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Field 15: Kaski

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Field 15
Kaski

Basic field information

Area: 1.64 hectares
Soil type: medium fine-sandy moraine (mHtMr)

Diverse field, with a moist eastern edge. Due to its difficult shape, usually used as pasture.

Crop rotation

2026 Pasture
2025 Silage grass
2024 Mixed crops (barley-oat-miscellaneous)

Cultivation practices

Pasture
6.5.2026 Fertilization, Nevel luomuravinne 18 tn/ha
29.5.2026 Cleaning cut
4.8.2026 Cleaning cut

Growth observation

kaski 2.6.2026
2.6.2026 Some northern dock’s are still standing even though the field has been mowed.
kaski 11.6.2026
11.6.2026 Aerial view of the field.
kaski 23.6.2026
23.6.2026 Grass has started new growth after cleaning cut.
kaski 29.6.2026
29.6.2026 Grass has not grown much on the pasture.
kaski 8.7.2026
8.7.2026 The growth of the pasture has improved.
kaski 11.8.2026
11.8.2026 The field has been cut clean.

Cultivation measures

Silage grass
27.6.2025 Fertilization, cattle slurry 34 tn/ha

7.7.2025


23.7.2025

Cultivation measures

Mixed crop
17.5.2024 Fertilization, cattle slurry 16 tn/ha
18.5.2024 Plowing
20.5.2024 Harrowing with a flexible tine harrow
20.5.2024 Sowing: 125 kg/ha of Harmony oat, 113 kg/ha of Feedway barley, and 30 kg/ha of Naturcom Grazing Mixture
8.8.2024 Baling, yield 244 kg DM/ha

19.6.2024
5.7.2024
22.7.2024

Cultivation measures

Pasture
8.5.2023 Fertilization, cattle slurry 22th/ha

Cultivation measures

Pasture
6.5.2022 Fertilization, cattle slurry 20 tn/ha
19.7.2022 Supplementary sowing, Pasture grass mixture

Cultivation measures

Pasture
16.5.2021 Fertilization, cattle slurry 20.2tn/ha
1.6.2021 Cleaning cut

Cultivation measures

Pasture

Cultivation measures

Silage grass
27.4.2019 Fertilization, cattle slurry 20 tn/ha
6.5.2019 Disc harrowing, 2 times
8.5.2019 Sowing, (rye 36.4 kg/ha, bird’s-foot trefoil 0.5 kg/ha, Caraway 0.5 kg/ha, Chicory 0.5 kg/ha, Perennial forage grass mixture 27 kg/ha)
5.8.2019 Mowing, observations: lots of scentless mayweed

Cultivation measures

Barley
18.5.2018 Leveling harrowing
24.5.2018 Harrowing
22.5.2018 Sowing, barley 200 kg/ha
25.5.2018 Sowing, perennial white clover 2 kg/ha + Grass seed mix 35% timothy, 20% smooth meadow-grass, 15% meadow fescue, 15% English ryegrass, 5% tall fescue, 5% festulolium, 5% red fescue 20 kg/ha
3.9.2018 Harvesting 2960 kg/ha

Cultivation measures


The plot is a nature conservation field. The plot was plowed in autumn 2017.

Cultivation measures


The plot is a nature conservation field.

Soil fertility analysis result on 26.11.2021:

Sampling line:

Soil fertility analysis result on 2.5.2018:

2026 Pasture
2025 Silage grass
2024 Mixed crop (barley+oats+miscellaneous)
2023 Pasture
2022 Pasture
2021 Pasture
2020 Pasture
2019 Pasture
2018 Barley Elmeri (cover crop)
2017 Nature conservation field
2016 Nature conservation field