Phacelia

[dontknowanything]

I'm getting a custom mix made by @Pedders , but I can't decide whether to put in 0.5kg/ha of phacelia. This amount adds 37% to the price of the cover crop. Not sure I can convince myself it is worth it?

 

[JNG]

I'm getting a custom mix made by @Pedders , but I can't decide whether to put in 0.5kg/ha of phacelia. This amount adds 37% to the price of the cover crop. Not sure I can convince myself it is worth it?

What else you got in there and what's the following crop?

 

[dontknowanything]

What else you go in there and what's the following crop?

oats, sunflower, millet, vetch, fodder radish, stubble turnips, forage rape, linseed. Following crops will be peas and sugar beet. Will be grazed

 

[JNG]

I like the Phacelia in there but to increase the price by 37% is alot, prob not worth it. you have a lot of Brassicas, will the others get a look in?

 

[dontknowanything]

I like the Phacelia in there but to increase the price by 37% is alot, prob not worth it. you have a lot of Brassicas, will the others get a look in?

2kg/ha of brassicas

 

[JD-Kid]

we grew it for seed years ago at old farm .. told mainly used for summer covers in wild life mixes to feed ladybirds bees etc etc and for outside planting to control pests IE the good insects live in it invaders have to pass though it so get killed off with good insects ..

for that job great if just a cover crop ummmm don't know if it would be worth it

we also grew sunflowers and got scortinna (?) in them the seed growers can't grow them back to back in alot of areas due to disease so that would be another thing i would question

 

[BSH]

I think it has an increased value when used before a winter cereal when there is only a short gap between harvest and drilling. Probably less important in your planned use?

 

[Simon Chiles]

we grew it for seed years ago at old farm .. told mainly used for summer covers in wild life mixes to feed ladybirds bees etc etc and for outside planting to control pests IE the good insects live in it invaders have to pass though it so get killed off with good insects ..

for that job great if just a cover crop ummmm don't know if it would be worth it

we also grew sunflowers and got scortinna (?) in them the seed growers can't grow them back to back in alot of areas due to disease so that would be another thing i would question

What was the yield when you grew it for seed?
I was going to grow a few acres for my own use but have ended up with a contract for seed production so I'm growing a few more acres than I originally intended!!!

 

[JD-Kid]

i would have to look way back in the books would have been 16 years ago i guess .. can recall it bing a bi itch to harvest very fine hairs on it and itchy as all hell HAHAHA

can recall it was not a bad crop to grow just needed pre emerage grass control and a hit of urea early flowering can't recall any other spraying ..