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Spring oats

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
Yes, growing spring oats for the first time ('tame' ones anyway :cautious:), will be watching this thread with interest...
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
Grow 30-40acres of S Oats every year Fab Break Crop...
Cheap to grow aim for 2.5-3t & thats even at lower seed rates for HLS rules
i must have done sumfink write as i had the best sample in our grain Co-op last harvest
I grow Winter Ones aswell & mind they look like a 5" new bowling green atm (y)
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
did anyone suffer from header losses much last season in their spring oats, defo weren't coming over the back as it was all over the field,only two reasons left for losses were either got shook out a bit with wind or header losses.
 

Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
did anyone suffer from header losses much last season in their spring oats, defo weren't coming over the back as it was all over the field,only two reasons left for losses were either got shook out a bit with wind or header losses.
A Little but far worse in my winter ones...
Advice to self Spray off & dont go near for 3wks !!!
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
That's exactly what we did, 2 weeks after spraying winds came so putting it down to that , on the plus side they were rediculosy dry going into meldon but I think most folks were
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
End of August begining of September in Durham .. for combining ..
Our losses were nothing as heavy as that or. Think we did about 3 t of them last season gone so that was canny
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
did anyone suffer from header losses much last season in their spring oats, defo weren't coming over the back as it was all over the field,only two reasons left for losses were either got shook out a bit with wind or header losses.
No but I couldn't keep my spring drilled Mascani in the combine :( no bother at all with the winter drilled stuff. I think I will try spring beans this year as my land is getting ready for a bit of a rest from cereals.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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