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Over Winter stubbles.


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I have been checking around my shooting grounds and seeing whats being drilled and where.

A lot more rape has been drilled than last year.

However, it seems that there is going to be a lot of cereal stubbles left untouched until next year, for Spring drilling.

This should be a good thing, as I have had good Winter bags off stubbles and it also means that I can drive round the fields (subject to the conditions).

 

It could be my imagination, but more fields seem to be being left until Spring nowadays.

Is this happening generally ?

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I have been checking around my shooting grounds and seeing whats being drilled and where.

A lot more rape has been drilled than last year.

However, it seems that there is going to be a lot of cereal stubbles left untouched until next year, for Spring drilling.

This should be a good thing, as I have had good Winter bags off stubbles and it also means that I can drive round the fields (subject to the conditions).

 

 

 

It could be my imagination, but more fields seem to be being left until Spring nowadays.

Is this happening generally ?

It was common for us to over winter fields, since we've employed a contractor the fields are left unworked for very little time now, I have short windows to get out properly in a vehicle.

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Winter stubbles can be great pigeon shooting especially if chickweed gets into it

 

There's a stubble field near me awash with it and bounded by 4 field of sprouting rape but not a pigeon in sight in the last week.

 

Most of them seem to be working the beech wood slopes already.

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As Ditchman says there is still time for winter corn, late sowing depends on your soil type, also late sowing (Oct) also helps reduce the problems with BYDV from aphids and black grass.

 

I've been told by some of the farmers in my area that late sown winter barley will compete better with black grass than winter wheat, so there is still time for winter barley.

 

Less rape this year around here so fields are few and far between which might make numbers hitting fields higher and more likely to come back (I hope) the big woods around here are full of pigeons feeding mainly on acorns.

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i think a lot of winter barley is to go in yet....its not too late.....the old saying is "drunk or sober sow october"..............

 

the rape here is now nearly a foot high...........not a single bird has dropped into it..........

I was always told 'pigeons wont land in rape when its thick and high they like to see the soil'

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