Combicrop

jf 850 said:
I'd nearly eat that myself . Looking well lads .

Are ye both going to pit these crops ?

I'd imagine you'd need an awful lot of courage to contemplate combining it ?

Peas can be an awful mess , if the weather isn't in your favour at harvest time .
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The plan is to combine it, only about 2.5 AC here as a trial, I was going to put some in with the wheat for wholecrop but couldn't get the seed early enough. The barley is supposed to keep the peas standing. You'd be hard pushed to knock it at the minute anyway.
 
muckymanor said:
Does the fungicide impact the bees in any way?
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It’s usually best practice to spray the likes of peas or beans that are flowering and full of bees very late in the eve. I don’t think the fungicides have any effect on them tho. It’s the insecticides that are fatal but in general peas or beans do not get sprayed with them and certainly do not get them at flowering time anyway with is a 4-5 week window around June ish
 
My direct drilled combi crop in North Antrim, it has done very well in the last month , after a very slow start in May !

hoping to combine this crop .
 

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agreid said:
The bulldozer operator. I mean combine driver has his work cut out for him self and the patience of Job . He did complement me on stone picking but I’m sure he had a few sweet ones for me as well
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Looks better than our spring barley. Care to share what the yield was like?
 
agreid said:
The bulldozer operator. I mean combine driver has his work cut out for him self and the patience of Job . He did complement me on stone picking but I’m sure he had a few sweet ones for me as well
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By that picture angle , he appears to have done exceptional work getting the crop of the ground. E G ??. Nice and steady too , no big heaps of straw . It looks to have a great crop of straw . Any pictures of the sample , are there many , if any peas present?
 
agreid said:
I’m happy to have it cut I don’t know the yield or the moisture a good amount of peas I think I will try measure the heap tomorrow
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Thanks for the photo.
There can't be many others around these parts who have had the courage to follow through and combine combicrop .

There are 2 fields less than a mile from me that were rented out in either 1985 or 86 to a then young fella at biggish money , and he sowed peas for combining in them . Avonmore pushed the crop one year . 85 and 86 were 2 shocking wet years . He was still trying to persuade the peas through a Clayson 135 on the October Bank Holiday weekend .
A neighbour , now dead, remarked to my father at the time , " Did you ever see anyone trying to put dung through a combine ?" .
He became a legend , for the wrong reasons . He not only lost his shirt , but his underpants as well .
 
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