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Forage crop

  • 12-07-2015 12:19pm
    #1
    weatherbyfoxer
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    Looking for a bit of advise lads..have a cut off bit of land about 100m x 80m which is well fenced for sheep which is in old pasture.im thinking of sowing it with somting next month for a bit of winter grazing.have 100-120 ewes that will lamb around the 1st of march and 50 ewe lambs that i plan to lamb around the 1st of april..so if i could sow sumting to help save grass for the spring it would be ideal

    Have the use of a heavy disc harrow and quad slug pellet applacator ...any ideas what i could sow?..thinking of forage rape?..land is good quality also


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  • #2
    Username John
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    Never done it myself - but was looking at doing something after spring wheat, so not for another while...

    This thread has some good info
    http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/forage-rape-stubble-turnips.43070/#post-875260


    This - although it's from one company, has good info too I think.
    http://d1hu4133i4rt3z.cloudfront.net/attachments/102/102856-7b1e0c851ce4d5d5ddb2243df5c0f080.pdf

    We used to have rape here for the sheep when I was very small. Worked good enough, can be a bit messy tho.


  • #3
    weatherbyfoxer
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    Username John wrote: »
    Never done it myself - but was looking at doing something after spring wheat, so not for another while...

    This thread has some good info
    http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/forage-rape-stubble-turnips.43070/#post-875260


    This - although it's from one company, has good info too I think.
    http://d1hu4133i4rt3z.cloudfront.net/attachments/102/102856-7b1e0c851ce4d5d5ddb2243df5c0f080.pdf

    We used to have rape here for the sheep when I was very small. Worked good enough, can be a bit messy tho.

    Cheers for the links there john,rape seems the easiest and cheapest


  • #4
    arctictree
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    Do ye undersow the rape with grass or do ye have to sow grass again in the spring?


  • #5
    Username John
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    arctictree wrote: »
    Do ye undersow the rape with grass or do ye have to sow grass again in the spring?

    As I said - I haven't grown a forage crop (yet) But any one around that does, would also reseed in the Springtime.


  • #6
    Username John
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    weatherbyfoxer wrote: »
    Cheers for the links there john,rape seems the easiest and cheapest

    I like the sound of the mixes - I might try to do that (rape + stubble turnips + kale)

    I wont be doing that much, so if it goes wrong, I wont lose too much... tis as much an experiment as anything else... ;):)


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  • #7
    weatherbyfoxer
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    Username John wrote: »
    I like the sound of the mixes - I might try to do that (rape + stubble turnips + kale)

    I wont be doing that much, so if it goes wrong, I wont lose too much... tis as much an experiment as anything else... ;):)

    Would trying that myself but im not sure if i can so anyting else other than rape next month


  • #8
    DMAXMAN
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    we sow rape every year after winter barley to fatten lambs. has to be sown early to get a good crop,a week can make a fierce difference. a few years ago I was reseeding a field grass to grass and a man told me to put in 1 pound of rapeseed per acre with the grass seed. after a few weeks you would think it was a field of rape,each plant grew as big as the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. did some job on the lambs, but you need to finish them on the rape as they wont thrive after it. also with that crop you would think that someone stole it one night,one day it looked like it had not been touched the next gone!


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