Agree totally any reseeding done here since 08 has performed very poorly.I consider most of the reseeding done over the last 2 years as very poor. Probably weather and the seedlings making a bad start, serious wild grass in a couple of the short rotation fields. question is whether to reseed if only a one or two year ley, will probably reseed along with all the rest of the seeding. Allot of the seed over the last few years has been very poor quality wise and it all cost big money
@tmkf what would you use the post emergence for? not used anything here ever. have had patches of chickweed etc but nothing the topper and grazing didn't sort out!
Planning on reseeding a bit of silage ground this spring would have done it in the harvest but it was so wet. How early could you go setting it this spring as would still like to get 2 cut`s off it.
Agree totally any reseeding done here since 08 has performed very poorly.
We have reseeded ground going on twentys years in production which is still way ahead in yield compared to the newer ground.
One field reseeded here in 2011 was grazed three times in 2012.
Is it poor seed/weather or soil fertility or a combination of all three.
What mixes people going for?
what are you farming will determin that,not whats popular
I've found that the powerharrow tends to leave the field a bit wetter compared to other methods of working the soil down, triple k, discing.
dont cross the runs ffsHave 25 acres sprayed off with Roundup and scrub killer. Will plough as we're on heavy soil. Anything we sowed in last 18 months looks poor enough TBH, one field in particular which would be very wet is disasterous with the grass having died out of the wetter areas of it completely, we reckon the roots wern't established deep enough before the wet weather, and rotted from being.swamped. Newer grasses did perform better last year though, anything over 10 yrs old seriously lagged behind.
Tilling will be one run of the roller, 2 runs of the triple K harrow (one lenght ways, the second crossing) then in with one run of the one pass, then ring rolled as we're on sticky soil.
dont cross the runs ffs
just angle it not cross it
Have crossed latter years and found it a great success!! But yea, maybe a slight angle might be more anserable. My experience has been that if you just work along with the way it was ploughed, it's a right hoor whenever you cross the field for fertiliser spreading mowing etc. in time.
Have about 8 acres used for silage permenant pasture fairly level,going to reseed this year plough it after taking silage of it would i need to spray it before cutting silage or would i get away with just ploughing it in after silage is made.Thanks.
Have about 8 acres used for silage permenant pasture fairly level,going to reseed this year plough it after taking silage of it would i need to spray it before cutting silage or would i get away with just ploughing it in after silage is made.Thanks.
Have about 8 acres used for silage permenant pasture fairly level,going to reseed this year plough it after taking silage of it would i need to spray it before cutting silage or would i get away with just ploughing it in after silage is made.Thanks.