What’s stopping me ………

[Pottersfarm]

AHL2 new rate £853/ha
DD option £75/ha

Plant a mix of 6 seeds but with spring wheat in it.

AHL2 rules state you can use fertiliser to make it grow and herbicides to control weeds.

Direct drill in March. Apply 150kg N and a pre-em.

Run the combine through it in August just taking the heads off the wheat and anything else in it. Run that through the cleaners and you’ll have a pile of wheat to sell. All the smaller plants in the mix will still be dropping seeds for the birds.

What am I missing because the rule book is very vague. A couple of tonne an acre of wheat on top of those figures above would be a nice touch.

Just need to choose the seed mix wisely that’s all.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Wont you risk removing the seed of the plants that are their to provide the food
Maize and Sumflowers will be towering about your wheat
Most of these are prety tall

AHL2 / AB9 1 Year Winter Bird Food Seed (Acre Pack) (SFI)

60.0% Spring Triticale

10.0% Spring Barley

6.0% Linseed

5.5% Millet Blend (Red & White)

3.0% Fodder Radish

2.0% Quinoa Blend

3.5% Mustard

4.0% Rebound Rape Kale Hybrid

1.0% Phacelia

5.0% Sunflower Blend

100% (20 kgs per acre)

 

[Chris F]

Wont you risk removing the seed of the plants that are their to provide the food
Maize and Sumflowers will be towering about your wheat
Most of these are prety tall

AHL2 / AB9 1 Year Winter Bird Food Seed (Acre Pack) (SFI)

60.0% Spring Triticale

10.0% Spring Barley

6.0% Linseed

5.5% Millet Blend (Red & White)

3.0% Fodder Radish

2.0% Quinoa Blend

3.5% Mustard

4.0% Rebound Rape Kale Hybrid

1.0% Phacelia

5.0% Sunflower Blend

100% (20 kgs per acre)

Exactly the same mix here: https://www.marketplace.farm/inputs/seed/ahl2-ab9-1-year-winter-bird-food-seed-acre-pack-sfi/

 

[Bignor Farmer]

AHL2 new rate £853/ha
DD option £75/ha

Plant a mix of 6 seeds but with spring wheat in it.

AHL2 rules state you can use fertiliser to make it grow and herbicides to control weeds.

Direct drill in March. Apply 150kg N and a pre-em.

Run the combine through it in August just taking the heads off the wheat and anything else in it. Run that through the cleaners and you’ll have a pile of wheat to sell. All the smaller plants in the mix will still be dropping seeds for the birds.

What am I missing because the rule book is very vague. A couple of tonne an acre of wheat on top of those figures above would be a nice touch.

Just need to choose the seed mix wisely that’s all.

I think that’s a bit of push myself.

What about growing a crop of wheat/barley, being careful with your herbicides and try to broadcast an AHL2 mix into the standing crop in mid-late June?

It’s very moisture dependent, so a bit of a risk, but far more compliant if it works.
If you have a spring start date, spray off 1st March and follow with spring barley (and repeat) or NUM3 and back to wheat?

 

[Hindsight]

AHL2 new rate £853/ha
DD option £75/ha

Plant a mix of 6 seeds but with spring wheat in it.

AHL2 rules state you can use fertiliser to make it grow and herbicides to control weeds.

Direct drill in March. Apply 150kg N and a pre-em.

Run the combine through it in August just taking the heads off the wheat and anything else in it. Run that through the cleaners and you’ll have a pile of wheat to sell. All the smaller plants in the mix will still be dropping seeds for the birds.

What am I missing because the rule book is very vague. A couple of tonne an acre of wheat on top of those figures above would be a nice touch.

Just need to choose the seed mix wisely that’s all.

Have you found a pre em herbicide that will meet those requirements?

 

[Billboy1]

why not dd ahl2 plus no insecticide 393/a have a quite life

 

[Pottersfarm]

Have you found a pre em herbicide that will meet those requirements?

It just says use herbicides to control weeds so they don’t smoother the seed mix.

 

[Hindsight]

It just says use herbicides to control weeds so they don’t smoother the seed mix.

Yes, sorry my question was poorly worded. I intended to ask have you found a herbicide which will be safe on not only your crop but the six species of other plants that will form the AH2 bird seed. And second question are you aiming for Continuous Spring Wheat with AL2 undersown. With the AHL2 ending February 28th, back into Spring Wheat.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Yes, sorry my question was poorly worded. I intended to ask have you found a herbicide which will be safe on not only your crop but the six species of other plants that will form the AH2 bird seed. And second question are you aiming for Continuous Spring Wheat with AL2 undersown. With the AHL2 ending February 28th, back into Spring Wheat.

Find it hard to get a spray for that ,

 

[farmerm]

It just says use herbicides to control weeds so they don’t smoother the seed mix.

Cool, which herbicide/s will take out annual meadow grass, thistles, cleavers, brome, wild oat, mayweed, groundsel and rosebay willowherb but not touch the 6 species in the seed mix?

 

[Hampton]

AHL2 new rate £853/ha
DD option £75/ha

Plant a mix of 6 seeds but with spring wheat in it.

AHL2 rules state you can use fertiliser to make it grow and herbicides to control weeds.

Direct drill in March. Apply 150kg N and a pre-em.

Run the combine through it in August just taking the heads off the wheat and anything else in it. Run that through the cleaners and you’ll have a pile of wheat to sell. All the smaller plants in the mix will still be dropping seeds for the birds.

What am I missing because the rule book is very vague. A couple of tonne an acre of wheat on top of those figures above would be a nice touch.

Just need to choose the seed mix wisely that’s all.

Sanity probably.
What do you think the chances are that the wheat grows taller than the other seeds, yields (without any inputs including N) and produces a decent sample