- Location
- Northumberlandia
Thru Grain Co-op yeah no bother it wont be a fortune but need them in my rotation year in year out
Third best break crop i have here.
Spring oats
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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Third best break crop i have here.
- Location
- Northumberlandia
£120/t for them all in Dec + £4/ton silo surplus from grainstore ontop
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- Location
- Northumberlandia
Had £203/ton end of 2012 tho..... yet no Oat based Products were any dearer in the shops
£232 same time for best biscuit grade wheats...
£232 same time for best biscuit grade wheats...
- Location
- Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire
Putting in 120 acres this year.....probably our most profitable crop in 2016. Direct-drilled; 100 units N, one broad leaved weed herbicide, combined at 14%mc, and probably yielded in excess of 5.75 t/ha..don't know exact yield as still some to be collected.
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Cant direct drill here too many wheelings on land & water still standing in the yet to be drain repaired parts, starting tomorrow
funny enuff, then theres plenty cattle muck to go on stubbles aswell
50 units of Nitram on my spring ones coz of muck
- Location
- Northumberlandia
does nowt less than 2.3-2.5t easily sometimes 2.8t & its sown a less rate aswell 130kg/ha
On heavy land 11 stone /acre
Light land 10 stone / acre
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Last year we did find that the claydon drilled oats out yielded the plough and vadderstad system by 25 % all drilled on the same day and same areas shared between the 2 systems , 2 systems were used as it's on shared agreement with a neighbour on a block of land rented.
- Location
- Durham, UK
Putting 20 acre of firth in. Had 12 in last year that did 2.6 ton to the acre. Plough, ph drill combi, roll. Cheap herbicide. Cheap fung. And 75 units of n.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Excellent feed for sheep too
- Location
- Northumberlandia
what kind of land you on?
DD is a foreign language up here
MinTill & Ploughing Apart from a fair bit of DD OSR now. which i still do mine MinTill & Subsoil tramlines before hand.
Everything from hideous badly reinstated open cast clay , to ash with medium loam with reasonable clay content.. more n more are getting there direct drills going , just having the bottle to make the mistakes n adopt a different way of thinking ...
sow spring oats fairly thick, wouldn't be great for tillering
I default to 12 stone / acre 185 Kg/H
We grow a variety called Husky
can be sowed winter or spring and can yield 4T and bushel over 50
a white oat as I understand.
With the 3 crop rule its the third brother and was grown in land that never grew oats before
People were amazed at yields
- Location
- Northumberlandia
I hear what your saying but cant deal with half a crop & gotta do it right first time or am well outta pocket.
Most straw is baled so there is surface compaction to deal with, muck n straw to bury Plough is still King for me in all these instances.
- Location
- Northumberlandia
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Sow winter ones 195-205kg seems to help them..
Spring ones get away with less as i say am right down to 125/130kg for scheme & still get half decent crops
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
What seeds per m2 would that be?
Colin
Member
- Location
- Perthshire
250 acres split canyon and Conway light land but they do better than winters and no risk of frost heave. Usually get 2.5 to 3 had 4 in 2012 when it rained all the time.
What do you follow them with?
Each to their own I suppose , we take a fair bit of straw off n have the Wheeling's from bale trailers to contend with, the claydon system&cover crops are taking care of any compaction issues . 2012 season was the very reason we got into direct drilling, land slumped and eroding flowing down the drains, getting just the same yields as the ground is improving n doing the arable job 50 pound an acre cheaper on establishment than we were previously...