Anyone else put in a fodder crop into stubble this year?

Dinzee Conlee

Hello,

Anyone else put in rape or turnips into stubble this year? And if so, how did it do?

I put in turnips into barley stubble start sept and they did poorly... took a long time for them to come, and whilst they did come eventually - they are a poor crop... probably only half ways up my wellington at the tallest...

Now - last year was my first year having them, and the crop last year was excellent.
But - given the weather last year exceptional, maybe I am expecting too much?

I have a few pic but need to resize them...

wrangler

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Hello,

Anyone else put in rape or turnips into stubble this year? And if so, how did it do?

I put in turnips into barley stubble start sept and they did poorly... took a long time for them to come, and whilst they did come eventually - they are a poor crop... probably only half ways up my wellington at the tallest...

Now - last year was my first year having them, and the crop last year was excellent.
But - given the weather last year exceptional, maybe I am expecting too much?

I have a few pic but need to resize them...

A lot of autumn reseeds doing poorly as well . athenry has some failures in their catch crops as well

Siamsa Sessions

We set rape in early Sept in a field that we reclaimed from rushes. It was always a bit of a chance to be taking but the rain absolutely ruined it. There’s some leaves of it in the driest parts of the field but the rest is a mess. Lesson learned - the hard way, as usual!

Mooooo

Could be worse, at least there is some cover on it even if it can't be grazed. Will have some value to the ground. Field here with nothing in it

Dinzee Conlee

This is a pic from a few days ago - overall it looks even yellower than I thought, now that I look at it again...
But even when I was walking it, a lot of the leaves had gone a pale yellow kinda colour - what would be the cause do this does anyone know?

Dinzee Conlee

Mooooo wrote: »

Could be worse, at least there is some cover on it even if it can't be grazed. Will have some value to the ground. Field here with nothing in it

No, there will be a bit of feeding in it all right, just not as much as I had hoped...

I was more wondering how others were getting on - but it sounds as though I’m not doing too bad for the year that’s in it maybe...

memorystick

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

This is a pic from a few days ago - overall it looks even yellower than I thought, now that I look at it again...
But even when I was walking it, a lot of the leaves had gone a pale yellow kinda colour - what would be the cause do this does anyone know?

Yellowness maybe from too much moisture.

Tileman

memorystick wrote: »

Yellowness maybe from too much moisture.

Allot of grass even gone yellow around here . Been such a shocking wet autumn

blue5000

Could be lack of Nitrogen DC? In fairness we were spoilt last year with the weather. I sowed redstart 1st of August and it did ok.

Maybe in future broadcast it into a standing crop of barley about a month before cutting might work better, needs a higher seeding rate, and again needs a bit of luck with the weather too.

Dinzee Conlee

blue5000 wrote: »

Could be lack of Nitrogen DC? In fairness we were spoilt last year with the weather. I sowed redstart 1st of August and it did ok.

Maybe in future broadcast it into a standing crop of barley about a month before cutting might work better, needs a higher seeding rate, and again needs a bit of luck with the weather too.

It could be lack of nitrogen Blue - although it got some when it was put out and a bit of CAN again before the deadline, it’s hard to know how much to put out when it’s hasn’t really started growing much...

I tried broadcasting it into standing barley before, to be honest found it a bit of a disaster. I think you need the ground reddened some bit for it to take...
But, it’s very year specific too, what works great one year doesn’t at all the next...

blue5000

Thought about it again during the day. What's the pH and potash levels like? These crops love potash.

Dinzee Conlee

blue5000 wrote: »

Thought about it again during the day. What's the pH and potash levels like? These crops love potash.

I don’t know to be honest Blue, I only have the ground for the winter to grow a fodder crop - I don’t have the grain on it.
As I only have it for the winter, I wouldn’t know what the soil indices are like...

So I am being a bit opportunistic I suppose in a way... I look at it as cheap winter feed...

K.G.

Its not been a great autumn for crops.just been to much rain.good crops of kale around that went in earlier but anything august on is struggling

Dakota Dan

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

This is a pic from a few days ago - overall it looks even yellower than I thought, now that I look at it again...
But even when I was walking it, a lot of the leaves had gone a pale yellow kinda colour - what would be the cause do this does anyone know?

You’d want to be grazing it soon as the pigeons will graze for you, same thing happen here last year with an early sep crop of rape.

Dinzee Conlee

Dakota Dan wrote: »

You’d want to be grazing it soon as the pigeons will graze for you, same thing happen here last year with an early sep crop of rape.

Had planned to go into it around the 20th, so 2 weeks time...

I had tyfon last year and didn’t have an issue with the pigeons, but twould be annoying to see the bit that is there go like that...