- Location
- Lincolnshire
More time needed. They will in the end.
State of your crops -2022
- Thread starter Jerry
- Start date
More time needed. They will in the end.
- Location
- Darlington
But the stalks are snapping on my winter beans
- Location
- Northern Ireland
So what's your favourite mixed farm rotation?
If more nutrients become available, then would wheat be more successful after barley after grass, or is take all an issue?
Here wheat does really well after oats for some reason, perhaps oats after grass would work well as they would scavenge the locked up N better than wheat
- Location
- Northern Ireland
In my situation, conventional wisdom would say fertility is at its highest at the end of the grass rotation because of nutrient accumulation from slurry. Oats is usually put at the end when the ground is depleted from cereals. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I've no experience of potatoes, but I think it would have been grass, potatoes, barley, oats here.
Theres no way I'd let ground for potatoes here now though, as a wet harvest and heavy harvesters would ruin my drains. Different from the days of the spinner and hand picking. And the straw kills combinable oats for me, though I'd grow it for wholecrop if I needed some.
Theres no way I'd let ground for potatoes here now though, as a wet harvest and heavy harvesters would ruin my drains. Different from the days of the spinner and hand picking. And the straw kills combinable oats for me, though I'd grow it for wholecrop if I needed some.
I've got winter beans where 25% of the field would combine tomorrow, the rest needs another month. Poorer soils and compaction issues are really showing up this year.But the stalks are snapping on my winter beans
- Location
- Lincolnshire
1st wheat after grass is always an unknown, given in August you can not get an impliment into the land after silage, and so wheat can go in any time from September through to December. 2nd wheat after grass is usually the best.
Few showery days have given the wheat a healthy lean now.
Few showery days have given the wheat a healthy lean now.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
That's interesting. In these parts, the challenge is more likely to be hoping the land recovers enough after a wet August to stand ploughing and sowing. Wheat not so much of a favourite for the combine here, because it takes one hell of a drying. The handful of times I've let it go on for the combine, it has come off at about 22%. Barley just ripens better for us in this regard, but we can still grow a 4t crop of wheat for silage, in that it stands the winter better than barley here.
Same here, more often than not.
Got some bits testing down to 17% now, so we'll soon be able see.
Hopefully, might still just beat our '76 drought wheat yield of 4.3t/ha.