Self sown OSR

[pipestretcher]

Are there any old threads on here about the merits or otherwise of leaving a crop of self sown osr. Many thanks.

 

[shakerator]

Are there any old threads on here about the merits or otherwise of leaving a crop of self sown osr. Many thanks.

More than 3t/ha is possible

 

[pipestretcher]

More than 3t/ha is possible

Is that speaking from experience? Right now it's a very tempting proposition.

 

[shakerator]

Is that speaking from experience? Right now it's a very tempting proposition.

Indeed
It did more than a sown crop that year
Just watch botyrtis , I never applied fungicide lot of grey seed, it may have been even better if so

 

[Brisel]

More than 3t/ha is possible

Less than 3 t/ha is likely. The crop will be 50x as dense as it needs to be, so will need managing accordingly. Consider putting a tine through the crop in spring to thin it out or spray out some with narrow nozzles to allow the crop to branch out. Disease control & canopy management will have to be very good.

I very much doubt you will make more money from this than you will from a 1st cereal which was why you grew last year's osr crop as a break, so why do it? Lost the newly sown stuff to flea beetle?

 

[pipestretcher]

Disappearing rapidly. Newly sown area becomes 2nd wheat so maintaining some sort of rotation. ?‍