I've heard of catch crops but no practical experience.
My rotation is:
Wheat inc straw, then plough
Barley inc straw
Corn (or Sunflowers)
OSR (Canola), then plough
Wheat
Soybeans
I am trying out planting Oilseed Radish in June after the Barley harvest is gathered including big baling straw and removing it from the field. I have one of those all-singing-all-dancing drills (a Terrasem C6F) which can disc, fert and seed. I am guessing, because its Oilseed Radish there is no point whatsoever in putting fert into the drill too, to be applied with it? And that come March/April when the Corn (or Sunflowers) are planted, I can simply disc over the Oilseed Radish (AND include my fert this time, for a 100% fert due to the 50% already there from the catch crop), I don't need to mulch or plough at this point. In fact, would ploughing wipe out the benefit?
Strategy incorporating Oilseed Radish
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Re: Strategy incorporating Oilseed Radish
It's worth mulching the oilseed radish as just mulching gives you a yield boost and so does rolling even if there isn't stones.
So I'd mulch sow and roll that should get you to 100% fert
And if you need to plough you can do that after you mulch it won't remove the fertiliser level.
And lime as well before sowing...
So I'd mulch sow and roll that should get you to 100% fert
And if you need to plough you can do that after you mulch it won't remove the fertiliser level.
And lime as well before sowing...
Re: Strategy incorporating Oilseed Radish
Lime is every 3 years? I don't actually own a lime spreader, frustratingly the smaller solid fert spreaders don't do lime (in the game) and the bigger ones, are a bit superfluous what with the combi drill and a sprayer tractor too (which is kept busy on extra contract work and a brilliant investment).
On the one hand, it may be worth evenly distributing the lime spreading requirement throughout the rotation, on the other hand there is a small equipment lease cost saving (but a busy summer period) if I deliberately align them all to need liming on 1 year out of 3.
On the one hand, it may be worth evenly distributing the lime spreading requirement throughout the rotation, on the other hand there is a small equipment lease cost saving (but a busy summer period) if I deliberately align them all to need liming on 1 year out of 3.
Re: Strategy incorporating Oilseed Radish
Problem is this is not seasons from FS19. Its a vastly downgraded version. Maybe this changes with the precision mod? Who knows. So crop rotation adds nothing and you have fixed static requirements.
So always plow after the 4 crops that require it, always lime every 3 years.
A cultivator with a APV seeder or similar seems to work well in terms of saving a run there and its cheaper than fertilizer.
So always plow after the 4 crops that require it, always lime every 3 years.
A cultivator with a APV seeder or similar seems to work well in terms of saving a run there and its cheaper than fertilizer.
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