Let you off then....
Stubble Turnips.
- Thread starter CopperBeech
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Can't you get cage muck down thereLet you off then....
Not much in this part of the world. One or two big egg producers in the County, but they use the muck themselves, I think.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Not knocking your product FT, but can anyone that is trading other people's straw really guarantee that?
- Location
- Ceredigion
NoNot knocking your product FT, but can anyone that is trading other people's straw really guarantee that?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Anyone growing typhon?
Used to see quite a bit but rarely see it now
Used to see quite a bit but rarely see it now
Mostly typhon bit of Maris kestrel bit of green globe; being grazed now will be double cropped similar mix to provide winter keep. Lambs at other end of same field want to get it planted within next 30 days.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Whitestar stubble turnip
markpentre
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- Location
- wrexham
How long left to put this type of crop in to winter some stores late autum?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
You can sow stubble turnips right up into September but later on if the season isn't favourable they sometimes don't amount to a big crop
- Location
- Cornwall.
Cheap energy crop.
Would turnips need more nitrogen if DD as opposed to ploughing? Thinking there won't be such a breakdown of soil N following PP if it's not ploughed.
Looking in my copy ofRB209 and it recommends 100kg/ha N at index 0, 75 at index 1 and 50 at index 2, but I guess with the age of the copy (1994), it would be based on ploughed land.
On the other hand I suppose with DD all the sheep sh!t on the surface will be available!
- Location
- Cornwall.
I've attached the current RB209 (May 2107) for grass and forage crops, it's split into different sections now.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
That will work just fine
You could cut the turnips down slightly if you wanted[emoji106]
- Location
- Cornwall.
We all have our own ideas but as Kev said I'd cut the turnips back 1kg/acre would be plenty therefore a 2kg/acre mixture.
Is the mix being drilled in?
Broadcast in with a guttler greenmaster.
Would this justify the extra kilo???
Originally the plan was to put 100% stubble turnips but seeing that this is my first time at this sort of forage crop, I thought I'd try a bit of hybrid and kale to see how it bulked out
Would this justify the extra kilo???
Originally the plan was to put 100% stubble turnips but seeing that this is my first time at this sort of forage crop, I thought I'd try a bit of hybrid and kale to see how it bulked out
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
For the extra cost of a kilo of turnips it's your decision.
Sowing them at a higher rate the bulbs don't grow to their full potential.
1.5-2 kg per acre is usually plenty but some sow them higher when broadcasting
Sowing them at a higher rate the bulbs don't grow to their full potential.
1.5-2 kg per acre is usually plenty but some sow them higher when broadcasting
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
As above, 1.5-2kg/ac is more than enough. Any higher and you will end up with all leaf and very little bulb, which is higher DM & energy. Personally I'd drop the kale out, not least as it's dear seed comparatively, but it won't add much yield over the Redstart when it's drilled this late.