Peas

[guest 1]

I think it was 18% . He is a one man band with land in three counties and a lot of stock and very well organised so I think leaving things handy is his major concern . . He can legally store it in an open shed if he has acid on it and it will be vermin proof . What time will you be up to roll it @Tippcon

The last time I rolled something like that I vividly remember lying under the mill at 2 o'clock in the morning poking it out of the auger with a screwdriver and having a lengthy conversation with myself about alternative ways of trying to earn a living.

 

[Bog Man]

The last time I rolled something like that I vividly remember lying under the mill at 2 o'clock in the morning poking it out of the auger with a screwdriver and having a lengthy conversation with myself about alternative ways of trying to earn a living.

We have rolled 100 of tonnes through a mill but the best yoke ever was running it through a Jag with a crimper in .

 

[guest 1]

We have rolled 100 of tonnes through a mill but the best yoke ever was running it through a Jag with a crimper in .

The problem I always found was the rollers should be set fairly wide to roll the peas but they have to be tight to crack the barely so the peas are mashed into a gluey paste that clogs up everything. I believe it was invented by the Chinese as a more extreme form of torture for situations where dripping water on the forehead didn't bring on insanity quickly enough.

 

[Big Vern]

The problem I always found was the rollers should be set fairly wide to roll the peas but they have to be tight to crack the barely so the peas are mashed into a gluey paste that clogs up everything. I believe it was invented by the Chinese as a more extreme form of torture for situations where dripping water on the forehead didn't bring on insanity quickly enough.

That will be why the man who has the mill mix and mix lorry who does our milling has a hammer mill on the lorry then rather than a roller mill, never thought of that about the paste in rollers, ,, every day's a school day, he does barley, wheat, beans, all in same mill, he has done peas for us on the past, but every time we try to grow them they look lovely but then go flat as a turd and drive the boss insane trying to harvest so he won't grow em now,,,

 

[Barrowsider]

Venture peas for human consumption drilled today at 145 kg/ha. Ground just anout right for drilling. Roll & pre-emerge tomorrow hopefully.

 

[Delboy]

@Barrowsider how are you working the scribe mark .Is it off the corner of the bonnet you are judging your width?

 

[Ozzy Scott]

View attachment 53456 View attachment 53457 Ground just anout right for drilling.

you should see the crap some of the rest of use are trying to work

 

[Barrowsider]

@Barrowsider how are you working the scribe mark .Is it off the corner of the bonnet you are judging your width?

Usually work it off the corner of the bonnet, the mudguard lines up fine too. Not as big an issue as I was expecting before we bought the press.

 

[Barrowsider]

you should see the crap some of the rest of use are trying to work

You should see where the father bogged the sprayer to the axles last night :cry:

 

[Blackwater boy]

You should see where the father bogged the sprayer to the axles last night :cry:

Any photo!!!

 

[Blackwater boy]

you should see the crap some of the rest of use are trying to work

Did you get the beet pulled?

 

[Ozzy Scott]

Did you get the beet pulled?

no not yet, sure dont I have the year long to pull it now

 

[muckymanor]

no not yet, sure dont I have the year long to pull it now

Will you have to chop and pit it to keep it?

 

[Ozzy Scott]

Will you have to chop and pit it to keep it?

yip, usually pit with either grains/last years maize or fresh very dry silage. Might try and close a few fields of grass to cut in a months time and pit it with the beet. Good for years once pitted

 

[Ozzy Scott]

@CORK what seed rate to sow peas with barley and undersown to grass. Have peas seed here since last year. I felt it, in me waters, that it would be in short supply this year :rolleyes2:

 

[Cork]

@CORK what seed rate to sow peas with barley and undersown to grass. Have peas seed here since last year. I felt it, in me waters, that it would be in short supply this year :rolleyes2:

50kg/ac of barley & peas when undersowing grass is what we recommend.
75kg/ac if stand alone without grass.

This is based on a 60:40 ratio by weight of barley and peas. Going by “normal “ seed TGW’s that gives 90% barley & 10% peas by seed number.

Seen a number of times where a farmer rings up giving out that the peas never grew; the pigeons were up before he was....!

 

[Becauka]

50kg/ac of barley & peas when undersowing grass is what we recommend.
75kg/ac if stand alone without grass.

This is based on a 60:40 ratio by weight of barley and peas. Going by “normal “ seed TGW’s that gives 90% barley & 10% peas by seed number.

Seen a number of times where a farmer rings up giving out that the peas never grew; the pigeons were up before he was....!

What seeding rate is recommended for peas now? Or into May?

 

[Cork]

What seeding rate is recommended for peas now? Or into May?

I see no reason to change

 

[Becauka]

I see no reason to change

75kg/Ha?

 

[Cork]

75kg/Ha?

I'd be aiming for about 65-70 plants/m2. The TGW of the seed will determine the KG/Ha.

 

[Barrowsider]

Peas beginning to flower so they'll get their first (and perhaps only) fungicide tomorrow weather permitting. A nice even crop that doesn't yet appear to be showing any signs of drought stress. Will be interesting to see how many pods are set per plant.

 

[Cork]

View attachment 55280 Peas beginning to flower so they'll get their first (and perhaps only) fungicide tomorrow weather permitting. A nice even crop that doesn't yet appear to be showing any signs of drought stress. Will be interesting to see how many pods are set per plant.

Gorgeous looking!

My plots were May sown so still very small. Got their graminicide and a lash of Combitop yesterday evening.

 

[Cork]

Some very visual differences in earliness showing in the pea trial plots.

 

[Always Thinking]

Pea crops around here terrible this year, many under 1 ton/acre.

 

[Barrowsider]

Finished cutting the peas yesterday. A perfectly standing crop made the job a breeze, the first time in years cutting without risers on the combine. Nice colour sample but following the trend of the harvest so far, yield was well below the long term average.