cover crops

[headcase]

Spraying off a naturally regenerating cover crop of Vol Oats, Vol SOSR and some Brome.
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winter crop?

 

[gone]

winter crop?

Going to sow winter wheat in a few days, give it a run of the Karat and sow with the Vaddy.

 

[headcase]

Going to sow winter wheat in a few days, give it a run of the Karat and sow with the Vaddy.

If you was going spring crop would it work to just top the cover to keep it alive over winter

 

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If you was going spring crop would it work to just top the cover to keep it alive over winter

Yeah, or a graze by light stock like sheep or small cattle if dry enough.

 

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The hybrid kale and tillage radish is doing very well, there must have been a lot of mustard in the radish seed.

 

[gone]

The leafy turnip and stubble turnip mix is growing a lot of leaf, but is slow bulking up the roots.

 

[gone]

I am grazing one small field of tillage radish and kale hybrid mix with heifers as a trial, not ideal but a dry field.

 

[Blackwater boy]

The tillage radish, fodder rape, leafy turnip and phacelia mix. Planted 7th august. Looks alright. Going to be forced into leaving in calf heifers into it next week for a week as new housing job is not finished yet, I'll leave them wonder 22 acres of it so they should only nibble at it and do little harm with a grass field lie back

 

[Bog Man]

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The tillage radish, fodder rape, leafy turnip and phacelia mix. Planted 7th august. Looks alright. Going to be forced into leaving in calf heifers into it next week for a week as new housing job is not finished yet, I'll leave them wonder 22 acres of it so they should only nibble at it and do little harm with a grass field lie back

Is that a toy quad bike ?

 

[Blackwater boy]

Is that a toy quad bike ?

Yea I'm not old enough to have a real 1 like my dad and big brother. I'm hoping to get 1 from Santa

 

[Cork]

Yea I'm not old enough to have a real 1 like my dad and big brother. I'm hoping to get 1 from Santa

No it’s just the size of your cover crops make the quad look small.

Near Dougal...........Far Dougal......

 

[Blackwater boy]

No it’s just the size of your cover crops make the quad look small.

Near Dougal...........Far Dougal......

Ye must be impressed with my deep tap root......

 

[nashmach]

Ye must be impressed with my deep tap root......

Of course we are, it's one for Twitter

 

[Blackwater boy]

Of course we are, it's one for Twitter

Not a hope, I don't have the lingo to go with the photos so I'll only make a show of myself-when I tell them I'm going to graze it and plough it down!!!!

 

[marco]

Not a hope, I don't have the lingo to go with the photos so I'll only make a show of myself-when I tell them I'm going to graze it and plough it down!!!!

If your going in with a cereal, that would be perfect for direct drilling, especially with a disk

 

[Blackwater boy]

If your going in with a cereal, that would be perfect for direct drilling, especially with a disk

What do you mean by a disk?

 

[headcase]

Disc drill?

 

[marco]

Yes, disk drill

 

[Blackwater boy]

Yes, disk drill

Is a Moore classed as a disc drill?

 

[marco]

it sure is, moore, john deere, crosslot, weaving, duncan have one as well, horsch and sumo. theres probably others.

 

[Blackwater boy]

it sure is, moore, john deere, crosslot, weaving, duncan have one as well, horsch and sumo. theres probably others.

There is a Moore locally so might try a bit with that

 

[marco]

There is a Moore locally so might try a bit with that

What size is the field? You could do a half and half.

 

[Blackwater boy]

What size is the field? You could do a half and half.

22 acres for spring barley. It's due to get either slurry or dung so compaction with tanks etc may be an issue. It got 2k gallons the day after sowing the cover crop so it looks like it stood to it

 

[Bog Man]

Magic Mix

 

[marco]

Magic Mix
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will you sow straight into the cover john? or will you till?