Spring Oat drilling rates

[Jim Bullock]

I have never grown spring oats so do not know if they tiller like winter varieties. We normally drill winter crops at about 125 kgs/ha but I suspect we need to be planting more in the spring....? There was a thread on spring oats but I cannot find it.

 

[Longneck]

Usually aim for about 350 - 400 seeds here

 

[franklin]

Will be more like 175kg/ha here, but wont be drilled for maybe a month. All fert in seedbed.

 

[Clive]

170-200 here when I get round to doing a TGW count

Still early / cold yet

 

[Pedders]

have you sold them yet ?

 

[franklin]

have you sold them yet ?

Yup.

170-200 here when I get round to doing a TGW count

Still early / cold yet

Spring oats seem that bit happier in a cloddier seedbed than spring barley. If my soil was dry, I'd be putting them in now. But it isnt. So will wait. Would like them in before this time next month really.

 

[chipchap]

Drilling now at 90 kg/ha, but I'm growing for seed and the C1 seed is £500/ ton.

 

[Iben]

Drilling now at 90 kg/ha, but I'm growing for seed and the C1 seed is £500/ ton.

What yield do you expect from that low seed rate?

Mine are all in now @ 190kg/ha.

 

[willy]

I normally go with 150 kg ha. And have had sone really good results.

 

[sixrow]

accord dc used to be full open up here

 

[APJ]

Sowing at 140kg/ha here tgw 34.

 

[chipchap]

What yield do you expect from that low seed rate?

Mine are all in now @ 190kg/ha.

usually between 2.6 and 3 ton/acre, but did a bit over 3 last year.
limited to 50 kg/ha N under HLS too.

 

[chipchap]

Spring oats for seed will have been my best margin combinable crop in 2015 I reckon, so you boys keep on using the high seed rates to keep up demand!!

 

[Clive]

Spring oats for seed will have been my best margin combinable crop in 2015 I reckon, so you boys keep on using the high seed rates to keep up demand!!

Not sure why anyone would buy new seed ?

 

[chipchap]

Not sure why anyone would by new seed ?

Usually because there are wild oats in the sample.
We have worked hard over the years to keep our land virtually free.

 

[blue power]

220kg/ha on organic ground here and drilling organic wheat tomorrow at 280kg/ha spend half the day filling the drill

 

[Clive]

Usually because there are wild oats in the sample.
We have worked hard over the years to keep our land virtually free.

I grew seed last in the past, like most seed crops by the time you have spent more on C1 seed and additional inputs required to keep them tip-tip the margin was never any better than a commercial crop but with much greater risk

Wild oats are a pretty easy and cheap weed to control these days in most crops

 

[Colin]

Had to get new seed this year as didn't have Spring oats last year, fancy new variety called Firth, see how it goes. Also got a posh winter oat variety, Gerald it's called, seemingly about as new as Concerto barley.
The se that came is 31tgw so will go a long way, will be going in at 400/m2

 

[billboy 1]

What would be a good variety to grow as going to try some this year ?

 

[Iben]

Grown canyon for last few years. Trying some aspen this year.