Whole crop bales
- Thread starter Seth470
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Dont know where you are but plant now
- Location
- West Somerset
Drill ours in may.
- Location
- South Molton
A mix gives good results. Always spring sown here.
Peas and barley works well on this land. Its about getting the two crops to ripen at the same time. Availability of seed may force your hand. Was followed by a crop for out wintering or a cover crop to go onto spring undersown reseed.
Paper analysis on mixed crops is poor because of the use if NIR do you anayalise as barley or peas? Better if a single crop on that point. Sow at 80 kg an acre?
No desperate hurry as conditions get better. Early spring plantings can suffer with weeds as the crops doesn't get away as fast in cold ground.
Yeilds, well how long is a piece of string, had the odd disaster but the had some massive crops that we couldn't get half of it in the clamp!
- Location
- Near Colchester
Rats will arrive in August
When u harvesting that ?
Rowland
Member
- Location
- Northeast England
Rats will ruin your bales without a doubt. Put it in a clamp if you can with a bit of grass on the top . If you are going to put peas in wait until late April to avoid any hard frosts
- Location
- West Somerset
9/10 weeks later more arable silage than whole crop to be fair, get less rat problems that way, doesn't analyse as well but the young stock love it and do well on it, undersown with a red clover ley
(Apologies for the rat talk)
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
We sometimes do it undersown with a new grass ley works well to be fair.
Sow mid end of April but have done it in may up here.
(I cut the seed rate barley&oats to 50kg acre)
Sow mid end of April but have done it in may up here.
(I cut the seed rate barley&oats to 50kg acre)