Stubble turnips +?

[Banana Bar]

What can I plant with stubble turnips after wheat that once grazed will come back and provide ground cover until spring barley is direct drilled. I would the graze turnips in November / December and drill late February onwards depending on conditions.

BB

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

What can I plant with stubble turnips after wheat that once grazed will come back and provide ground cover until spring barley is direct drilled. I would the graze turnips in November / December and drill late February onwards depending on conditions.

BB

@Kevtherev .

 

[ploughman1963]

Westerwolds grass or similar?

 

[Kevtherev]

Italian ryegrass would be a good cover

 

[Great In Grass]

Spitfire hybrid forage brassica or grass but I'm not sure you'd want a ryegrass in an arable rotation.

 

[Kevtherev]

What's wrong with ryegrass in an arable rotation?:scratchead:
Spray it out or plough it out when desired

 

[Brisel]

It's a bit late for turnips after wheat. Fodder rape, Tyfon or similar aggressive brassica.

When would you plant them? DD after harvest or broadcast into the standing wheat crop in late July?

 

[neilo]

What's wrong with ryegrass in an arable rotation?:scratchead:
Spray it out or plough it out when desired

Some ryegrass is getting resistant to glyphosate.

 

[neilo]

IME, the hybrid rape/kales (Winfred/Swift/Redstart etc) don't grow back much after a hard grazing in the winter, although roots will start to shoot again when it warms up. They are unlikely to provide a worthwhile cover crop IME. IRG/Westerwolds would be about the only thing that would grow, albeit very slowly, between November and February.

 

[Kevtherev]

Some ryegrass is getting resistant to glyphosate.

Plough neil [emoji23]

 

[pine_guy]

What can I plant with stubble turnips after wheat that once grazed will come back and provide ground cover until spring barley is direct drilled. I would the graze turnips in November / December and drill late February onwards depending on conditions.

BB

Can you not graze it later and use the turnips as a cover crop?

 

[Brisel]

 

[tw15]

Our stubble turnips go in straight behind wheat and some have to go in behind spring wheat 150 acres of stubble turnips and 100 acres of cover crops this year. Just have to get out finger out to get everything in quick

 

[Banana Bar]

Can you not graze it later and use the turnips as a cover crop?

Yes but would like it to grow a bit of blackgrass first and a bit of cover would help with run off??

 

[tw15]

Why not just take out the grasses in the turnips with Falcon.

 

[Banana Bar]

Why not just take out the grasses in the turnips with Falcon.

I guess you don't have blackgrass!

 

[tw15]

I guess you don't have blackgrass!

No not a lot a couple of areas in a couple of fields zero tolerance with it here broome is more problematic.

 

[David_A]

How about planting your brassica then taking stock off a bit earlier leaving some greenery behind. Regrowth will then occur slowly and no ryegrass required.

 

[Tim May]

I found using a back fence allowed the land to green up naturally after grazing, you need to have something that will germinate that late in the year, or recover from being grazed I like spring oats. How about as a trial using some spring barley as you will have it in the shed already. then if it grows back well enough you won't need to drill it in the spring and you will get it established well before you could travel on the ground, if not you can kill it, if you don't get it all nobody would know because that is what you are going to plant anyway.

 

[pine_guy]

I'm ahead of the cover crop game here with my AMG problem