Stubble Turnips and Club Root

[mghley]

Been offered a field for stubble turnips but told 5 years ago had some club root in osr on same field.
I’m told you can get resistant osr seed.
Will st turnips be affected and or can you get resistant varieties etc ???
Any help appreciated

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Frisia and White Star have a high resistance Frisia highest of the two
Try and get the PH over 7

 

[Sir loin]

How many acres of stubble turnips should I sow for my 250 lambs? This will be into grassland after second cut this weekend.

 

[LCF1]

How many acres of stubble turnips should I sow for my 250 lambs? This will be into grassland after second cut this weekend.

As a rule of thumb
100lambs/acre/week

 

[neilo]

How many acres of stubble turnips should I sow for my 250 lambs? This will be into grassland after second cut this weekend.

What sort of winter will we have? My 250 hoggets last year got through 20ac of stubble turnips (DD’ed after Winter Barley) in less than 2 months last winter. The winter before, they’d have lasted twice as long.

 

[ImLost]

What sort of winter will we have? My 250 hoggets last year got through 20ac of stubble turnips (DD’ed after Winter Barley) in less than 2 months last winter. The winter before, they’d have lasted twice as long.

That works out to 100 head/acre/week doesn't it?

 

[LCF1]

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[neilo]

That works out to 100 head/acre/week doesn't it?

My point was that the previous year would have been double that, even though they would have been drilled in the drought of 2018. No two years are the same.

 

[LCF1]

So to be on the safe side I would allow about 100lambs/acre/week[emoji16]

 

[ImLost]

Genuine question, does anyone ever have a problem with growing too much winter fodder and not getting off it in time for spring drilling?

 

[neilo]

Genuine question, does anyone ever have a problem with growing too much winter fodder and not getting off it in time for spring drilling?

It’s never wasted, you can always plough in the biomass and pretend it was one of those fashionable ‘cover crops’.?

I sprayed off & ploughed in the last 2ac of fodder beet this Spring, but only as the price had collapsed so that it would barely have covered the cost of lifting it. I did run a mob of 100 rams onto it but, having lost a cracking ram cast between the rows of beet, I gave up on that idea.

I was talking to somebody the other day that grew 30ac of beet for a digester last year. After a harvesting delay the digester then said that they didn’t want it! He topped the bolting heads off and has been grazing it with ewes and lambs all summer, which has helped him out of a tight spot on a drought prone farm. I’d never have considered doing that.

 

[Mixedupfarmer]

Genuine question, does anyone ever have a problem with growing too much winter fodder and not getting off it in time for spring drilling?

Had a spare field of stubble turnips left this Spring, so combined it for seed.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Genuine question, does anyone ever have a problem with growing too much winter fodder and not getting off it in time for spring drilling?

Nah, you can soon eat it off or just top it and incorporate it somehow.