Planted Swedes but got Kale!!!!!!

[Glomulinman]

I purchased 10 acres of swede seeds to graze with sheep, planted as usual, has grown as kale....
Has anyone had a similar experience, or know if I can claim compensation?
Thanks.

 

[Dan Powell]

Plenty of people sowing wheat and getting a crop of black grass. Count yourself lucky!

 

[phil]

I purchased 10 acres of swede seeds to graze with sheep, planted as usual, has grown as kale....
Has anyone had a similar experience, or know if I can claim compensation?
Thanks.

Do you have label on bag

 

[Great In Grass]

Do you have label on bag

That was going to be my first question.

 

[phil t]

We got 100 acres of grass seed and when tipping bags into drill it was full of rat poo rep came out took samples pics etc we ended up getting a lot of free seed

 

[mikep]

I purchased 10 acres of swede seeds to graze with sheep, planted as usual, has grown as kale....
Has anyone had a similar experience, or know if I can claim compensation?
Thanks.

If you can prove it yes.

 

[Nearly]

Always take pic of seed label.

 

[Great In Grass]

Always take pic of seed label.

Or just take them off the bag & keep them safe handy for any inspections too.

 

[Nearly]

Always take pic of seed label.

Or just take them off the bag & keep them safe handy for any inspections too.

Always lose the labels, photo uploads to pc automatically.

 

[Great In Grass]

I know a couple of my organic farmers have to show the actual green label when being inspected.

 

[Nearly]

No inspections here.

 

[glasshouse]

the swedes must have crossed with rogue plants to produce kale, or the bags got mixed up

 

[dannewhouse]

you will have the bill showing variety etc.
I have herd of a farmer who re seeded say a 20 acre field and 2/3 bags of seed (happened to be near the middle) must have had beet seed in them. he got compensation galore.
I think he was paid for a contractor to reseed either the "patch" or the field inc seed. and got compensation for the lost yield etc the cut of grass he missed due to reseeding.

I think he came out of it better than he was before it started. obviously beet was a bit of a problem as mowing would result in soil in the silage so it was wasted.

I have also herd a story of a silage additive that went wrong resulting in the silage continually decomposing and heating up, it was full of mould. when the rep and "top man" came out they just said to farmer how much do we owe you for the full clamp of silage wrote a cheque out for agreed value job sorted, I assume he had a fare job finding more silage though.