[Jc1998]

Hello everyone,

Have been wondering a little about what growing a mixture of oats and peas for grain production would be like.

Has anyone tried it? Any idea what the yields were for each crop once separated? And how hard was it to separate?

I am already growing oats but always thought this could be an interesting combo. Would have to be worth it financially, obviously.


Thanks!

 

[Dan Vanderwell]

Hi jc.

I'm thinking that the peas will be ready before the oats. And when peas are ready and you can go, you do.

Unless you want to grow 40-10 silage peas. They're a real long season variety. Used to grow them for seed but realized my sanity was worth more.

 

[dwh039]

that sounds like a weedy mess waiting to happen. You would be better off with polish canola and use edge or an early variety of Clearfield canola.

 

[X80]

The Poms, grow canola and peas, the canola helps the peas stand up, they desiccate it and harvest, they call it peola. Canola very easy to separate out of peas.

Oats and peas good silage mix!!

Ant...

 

[brazil07]

crop insurance - again

People will start thinking I work for these guys, but what makes the mixed grains a non-starter when I have looked at it is crop insurance - or lack thereof. Would be ways of working around this, but this was good enough excuse for me to stop considering.

 

[Jc1998]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

I never really considered the maturity dates. We don't have a ton of experience with peas, so I wasn't sure how big of a factor that would be.


Canola is an interesting option that I was considering as well, and it sounds like that would be the way to go. Would be with Clearfield canola as we are contracted in for a bunch of it this year.

Anyone have experience with that? Just felt it would be hard with shattering from swathing, ect. Desiccating to straight cut wouldn't be the best option as the canola is for seed.

Thanks again,

-JC

 

[brazil07]

Use Heat for desiccation and should have no prbms for seed.

 

[montana]

I did this once buy accident want to put a couple strips of oats on edge of field . I ended up forgetting to shut off a tank that had peas in it.... I never spray any thing on it. Stayed super clean seemed like they were both ready at same time. I think oats did help peas stay up right . I think the shade maybe extended the pea maturity....? I did not separate them sold as feed I think it would be pretty easy to separate. I plan on trying it on purpace this year. We'll see how it goes.