side note we broadcast 2kg of crimson clover seed over our organic osr. Not sure how it will fight the weeds or the winter.