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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7540008" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Welcome to the forum.</p><p>We are at the stage of considering continuous spring barley direct drilled on the sand and continuous grass on heavy land and everything else. Use the barley straw and barley to feed the cattle and apply the muck to the barley stubbles which maybe has to be lightly worked in to allow drilling.</p><p></p><p>Brassica such as turnips aren’t very reliable here now due to dry summers and flea beetle and get very badly poached during a wet winter. I’d be worried that a beast would choke on a small turnip even if the ground would carry them. Fodder beet is a fairly major undertaking and a lot of work requiring multiple timely herbicides etc.</p><p></p><p>We are trying to keep it simple now.</p><p>A lot depends on what equipment storage and facilities you already have and also the availability of local contractors, but here we have a combine and grain equipment and find modern varieties of spring barley do very well on sand, outperforming all other crops for fairly low input.I’d be inclined to plough if establishing barley after grass as cereals direct drilled into a grass ley seldom work well in our experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7540008, member: 2119"] Welcome to the forum. We are at the stage of considering continuous spring barley direct drilled on the sand and continuous grass on heavy land and everything else. Use the barley straw and barley to feed the cattle and apply the muck to the barley stubbles which maybe has to be lightly worked in to allow drilling. Brassica such as turnips aren’t very reliable here now due to dry summers and flea beetle and get very badly poached during a wet winter. I’d be worried that a beast would choke on a small turnip even if the ground would carry them. Fodder beet is a fairly major undertaking and a lot of work requiring multiple timely herbicides etc. We are trying to keep it simple now. A lot depends on what equipment storage and facilities you already have and also the availability of local contractors, but here we have a combine and grain equipment and find modern varieties of spring barley do very well on sand, outperforming all other crops for fairly low input.I’d be inclined to plough if establishing barley after grass as cereals direct drilled into a grass ley seldom work well in our experience. [/QUOTE]
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