Spring oat bushel weight (how to increase)

[willy]

Anyone who grows spring oats regularly?, if so how do you influence specific weight in s oats.

 

[bankrupt]

Anyone who grows spring oats regularly?, if so how do you influence specific weight in s oats.

Order more rain.

 

[Chae1]

Anyone who grows spring oats regularly?, if so how do you influence specific weight in s oats.

Run it through mobile dryer on a windy day.

 

[PSQ]

Anyone who grows spring oats regularly?, if so how do you influence specific weight in s oats.

Give it enough fertiliser that it fills, but not enough that the whole field goes as flat as a witches tit.
In reality both of those fertiliser rates are the same.

 

[Still Farming]

Lead mix???

 

[ajd132]

Don’t be tempted to bang up seed rates.

 

[teslacoils]

Put through combine a second time.

 

[moretimeforgolf]

I had that problem last year. I’ve cut seed rates and switched the bulk of my area to a new variety called Isobel which is rated as having a better bushel weight than Elyann.

 

[bankrupt]

Isobel which is rated as having a better bushel

HGCA 55.7 is that?

Unfortunately, with spring oats, more than any other cereal, it all depends upon the weather, particularly the rainfall in June and July.

We had 35kg/hectolitre in 1976 and 60 in 2017.

 

[Case290]

My spring Oats last yr were awful . I need some tips 2
Mine went flat 2
would n timing make any difference ?

 

[moretimeforgolf]

My spring Oats last yr were awful . I need some tips 2
Mine went flat 2
would n timing make any difference ?

Mine were standing but bushel weight was low 40s. As I said in my previous post, I’ve tried a couple of things this year but as Bankrupt said, the weather must be the biggest factor.

 

[Feldspar]

NIAB say don't put anything more than 1l of CCC or 0.1 Moddus on. Don't put too much N on. And keep seed rates down. I've done the first two!

 

[Cowcorn]

Now i havent grown spring oats for a few years but used to grow quite a lot.
We were on a milling oats contract so high hecolitre weight was a must to secure the premuim . The advice at the time was to combine drill 3 to 4 cwt of 10 10 20 compound with the seed and apply the remainder of the N as soon as the tramlines were visible . Even where soil indices for p and k were high the drilled compound was readily available to the fast devloping spring crop and seemed to make a big difference to yield and quality .

 

[ajd132]

NIAB say don't put anything more than 1l of CCC or 0.1 Moddus on. Don't put too much N on. And keep seed rates down. I've done the first two!

We have never had a problem with oats following this principle

 

[principal skinner]

140kgs seed, 120kgs N, no growth reg.........

 

[Spencer]

Oats like rain... more than any other cereal in my opinion.

 

[chipchap]

We have been growing spring oats for seed for years.
never go above 100 kg/ha with seed.
plenty of draft on combine.
clean well at harvest too.
no point filling the store with crap.

we do need some rain mind.

 

[ih1455xl]

Half the seed rate (80kg/ha has yielded the best and high bushel), plenty of n, plenty of growth reg and watch for crown rust

 

[teslacoils]

The perk of not being on a contract is that come December when it gets cold and oats are in short supply, the "min 50kg" suddenly becomes 47kg, which then turns to "we will take anything".

2018 cleaning and faffing was entirely for nothing as the mills were taking any old crap by January.

Chemicalwise, bit of strob on the flag leaf helps.