That strategy will ensure it does really well, costs nothing to grow, and you will wish you had planted it all up..
Spring OSR - am I mad?
- Thread starter Bramble
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
There was 9k ha of it grown last year so I can only assume there some growers out there with more fire resistant testicles than you... or maybe they lost them already?
LOL!
Don't grow Spring OSR any more but, in its defence, when we did it was always a far better break than Winter OSR or Beans.
Averaged half a tonne/acre of extra wheat following, over the years, which closes the Winter/Spring economic gap a fair bit.
This was usually due to the very much reduced slug damage after Spring OSR - and sometimes to better soil structure, not having another extra 30 ins or so excess winter rainfall intervening between establishments.
How much of that was after failed wnter crops?
Flintstone
Member
- Location
- Berkshire
Planting Spring rape after failed winter rape is like losing £20,000 on the Grand National, and then trying to win in back on the way home by dropping into a games arcade with £1 in 2p's and playing that penny drop game, whilst blindfolded, wearing barbed wire mittens, and during a power cut.
Seriously, it would be more profitable to let the local pikeys use the field between April and August.
Seriously, it would be more profitable to let the local pikeys use the field between April and August.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
No easy way to tell but a fair proportion, not as much as used to be as people have been more used to winter rape compensating with pretty low plant numbers.
Which is why the area is so low. Unless you have really bit bare patches or a completely failed crop that you really need into rape then it is often best to stick with what you have got.
Barry
- Location
- south norfolk
Has anyone ever grown millet.seem to get fliers fall out of most farming magazines at the moment.must be a demand as bird seed sellers want it
Nick...
Nick...
On the list to try, but after getting burnt with Soya, need another year to recover
Plus next to 2 bird reserves, so you can imagine the headache it might be
- Location
- south norfolk
I'd fancy trying a bit.dont know wether contractor would want to get his combine out again in September though but I'm sure someone would.good break crop too and if drilling in may would allow a cover crop from previous harvest till April before drilling
Nick...
Nick...
- Location
- Cirencester
Tried it here about 7 years ago, grew well, looked like it may perform but despite a good desiccation prior to combining it was still a tad green in the stalk department, time was getting on, so we cut it anyway. Yielded nothing very special (can't even remember how much), and had issues trying to get them to pick the ruddy stuff up. We ended up feeding it to the pheasants in the end.
I would rather grow linseed than SOSR or Millet
And how much of it made it to harvest................?
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
when we grew hyola it was a better crop than winter rape
weed control is the biggest problem here
as with most crops pest problem are much smaller if the area grown is large 100 acres plus
20 acres attracts all the pests around 100 acres and they are not as concentrated per acre
cold wet Aprils hurt early planted spring rape a lot more than any other crop
clean land and a dry april and it is the best crop to grow
weed control is the biggest problem here
as with most crops pest problem are much smaller if the area grown is large 100 acres plus
20 acres attracts all the pests around 100 acres and they are not as concentrated per acre
cold wet Aprils hurt early planted spring rape a lot more than any other crop
clean land and a dry april and it is the best crop to grow
Hyola?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
A neighbour grew it a few years ago it looked really well all season,they decicated it and waited and waited and waited then when they did try to combine it they done three sets of drum belts on the combine. They said it was a sod to get through the combine and would wrap around and bung up in seconds.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It needs swathing,if you can get it this far,I have always been lucky with the crop,and haven't had the problems other people have had with flea beetle,I have suffered with pod weevil tho.
Biscuit Producer
New Member
I've joined this forum because I'm interested in testing/using millet grown in the South East (preferably Sussex) in our biscuits (for humans, not birds). We already use local flour/ linseed meal & honey, and I would like to add millet to the list. Does anyone grow/ process millet that is suitable for human consumption?
By the way, millet was used in cooking about 200 years ago. I have an old recipe for Millet pudding and it's really delicious - rather like rice pudding.
Derky
Member
- Location
- Bucks/oxon
Don't do it!!!! Was in your position last year and it swallowed money up. Leave it fallow.
Talk to soya uk.