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Cropping
Pre - Harvest 2016 i had an exciting Fantasy....
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<blockquote data-quote="Will7" data-source="post: 2884434" data-attributes="member: 1749"><p>A couple of observations:</p><p>- This year we chopped the winter barley straw for a customer and it chopped well; but it was a low straw yield year for him and is destined for spring cropping. I would not encourage this approach if the following crop was osr.</p><p>- Just stand back and look at the situation in the field and empty your mind of all agricultural knowledge you have learnt over your career. Doesn't the 3" of densely chopped straw resemble a mulch a horticulturalist might use to suppress weeds?? Why then would a plant with a death wish for its 50 week growing life want to grow through it??</p><p>- I am currently looking at 75% of the farm with a mat of spring barley straw which will get raked in the next dry spell and left for winter. Some advice on here was to leave it for 3 weeks post harvest and it then becomes more manageable which I have done, and it does seem a lot better in my trials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Will7, post: 2884434, member: 1749"] A couple of observations: - This year we chopped the winter barley straw for a customer and it chopped well; but it was a low straw yield year for him and is destined for spring cropping. I would not encourage this approach if the following crop was osr. - Just stand back and look at the situation in the field and empty your mind of all agricultural knowledge you have learnt over your career. Doesn't the 3" of densely chopped straw resemble a mulch a horticulturalist might use to suppress weeds?? Why then would a plant with a death wish for its 50 week growing life want to grow through it?? - I am currently looking at 75% of the farm with a mat of spring barley straw which will get raked in the next dry spell and left for winter. Some advice on here was to leave it for 3 weeks post harvest and it then becomes more manageable which I have done, and it does seem a lot better in my trials. [/QUOTE]
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