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anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
seth47591
Posted 3/14/2011 17:45 (#1669979)
Subject: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
I am interested in growing some tillage radish seed is anyone on here doing it?
thanks
When do you plant for seed?
what is the seed yield per acre?
Edited by seth47591 3/14/2011 20:01
JimmyR52
Posted 3/14/2011 17:51 (#1669987 - in reply to #1669979)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Mooresville North Carolina
sgroff and grasseed. JohnW
Posted 3/14/2011 17:55 (#1669992 - in reply to #1669987)
Subject: Grasseed....
NW Washington
Grasseed in Oregon grows radish seed. Here are pictures of him planting them.
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=92711&posts=13... Orfarmer
Posted 3/14/2011 20:48 (#1670312 - in reply to #1669979)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Roanoke, INRoanoke, IN
Grew some last year. Plant early as soon as ground is dry
(think oats
) Yielded around 900 lb./ac. The work isn't in growing them, it is in cleaning out equipment and the seed. seth47591
Posted 3/14/2011 20:54 (#1670337 - in reply to #1670312)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
when where you able to harvest them? pat-michigan
Posted 3/14/2011 21:40 (#1670479 - in reply to #1669979)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Thumb of Michigan
Fair amount of seed planted in this area. First thing that gets planted. Fertilize like you would wheat. No chem's labeled for post, I never saw anything that wouldn't hurt the plant more than I thought prudent. Usually terminate it with Gramoxone or sometimes glyphosate in early August. Extremely indeterminate plant, really needs to be desiccated or maybe swathed. Never tried that, don't have a swather. We direct cut with a flex head, combine and trucks need to be almost able to hold water to keep seed in. We liked to clean them if we could. I've seen anywhere from 600# to 1200# clean per acre. mhalter
Posted 3/14/2011 22:10 (#1670602 - in reply to #1670337)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Vincennes, IN
I grew 4 acres last year. That turned out to be waaaay more than I needed, otherwise it worked out well. Drilled them about this time
(Mid March
) and used trifluralin for herbicide. Only downside was the local seed cleaner wouldn't clean them because he was backed up cleaning wheat. We ended up cleaning them with an old clipper and they were clean enough to plant with kinze meters and milo plates. I harvested them the first or second week of August but they could have been harvested two weeks earlier but I was too busy with vegetables. I would have gotten a much better yeild because by the time I got to them half or more of the pods were at the ground and I couldn't get them. All in all, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle especially since we are precision seeding them with a planter
(3-4lbs per acre
) and I am going to just buy seed from now on unless we start drilling them. If you have plenty of time in the summer it would be worth it, especially if you are drilling or broadcasting them for cover since you will use alot more seed per acre. In our area, I think you could harvest them in time to plant some late soybeans most years. They sure get alot of attention when they flower
(from the neighbors and the butterflies!
) and I had many many people tell me I was crazy or it couldn't be done. Felt good to prove them wrong. Now if we only would have had enough moisture for them to do anything as a cover this last fall.....
Edited by mhalter 3/14/2011 22:16
Grasseed
Posted 3/15/2011 00:38 (#1670993 - in reply to #1669979)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Suver, OregonSuver, Oregon
I'm not growing the "tillage brand" anymore, but I'm still growing radish.
There is plenty of good advice already posted. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.
Garth seth47591
Posted 3/15/2011 14:55 (#1671718 - in reply to #1670602)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
I was thinking of broadcasting them and not even cleaning the seed and work in with fall fertilizer ahead of corn. Ed Winkle
Posted 3/15/2011 17:11 (#1671852 - in reply to #1669979)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Martinsville, Ohio
Seth you would be better off buying it from Garth or Steve. Garth is grower direct. We don't have the climate or equipment to grow small seed but you ought to plant a plot and harvest it just to see what I mean.
Ed Ed Winkle
Posted 3/15/2011 17:15 (#1671858 - in reply to #1670479)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Martinsville, Ohio
I don't remember you telling me that Pat but I am sure you did.
At even a 600 lb yield at $3 seed that is an $1800 crop, pretty good.
Maybe Seth is on to something. We are just too far south here I think and it's a bugger to manage dessication and swathing and harvest with our weather.
Oregon and the South Island of New Zealand is about perfect.
Ed mhalter
Posted 3/15/2011 17:33 (#1671885 - in reply to #1671718)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Vincennes, IN
If you going to broadcast them for cover then I would definately grow them on your own. At 3-3.25 a pound that would be $90-100 an acre. You need to get them planted now though. I cut mine with a JD 7720 and a flex head, no need to swath them. I did have to kill them with gramaxone as others have said. Here again, I love it when people say it can't be done in our climate. I did it last year and from the looks of your mapdot, I'm in the same town as you. mhalter
Posted 3/15/2011 17:34 (#1671888 - in reply to #1671718)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Vincennes, IN
I think I would still clean them even if you are just broadcasting them. Otherwise you're going to be broadcasting some weed seed with them. pat-michigan
Posted 3/15/2011 17:40 (#1671897 - in reply to #1671858)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Thumb of Michigan
All the certified seed planted here comes from Germany, Ed. seth47591
Posted 3/15/2011 18:43 (#1671981 - in reply to #1671852)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
Ed
I live in the same town as Mhalter but the farm is west in IL. He was able to grow some for seed. We have grown and harvested clover seed and it sounds from others advise that it will be very simialar. If I do it it will only be 1-3 acres.
my thinking was to broadcast the tillage radish and then possibly plant other cover crops into that depending on the planned crop for next year. Ed Winkle
Posted 3/15/2011 20:40 (#1672165 - in reply to #1671981)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Martinsville, Ohio
OK. Wouldn't you want to precision seed it at low seed rates like Dave Brandt does with his White planter so it matures more evenly and you have more room for management? I guess I mean space between the 15 inch rows...
Ed seth47591
Posted 3/15/2011 20:45 (#1672178 - in reply to #1672165)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
yes I would and eventually that could be the plan but that requires capital to spent that I am not ready to spend seth47591
Posted 3/20/2011 18:40 (#1680684 - in reply to #1671888)
Subject: RE: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Monticello IL
Do you have any seed left over that you would sell? pat-michigan
Posted 3/21/2011 14:24 (#1682001 - in reply to #1672165)
Subject: Re: anyone growing tillage radishes for seed
Thumb of Michigan
Ed Winkle - 3/15/2011 20:40
OK. Wouldn't you want to precision seed it at low seed rates like Dave Brandt does with his White planter so it matures more evenly and you have more room for management? I guess I mean space between the 15 inch rows...
Ed
Ed, its EXTREMELY indeterminate- I don't think row width makes any difference. First year we grew it, we got it 3 days away from harvest 4 times starting in late September. Finally harvested it on Dec 4, but not because it was ripe. There was a blizzard coming in, didn't want to do a salvage operation. Quite a few acres grown for seed in this area every year, it always takes a desiccant to make it ripe. Not a big deal to grow it, for the value of the crop its worth the effort. Same variety I grow has been grown in Southern Kansas, they have to desiccate there as well.