AUTOCAST
Main Uses
Fitting to combine headers / power harrows / cultivators etc.
For Broadcasting of :
Rape Seed
Rape Seed / Slug Pellet mix
Slug Pellets
Stubble Turnips
Mustard
Kale and other Pheasant Cover Crops
Wild Flower mixes
Clover & Grass Seeds.( alternative metering wheels are available on request to increase output)
A GUIDE TO ACHIEVING SUCCESSFUL ESTABLISHMENT
OF OILSEED RAPE UNDER CHOPPED STRAW (2000-01-23)
Introduction
The following information is based on six years experience and experimentation of sowing Oilseed Rape with an Autocast under chopped straw on heavy clay soils in Cambridgeshire. There are other options such as removing the straw, and also light cultivations with or without straw removal which can be as equally and in some cases more successful . There has been feedback from other users of the system over the last three seasons. The following system may be suitable on lighter soils but care must be taken on more organic soils (where manganese deficiency is experienced ) especially sites liable to severe frosts such as river valleys and flood meadows where complete crop kill has been ex
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