I was just tucking into a bowl of buckwheat and was curious what the plant looked like. Ended up here! 😊 Thanks for filming all the process George. Its all quite incredible.
German engineering is great... Love those Claas combines. Ours is from the early 70's (a Senator model imported to the States and sold as a Ford 640 after being painted blue) but it still works great. Love how they put a lever to lock the header onto the feeder house of the combine, much better than the BIL's John Deere 9600 where you have to crawl under to lock the pins in on the feeder house bottom to lock the header on! Rice is the same way as buckwheat, then... Hard indigestible hulls on the grain. Rice is combined to separate the grain front the straw, then the grain is run through a hulling roller mill to split the hulls and separate the kernels of rice from the hulls. The rice hills are then sometimes mixed in cattle rations for roughage, or simply composted for landscaping mulch, used for animal bedding, etc. Later! OL J R
one thing I figured out to clean a combine use a large volume of water. I use a 2.5 inch hose and pump one a thousand gallon tank, open all the traps and engage the combine and shoot water right up the feeder house. Is that what the call it over there? For the grain tank, open the auger trap door and turn on the auger and gush water down into the tank. if you can get the high volume water into the nooks and crannies it should take all of the leftover grain with it. then you can speed the drying process with compressed air where water collects. only downside is it needs a day or so to dry out. good luck!
Thanks very much, Levi! I will definitely give that a go next time. Despite my efforts this year, I still ended up with a very small amount of wheat, barley & lupins in the sample. Not ideal when aiming for being able to test for gluten free (no point this year!). Hopefully your tips will help for next year :-).
So, as a beekeeper I've had success in a couple small quarter acre plots of buckwheat. My bees foraged it good in the morning half of day. Is there a market for the seed? SC.
Hi from Oregon. Can it be cut into windrows and then combined with a belt header like other types of grass seed? Or would it shatter too much like a grain seed? Just curious I want to grow non gmo and non gluten projects.
Yup, you can cut into windrows too. I don’t have the machinery though! We have quite a fortunate microclimate in the South East of the UK, so direct combine is usually okay. Full stop it’s a bit of a pain though, haha!
Last year, after cleaning, it was about 1.2t/ac. But the year before was only 0.5t/ac. I grow some fairly conventional commodity crops: wheat, oilseed rape (canola), beans, peas, linseed. But am also working on trial cereal crops - heritage and ancient wheat and heritage barley - and hemp, lentils and kidney beans.
I also saw some Phecelia in the video, do you do some cover cropping or intercropping? Thank you for the information. Interesting video (informative), keep making them 👍
I was just tucking into a bowl of buckwheat and was curious what the plant looked like. Ended up here! 😊
Thanks for filming all the process George. Its all quite incredible.
same!
Loved your video, thank you so much for sharing!!! Buckwheat is such a fantastic food, great for staying fit and healthy. :)
German engineering is great... Love those Claas combines. Ours is from the early 70's (a Senator model imported to the States and sold as a Ford 640 after being painted blue) but it still works great. Love how they put a lever to lock the header onto the feeder house of the combine, much better than the BIL's John Deere 9600 where you have to crawl under to lock the pins in on the feeder house bottom to lock the header on!
Rice is the same way as buckwheat, then... Hard indigestible hulls on the grain. Rice is combined to separate the grain front the straw, then the grain is run through a hulling roller mill to split the hulls and separate the kernels of rice from the hulls. The rice hills are then sometimes mixed in cattle rations for roughage, or simply composted for landscaping mulch, used for animal bedding, etc.
Later! OL J R
one thing I figured out to clean a combine use a large volume of water. I use a 2.5 inch hose and pump one a thousand gallon tank, open all the traps and engage the combine and shoot water right up the feeder house. Is that what the call it over there? For the grain tank, open the auger trap door and turn on the auger and gush water down into the tank. if you can get the high volume water into the nooks and crannies it should take all of the leftover grain with it. then you can speed the drying process with compressed air where water collects. only downside is it needs a day or so to dry out. good luck!
Thanks very much, Levi! I will definitely give that a go next time. Despite my efforts this year, I still ended up with a very small amount of wheat, barley & lupins in the sample. Not ideal when aiming for being able to test for gluten free (no point this year!). Hopefully your tips will help for next year :-).
I just purchased 53oz of Buckwheat groats off of Amazon 👌🏻
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So, as a beekeeper I've had success in a couple small quarter acre plots of buckwheat. My bees foraged it good in the morning half of day. Is there a market for the seed? SC.
Hi from Oregon. Can it be cut into windrows and then combined with a belt header like other types of grass seed? Or would it shatter too much like a grain seed? Just curious I want to grow non gmo and non gluten projects.
Yup, you can cut into windrows too. I don’t have the machinery though! We have quite a fortunate microclimate in the South East of the UK, so direct combine is usually okay. Full stop it’s a bit of a pain though, haha!
When was that crop drilled? I've drilled some bare headlands a few weeks ago, hoping to grow my own seed for a green manure post cereals.
You might just get lucky, but I doubt you would be harvesting before mid Oct. I seed once frost risk has subsided.
Is it good fodder plant?
Nice vdo
Did you seed buckwheat again in 2019?
Yup. Last year was super for it. I’ll be planting my harvest 20 crop this week.
What was your ave yeild on the acre at the end of the day, if you dont mind me asking? What are some other crops you will compare it with?
Last year, after cleaning, it was about 1.2t/ac. But the year before was only 0.5t/ac. I grow some fairly conventional commodity crops: wheat, oilseed rape (canola), beans, peas, linseed. But am also working on trial cereal crops - heritage and ancient wheat and heritage barley - and hemp, lentils and kidney beans.
I also saw some Phecelia in the video, do you do some cover cropping or intercropping? Thank you for the information. Interesting video (informative), keep making them 👍
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Did anyone get a honey crop as well