Swede seed rate

[glasshouse]

What is seed rate for precision drilled swedes

 

[Kevtherev]

Graded seed recommended is 500g
Depending on row spacing and drill type the guide I’ve put below may help.

 

[Kevtherev]

Per acre

 

[hoyboy]

It will depend on seed spacing and row width. There was once a chart for this on the back of a certain brand of seed. Hopefully it is published online somewhere or someone here may have it? I was looking for this a few days ago too.

 

[Kevtherev]

It will depend on seed spacing and row width. There was once a chart for this on the back of a certain brand of seed. Hopefully it is published online somewhere or someone here may have it? I was looking for this a few days ago too.

Got it here give me a min….

 

[Derrick Hughes]

44.000 same as fodder beet

 

[Kevtherev]

 

[Derrick Hughes]

A kg should do 6 acres
I was on 24 inch rows 6 inch spacing

 

[Jon Boy]

We usually plant at 85,000 per /ha on 500mm spacing seems to work very well .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

We usually plant at 85,000 per /ha on 500mm spacing seems to work very well .

My Beet harvester was set at 24 inch sow I sowed to that

 

[FarmerBruce]

@Spencer

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Just a bit of boring history
I had the full kit for swede growing
12 row converted Stanhay folding drill , Standen Beet Harvest later Tim
Interrow how Row crops etc

Grew around 40 acres every year as main winter feed for 3000 ewes
Yield was massive but imput costs were high , 100 units potash for a start
Of all the crops I ever grew swedes were the most rewarding , if you put the effort it you would get the tonage out, but we do live in a wetter area of the Country and Swedes won't do without a fair bit of rain
Fodder beet would not do here , don't know why but I did try

 

[neilo]

Just a bit of boring history
I had the full kit for swede growing
12 row converted Stanhay folding drill , Standen Beet Harvest later Tim
Interrow how Row crops etc

Grew around 40 acres every year as main winter feed for 3000 ewes
Yield was massive but imput costs were high , 100 units potash for a start
Of all the crops I ever grew swedes were the most rewarding , if you put the effort it you would get the tonage out, but we do live in a wetter area of the Country and Swedes won't do without a fair bit of rain
Fodder beet would not do here , don't know why but I did try

That Potash wasn’t lost though, if you fed the resultant crop to your livestock. It will have been recycled back to the ground.

We have seen K indexes lift nicely where we have grazed fodder beet or swedes in situ. It is just adding nutrients to the cycle in my view, allowing reduced inputs elsewhere in the rotation.

 

[michael N123]

Just a bit of boring history
I had the full kit for swede growing
12 row converted Stanhay folding drill , Standen Beet Harvest later Tim
Interrow how Row crops etc

Grew around 40 acres every year as main winter feed for 3000 ewes
Yield was massive but imput costs were high , 100 units potash for a start
Of all the crops I ever grew swedes were the most rewarding , if you put the effort it you would get the tonage out, but we do live in a wetter area of the Country and Swedes won't do without a fair bit of rain
Fodder beet would not do here , don't know why but I did try

I put quite a bit of stubble turnips in but gave up trying to grow proper swedes as got to many bad crops

always put a field into fodder beet as it’s guaranteed a decent crop on my farm costs abit in sprays tho

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I put quite a bit of stubble turnips in but gave up trying to grow proper swedes as got to many bad crops

always put a field into fodder beet as it’s guaranteed a decent crop on my farm costs abit in sprays tho

Think fodder beet works better in dry conditions and yes you can spray , swedes are useless in a dirty field

 

[Wjb7030]

What chemical weed control do you use for swedes nowadays?? Just a pre emergence?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

What chemical weed control do you use for swedes nowadays?? Just a pre emergence?

Don't think there is anything and the old pre em would not touch Charlock

 

[Great In Grass]

LG tell that they now hold forward orders equal to the expected harvestable crop of Samson Stubble Turnips for this season.

Once the seed crops have been harvested and processed LG will return to the market with any surplus seed that they can offer.

Alternatives for now are:
Rondo Stubble Turnips – still to be harvested
Meat Maker & Autumn Keep Brassica Mixtures – available now

 

[Devil's advocate]

What chemical weed control do you use for swedes nowadays?? Just a pre emergence?

Butisan S
Gamit
Dual Gold

Sheild post em

Laser for grass weeds