Cover Crops 3.0

Louis mc

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Time to take it to another level.

Never seen anything like this years covers. Sunflowers and clover are growing for sport all over the place. Tramlines, headlands everything coming perfectly. Usually these fair weather feckers don’t play ball all. Think we can get to maybe 15 species if we put a bit more effort in next year.
Thinking of taking out barley volunteers in a few place where we are going in with a second winter barley, wheat or winter oats. One reason the thick mat of barley behind combine won’t be nice for any of the above to prosper in and 2 there’s plenty of virus on volunteers. Other option is to round up all off in about 2/3 weeks and let it all die away but I’d rather just kill the barley and let the green goodness go on for longer.

With all this diversity in the mix I can’t see how any single soil bourne disease will thrive. Legumes, brassiae, grasses, whatever the hell linseed, sunflower and phacelia are will I’m betting confuse the soil into thinking all is well
 

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Time to take it to another level.

Never seen anything like this years covers. Sunflowers and clover are growing for sport all over the place. Tramlines, headlands everything coming perfectly. Usually these fair weather feckers don’t play ball all. Think we can get to maybe 15 species if we put a bit more effort in next year.
Thinking of taking out barley volunteers in a few place where we are going in with a second winter barley, wheat or winter oats. One reason the thick mat of barley behind combine won’t be nice for any of the above to prosper in and 2 there’s plenty of virus on volunteers. Other option is to round up all off in about 2/3 weeks and let it all die away but I’d rather just kill the barley and let the green goodness go on for longer.

With all this diversity in the mix I can’t see how any single soil bourne disease will thrive. Legumes, brassiae, grasses, whatever the hell linseed, sunflower and phacelia are will I’m betting confuse the soil into thinking all is well

You are truly out standing in your field

When you get to pearly gates St Peter will ask if you brought 750A

Unless @Bog Man get there before you and has job sown up
 
what drill did you use mine much slower
A weaving I think they have, the lads that sowed it I mean. We sowed another few acres with a disc about 10 days later as a comparison.
The boss is fairly set on ploughing it all in now anyway for winter barley, we've had next to no growth since and it hasn't come on.
 
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