strawhead
5 year old buck +
Last fall was our first year planting LC cereal grain mix. Tried two plots, 1 at low end rye rate and 1 nearing upper rate. We have fairly heavy soil and have always incorporated tilling before planting.(Trying to talk one son into trying less tilling) We had 6ft tall WR. We have a 6ft reverse till land pride tiller. Other than a complete no till(broadcast) of LC brassica into the standing WR and clover, is there any way to get away from having shaft of tiller fill with rye stalks? I have tried to include pics from my computer files, but this 60yr old, all thumbs guy has to wait for some help with that.
WR was cut with a brush hog. Tried single cut, 2 cut , and 3 cut but no difference between them. All of them have long rye stems that tractor tires ran over. We have an 8ft-3pt disc that we tried to cut up stems and do anything. NO DIFFERENCE.
We got the low end rate, 3/4 acre plot done, but with plugging of the tiller 5 times. 1 hour to cut out the wrapped up stems each time. I am concerned about damaging the bearing opposite the drive side on the tiller besides the pain of cutting the wrapped stems.
I did not spray to terminate any thing?
We have another acre to do with the upper rate of WR?
Both plots had rye cut at top of clover last weekend.
Any ideas - experiences for the second plot with what we now have now left?
We have 2 more 1 acre spring oat - clover plots that we wanted to put into the LC cereal grain mix again, but are having second thoughts now?
Any reinforcing thoughts regarding a broadcast of brassica mix and terminating WR and clover that I can pass on to a 34yr old son that will help him understand that we should experiment with a couple different techniques terminating -planting?
Our previous 2 one acre plots of brassicas have been getting cleaned up by December for years now. We have gone from beans and corn to all LC mixes starting last year.
Thanks for any thoughts.
WR was cut with a brush hog. Tried single cut, 2 cut , and 3 cut but no difference between them. All of them have long rye stems that tractor tires ran over. We have an 8ft-3pt disc that we tried to cut up stems and do anything. NO DIFFERENCE.
We got the low end rate, 3/4 acre plot done, but with plugging of the tiller 5 times. 1 hour to cut out the wrapped up stems each time. I am concerned about damaging the bearing opposite the drive side on the tiller besides the pain of cutting the wrapped stems.
I did not spray to terminate any thing?
We have another acre to do with the upper rate of WR?
Both plots had rye cut at top of clover last weekend.
Any ideas - experiences for the second plot with what we now have now left?
We have 2 more 1 acre spring oat - clover plots that we wanted to put into the LC cereal grain mix again, but are having second thoughts now?
Any reinforcing thoughts regarding a broadcast of brassica mix and terminating WR and clover that I can pass on to a 34yr old son that will help him understand that we should experiment with a couple different techniques terminating -planting?
Our previous 2 one acre plots of brassicas have been getting cleaned up by December for years now. We have gone from beans and corn to all LC mixes starting last year.
Thanks for any thoughts.