Field 3 Lamminranta

Cultivation procedures

Wheat + grass seed
6.5.2023 Harrowing
8.5.2023 Fertilizer, slurry cow manure, 32 th/ha
9.5.2023 Harrowing
10.5.2023 Sowing, wheat Leijona, 235 kg/ha
14.5.2023 Sowing, grass mix, 30 kg/ha
8.9.2023 Threshing, yield 2630 kg/ha

Canasta – recycling fertilisation test
The experiment monitors the effect of recycled fertilizer on the crop and to enhance the effect of fertilizer with Combooster – an activation solution. Two field-scale test areas were established two lines which have different amount of fertilizer.

10.5.2023 Fertilizing: Fertilex 6-1-2; Area A; 1000 kg/ha and area B: 500 kg/ha
11.5.2023 Combooster – treatment in dry ground, 1l/54m2
16.5.2023 Combooster -treatment in wet ground, 1l/54m2

From experimental areas to observation weekly leaf green (SPAD), density of twigs, number of side shoots, height of vegetation, rich pcs/m2 and pests. The amount of leafy green varied more in the control area than in the treated experimental areas. The amount of leafy green was at its highest in all areas at the end of July but decreased faster in the treated experimental areas in August.

Samples were harvested from a distance of 100m from the experimental plots, and with the width of the harvester’s cutting table being 3m, a harvest was obtained from an area of 300m2. In the experimental area, where the Fertilex fertilization level was 60 kgN/ha, the yield was 191 kg, which corresponds to a yield of 6367 kg per hectare. In the experimental area, where the fertilization level was 30 kgN/ha, the yield was slightly lower at 190.5 kg, which corresponds to a yield of 6350 kg per hectare. The yield of the experimental area fertilized with sludge manure alone was 151.5 kg, which corresponds to a yield of 5050 kg per hectare. Based on the results, the best yield was obtained with Fertilex 6-1-2 fertilization and cattle slurry, although there was no big difference between the Fertilex treatments.

Cultivation procedures

Intercropping, fava bean, oat
16.5.2022 Harrowing
18.5.2022 Sowing: fava bean, oat
25.5.2022 Sowing: grass seed

Experiments

In the growing season of 2022, intercropping was experimented on the field (fava bean – wheat + ground cover crop).
More information from the information card.

Map about the expreriment on the field, 2022

Cultivation procedures

Autumn wheat, Ceylon
16.5.2021 Fertilizer, slurry cow manure 20 tn/ha
25.5.2021 Harrowing weeds and sowing cover crop, white clover 2,5 kg/ha
24.7.2021 Threshing, yield 16 600 kg, 3739 kg/ha
7.8.2021 Collecting straws

Research and experiments

Finishing grass and spreading soil improvement fiber was researched on the field in 2020-2021. Further information can be found from the report.

Cultivation procedures

Perennial silage grass
4.5.2020 Fertilizer, slurry cow manure 25 m3/ha
13.6.2020 Mowing
13.6.2020 Swathing
13.6.2020 Harvesting silage
15.6.2020 Fertilizer, slurry cow manure 15tn/ha
24.6.2020 Irrigation
28.7.2020 Harvesting silage, yield 2324 kg/ha
3.8.2020 Soil improvement fiber Soilfood 50 tn/ha (1.8 ha area)
14.8.-2.9.2020 Disc harrowing
28.8.-2.9.2020 Harrowing, goosefoot harrow
1.-2.9.2020 Sowing, autumn wheat Ceylon, 285 kg/ha

Soil NIR-analysis (27.11.2020)

Sampling line 2020

2019 Silage grass
2018 Barley Elmeri (protective crop), silage grass
2017 Spring wheat, Amaretto, silage grass
2016 Barley Elmeri
2015 Oat
2014 Spring wheat
2013 Perennial silage grass
2012 Perennial silage grass
2011 Perennial silage grass
2010 Perennial silage grass