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Ideal Field Parcel Sizes

  • 10-01-2009 4:09pm
    #1
    Vorak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Hey,

    Would anyone know or know where I could look, to find out the ideal field size for growing wheat, barley and rape seed? In terms of using a combine harvester to harvest the crop once grown, what does this mean for the field layout.

    This is for a project that uses 59 acre piece of industrial wasteland in London. I'm guessing, long strips of fields may be best, the width of which could be a multiple of the area needed for the combine to turn.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Casinoking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    No such thing as ideal field sizes I'm afraid. The bigger the better, rectangular in shape, and parallel sides are your best bet.


  • #3
    Vorak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭Vorak


    Thanks man. I understand the concept of crop rotation. But would a wheat-clover rotation mean you would plant wheat in spring and harvest it in autumn, then straight away plant the clover in the autumn and then harvest it the following spring? So there is always something growing, ie no fallow period, and there are two harvests every 12 months, 1 wheat and 1 clover???


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