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FIAT 450

FIAT 450

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Can't find a tread and if there is please addmin can you put me there. Getting some ground turned over for spring oats hoping to get in in over the weekend had to come to a tuffer field as boards were dragging like mad in the other field
 

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Oats went in this evening. Husky at 10.5 stone per ac. One of the fields is low in lime so got 3ton of lime yesterday. Had to give the wheel marks a run of a grubber 2st before he showed. Got too dark to take a pic but ground was in good order. Will leave it brush up and ring roll then.
 

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FIAT 450 said:
Oats went in this evening. Husky at 10.5 stone per ac. One of the fields is low in lime so got 3ton of lime yesterday. Had to give the wheel marks a run of a grubber 2st before he showed. Got too dark to take a pic but ground was in good order. Will leave it brush up and ring roll then.
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Straight in with the one pass and no fitting in front?
 
FIAT 450 said:
Oats went in this evening. Husky at 10.5 stone per ac. One of the fields is low in lime so got 3ton of lime yesterday. Had to give the wheel marks a run of a grubber 2st before he showed. Got too dark to take a pic but ground was in good order. Will leave it brush up and ring roll then.
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What make is his front press? Looks fully galvanised.
 
diesel power said:
Is it gone to late for oats?.
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I hope not as we have ten acres to sow at the weekend.
In 2024, we were planting beans on the 24th April (don’t want to do that again).
To lessen the risk and still have a break crop we planted Isabel around the 20th in a couple of fields so as to not have too much late beans.
They touched 4tn/acre at good moisture and were cut in August or the first days of September. Granted, both fields hadn’t grown oats in living memory and I think that makes a difference.
 
Crops said:
I hope not as we have ten acres to sow at the weekend.
In 2024, we were planting beans on the 24th April (don’t want to do that again).
To lessen the risk and still have a break crop we planted Isabel around the 20th in a couple of fields so as to not have too much late beans.
They touched 4tn/acre at good moisture and were cut in August or the first days of September. Granted, both fields hadn’t grown oats in living memory and I think that makes a difference.
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I've a nice bit more then 10 acres I want to put down to oats. I'm hoping to get a start on tomorrow if this drying keeps up.
We might see a bit of dust yet. It's been very lacking these past months.
 
How much N in the seedbed for continuous cereal land out of spring barley? Got cow slurry in the autumn.

Also how much would you put in the seedbed of ley ground that got 4k gallon pig slurry ploughed in?
 
callwaster said:
I thought oats would be fairly weed resistant all by themselves.
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Oats would be much more competitive than barley or wheat but certainly not weed resistant. If you want them weed free then herbicide is required.

Some plants are allelopathic in that they release chemicals to control competing plants, oats do this to some extent. Beech trees also do it.

Someone spotted that the Bottlebrush plant in Australia was very allelopathic so a clever Syngenta chemist copied the chemical and created Calaris which is a very effective and persistent herbicide.

I’ve often wondered how allelopathic some weed species are in a crop outside of their competitive effect in terms of light and nutrients.
 
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