Spring oats

[Farma Parma]

Is Mascani not on it? Quaker and Morning foods love them.

dont think so.
Ive just changed my s pea variety from daytona which in a good year did 2.2t to 1.1t in 2016... weather to blame.
to Zero4 as thats the only variety all the rest that grow peas grow... they yield less but are ready quicker which is probs a good thing here
will try them n see

 

[Renaultman]

2 years ago we cut spring oats on 14th August. Finished baling on 14th September.

It doesnt dry well in the swath. We will run the tedder behind the combine this year. Grain is fit so much earlier than the straw is. There is exactly nil demand for oat straw in the swath, but conventional bales are the bees-knees.

To be fair, not much will bale behind the combine if we are cutting in August.

We had a blocked auger or something similar one year, Oats were 13% and there was water running out of the header.

 

[Farma Parma]

We had a blocked auger or something similar one year, Oats were 13% and there was water running out of the header.

I know all about this...
Header soaking behind the knife & oats 17% for the sake of it which we would cut up here.
Trying to leave them longer is upto the bloody weather

 

[Renaultman]

I know all about this...
Header soaking behind the knife & oats 17% for the sake of it which we would cut up here.
Trying to leave them longer is upto the bloody weather

And here. Like to put them through the drier to clean them up anyway.

 

[bobk]

Not very keen now .

 

[Renaultman]

Not very keen now .

Don't grow them they're crap

 

[Farma Parma]

Don't grow them they're crap

Please dont anyone else grow them coz i'll have even more nexr yr heheeee

 

[bobk]

Don't grow them they're crap

I may try a small patch.

 

[Farma Parma]

I may try a small patch.

what 100ac nodoubt thats the bottom oot the market for us year in year out lads.... that always grow the stuff whither it makes any money or not

 

[bobk]

what 100ac nodoubt thats the bottom oot the market for us year in year out lads.... that always grow the stuff whither it makes any money or not

Dunna fret , just looking for a crop after pp to be sown in the spring that possibly might turn a quid or 2.

 

[Spud]

We've grown them since 2013. Altered rotation from continuous wheat on the heavy stuff interspersed with setaside (back in the day) to two wheats, spring oats, two wheats, winter beans. Mostly because to get rape in we need to be after winter barley, which doesnt perform on the heavier end of the farm like it does at the lighter end, and I'm crap at growing rape cos my focus is on the spuds. Beans let me use Kerb on the bg, and are direct drilled. The oats are very competitive, leave me plenty straw for the pigs and are a fairly reliable spring break (again, bg control measure) Two wheats cos we tend to see the dip in yield in year three here. First wheats either dd or min til, second wheats usually mintil, if its been bad for bg and hasn't been ploughed for 4/5yrs, thats usually where ploughing will occur.
I concurr with the need to treat oat straw like hay though, frustrating in a wet time!

 

[E_B]

Wheat after oats look good? Am I right in thinking you use a mzuri? Have you ever tried going into chopped pay straw.

Off to lamma on Thursday to have a good look at mzuri! Very interested in it.

Yes, first year running a Mzuri, and we demo'ed/had contractors do some with one last year.

All our wheat was done with the drill this year, behind grass, beans, oats. The oat straw was all baled I'm afraid as we're dairy so need it all. If the straw was chopped, I don't think trash flow would be a problem (takes a lot to block the drill), I can envisage the straw break down locking up further N and inhibiting the following wheat on heavy land in a wet winter but only assuming. Some starter fert may counteract that. The oats condition the ground nicely and leave some decent tilth to go straight into with the drill. We had some dirty oat crops last year which left a BG legacy in the wheat but the Autumn Atlantis seems to have done a very good job this year on it.

Wheats after oats looking decent this year, so far anyway.. Excuse the combine losses..

Also headed to LAMMA on Thursday. Feel free to PM if you want any thoughts on the drill.

 

[average farmer]

Growing 30 acres of canyon this spring, thinking 100-120 kg N/H does that sound about right? Thought I'd put most of it in the seed bed

 

[Colin]

120 is what I go for but on light land

 

[ajd132]

Growing 100ha of canyon Spring oats for the first time this year, I am looking forward to the learning! Father drives the combine so If they fall over I won't be popular.

 

[phil]

Growing 100ha of canyon Spring oats for the first time this year, I am looking forward to the learning! Father drives the combine so If they fall over I won't be popular.

Plenty of CCC and Modus

ive put 150Kg/Ha of N on spring oats and kept it standing

if its any where near ripe, cut it. it falls over if left

 

[ajd132]

Plenty of CCC and Modus

ive put 150Kg/Ha of N on spring oats and kept it standing

if its any where near ripe, cut it. it falls over if left

How much N down spout do you think? 40kg?

 

[phil]

How much N down spout do you think? 40kg?

plenty, depends on when you sow really,

later sown you could put it all down

 

[franklin]

If we get into April for sowing, I will spread half the N on infront of the drill and the other half when I see the rows.

 

[PSQ]

Are their any restrictions on growing spring oats in the rotation, as in growing them too frequently?