Spreading osr into standing wheat

[snipe]

Looks like a wet week ahead, and could do to get some osr established, has anyone had any success broadcasting it into standing wheat. would be using home saved seed. Would a krm spreader be any good to do it with?

 

[teslacoils]

Contractor with SP sprayer with skinny wheels on - osr in the slug pellet hopper and roundup out the jets. Kuhn aero spreader? Most fert spreaders I've used have settings for osr. Untreated, fss.

 

[snipe]

Did it grow ok?

 

[melted welly]

Worked for a chap years ago who spread a mix of OSR and slug pellets onto standing wheat with an Amazon’s pneumatic on a fastrac. The stuff seems to grow fine, but watching the slug pellets then running out the grain trailer and flowing into the drier concerned me a bit.

 

[ewald]

Rain is the key - neighbours have often done it, can work well in the right season. Costs very little if the crop does fail

 

[Wheatland]

I’m trying it this year for the first time. I’ve fitted a techneat unit to my 36m sprayer and I’m trying various things.

I started about a month ago spreading fenugreek and berseem clover Into crops. The idea was to drill osr post harvest into an already established cover to deter flea beetle but it’s been too dry and it’s all growing together as the rain has arrived.

I‘ve also done osr and clover mixed and osr on its own as well as stubble turnips and small seed covers. I’ll post some pictures later

 

[Zan]

I’m trying it this year for the first time. I’ve fitted a techneat unit to my 36m sprayer and I’m trying various things.

I started about a month ago spreading fenugreek and berseem clover Into crops. The idea was to drill osr post harvest into an already established cover to deter flea beetle but it’s been too dry and it’s all growing together as the rain has arrived.

I‘ve also done osr and clover mixed and osr on its own as well as stubble turnips and small seed covers. I’ll post some pictures later

im in the same boat as you, upto now nothing has grown as it’s been bone dry, got some OSR to do into spring wheat next couple of days with roundup

 

[Wheatland]

I haven’t been brave enough to spray roundup and seed at the same time. Surely some of the seed will land on droplets of roundup and be affected? I have been spraying the roundup and then going back later and putting the seed on. I’d be interested in anyone’s experience in this.

 

[snipe]

Was thinking of baling the straw too, although there will only be a couple of bales/ac at the most.

 

[Chalky]

Will find out. Spread 160 Ha over two of the groups farms on weds & thurs! 32m avadex machine-wet/damp for a few days-no pellets (even though ferric benign but still blue)due to potential contamination & disaster in making. All wheat sown march so will be late. 2019 sown stuff will be drilled into as usual.

 

[HarryB97]

It'll work well we used to do several hundred hundred acres of turnips the same way. It worked well upto 24 metres but when we moved to 30 metre tramlines you always had an empty strip. In a wet year we would be running over the chitted turnips with loaders picking up bales but when we came to graze them you could never pick out where the loaders had driven.

 

[glasshouse]

It works sometimes
i use a kuhn aero at 20m

 

[Ramrod]

Did it for years before retirement, spread with applicator's on sprayer booms (3 over 24m), chop straw (mulch) keep trailers on headlands and stick to tramlines.

No problems, but never got into situation of prolonged rain between applying and combine.

 

[redbaron]

I did this several years ago, and the crop went through to harvest. The establishment was a bit erratic if I recall, mainly due to excess chopped straw here and there. Combine driver needs to be aware, and keeping moving at all times when chopping. Short straw this year will help. Has anyone done it and deliberately cut really high?

 

[glasshouse]

I did this several years ago, and the crop went through to harvest. The establishment was a bit erratic if I recall, mainly due to excess chopped straw here and there. Combine driver needs to be aware, and keeping moving at all times when chopping. Short straw this year will help. Has anyone done it and deliberately cut really high?

If you cut high, you get a bendy cotyledon

 

[snipe]

Giving it a go this afternoon. Got 16ha to do. Mixed 15kg of seed with 125kg of 22-5-15 And 3.5kg of slug pellets/ha.

 

[Wombat]

Giving it a go this afternoon. Got 16ha to do. Mixed 15kg of seed with 125kg of 22-5-15 And 3.5kg of slug pellets/ha.

Would you add the pellets in case one got stuck in an ear and ended up in a trailer somehow?

 

[teslacoils]

I'd absolutely not add any slug pellets.

 

[snipe]

Hopefully this weeks rain will help.

 

[Brisel]

Establishment can be variable and beware of slugs but I've done this before. I wouldn't want to go wider than 24m with a twin disc spreader unless you can space the spinners out better e.g. pelleters out wide on the booms, Outcast, Avadex spreaders or pneumatic spreaders. Avoid doing this into really thick crops like spring barley where sunlight can't get through easily.

As a low cost establishment method, give it a try. Osr seed will grow on the surface quite happily.