The mixture of sunshine and rain has been bringing on a lot of crops…
- Second Year Hard Horse Hay
Second year Hard Horse Hay mix enjoying some sunshine and starting to take up its early nitrogen. The Hard Horse Hay is a 2 year mixture, normally sown in the autumn. It will provide two haylage crops or a high quality hay crop. The hay sample is coarse and has been used in the racehorse market for many years.
https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/products/754/hard-horse-hay-two-year-ley
- Spring Sown Westerwold Hay Mix
Spring Sown Westerwold Hay Mix: The seedlings were glad to have a drop of rain at the weekend.This mix will provide a full hay crop from a spring sowing (if making silage choose MIXQB). The Westerwold is proving a popular alternative to a spring cereal, rather than leaving fields fallow, to square up the rotation and get back to an autumn sown cereal later in the season.
https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/products/2721/westerwold-hay-mixture
- Lucerne and grass stand - will be cut for haylage or hay
A Lucerne and grass stand which will be cut for haylage or hay. Lucerne can be a very useful, low input crop for dry, naturally alkaline land. It is used for silage, hay or haylage. Keep an eye on P & K levels as these can be depleted due to multiple cuts being taken each year.
https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/products/1583/marshal-lucerne-medicago-sativa
Date Posted: 21st April 2020