Spring cereal wholecrop yields.

[holmes65]

We are thinking of entering some land into AB7 in a new mid tier scheme, does anyone have any idea of the yield of spring cereals taken for wholecrop. It will be going to an AD plant, hopefully along with any ryegrass that grows in it.

 

[Bald Rick]

Put this in here for you @holmes65 as you'll get better answers than in "off topic"

 

[ollie989898]

Grow spring wheat, sow it at decent seed rates and you will get a reasonable yield. It won't be 18 tonnes/acre like 10 foot maize but then not much is, the earlier harvest more than compensates.

 

[Cowslip]

Been getting around 20t/acre on winter wheat this year, some has been clean due to a road expansion and some full off ryegrass.

 

[harperfarmer]

We grow 100 acres of wholecrop cereals for the AB7 option. Yield will be around 5-8t/acre down on winter sown cereals in my experience depending on establishment etc. We grow winter oats but planted in the spring, and would expect them to do around 8-13t/acre freshweight. Big variation I know but establishment and the type of spring we get make such a big impact. If I get 10t/acre I'm generally happy as it helps the BG situation, I'm getting my £200/acre and bit for the crop too, with no worries about drying the corn in a wet time.

 

[holmes65]

We grow 100 acres of wholecrop cereals for the AB7 option. Yield will be around 5-8t/acre down on winter sown cereals in my experience depending on establishment etc. We grow winter oats but planted in the spring, and would expect them to do around 8-13t/acre freshweight. Big variation I know but establishment and the type of spring we get make such a big impact. If I get 10t/acre I'm generally happy as it helps the BG situation, I'm getting my £200/acre and bit for the crop too, with no worries about drying the corn in a wet time.

Any reason for growing winter oats instead of spring? We are growing both for grain this year so will have home saved seed available for both.

 

[harperfarmer]

We are thinking of entering some land into AB7 in a new mid tier scheme, does anyone have any idea of the yield of spring cereals taken for wholecrop. It will be going to an AD plant, hopefully along with any ryegrass that grows in it.

Any reason for growing winter oats instead of spring? We are growing both for grain this year so will have home saved seed available for both.

Purely because we had some home saved winter oat seed so used that rather that but some spring seed. And we've continued growing some winter oats for combining so just keep seed from that