Field 5: Kuusiaita
The block information contains basic information about the block and events during the growing season, observations, and yield data.
Field 5
Kuusiaita
Block basic information
Area: 1.54 hectares
Soil type: rich loamy clay (rmHeS)
The block is geologically flat, partly steep and borders Riuskanoja on its eastern edge. The block is shaded by a tall spruce hedge on its western edge.
Crop Rotation
2025 Silage Grass
2024 Silage Grass
2023 Silage Grass
Research and Trials
2022 Organic Farming
Cultivation measures
Silage grass
27.6.2025 Fertilization, cattle slurry 34 tn/ha
7.7.2025
21.7.2025
Cultivation measures
Silage grass field
12.6. Cleaning mowing
29.7. Cleaning mowing
The block has been selected for block-specific measures for environmental compensation and ecosystem.
Cultivation measures
Haylage grass
14.6.2023 Harvesting haylage into bales, 2521.07 kg per hectare
25.7.2023 Harvesting haylage into bales, 3358.93 kg per hectare
Cultivation measures
Mixed vegetation
15.5.2022 Levelling
16.5.2022 Fertilization, cattle manure 20tn/ha
17.5.2022 Harrowing
18.5.2022 Seeding: Oats, Matty 150kg/ha, Wheat, Leijona 80kg/ha, Hayseed mix, Retu 30kg/ha
23.5.2022 Rolling
26.8.2022 Harvesting, yield 3600 kg/ha
Test activities
In the field, a mixture of two grains (oats and wheat) was tested during the growing season of 2022.
Read more from the fact sheet.
Cultivation measures
Broad bean, Louhi
13-14.05.2021: Double plowing, penetrating goose foot blade
14.05.2021: Sowing: Broad bean, Louhi 300 kg/ha
06.05.2021: Harvest, yield 1257 kg/ha
18.06.2021: Fertilization, cattle manure 15 tons/ha
21.06.2021: Plowing
Cultivation measures
Barley, RGT Planet
5.5.2020 Fertilization, cattle slurry + vinasse 34 tn/ha
5.-6.5.2020 Harrowing, penetrating goosefoot blade
7.5.2020 Seeding, barley, RGT Planet
4.6.2020 Weed harrowing, seeding White Clover 2kg/ha, Red Clover 2kg/ha, sprinkle of Borage
21.9.2020 Harvesting, yield 3299 kg/ha
21.9.2020 Straw collection
4.10.2020 Disc plowing
Cultivation measures
Silage grass 13.6.2019 Harvesting of silage, yield 3400 kg DM/ha 22.7.2019 Harvesting of silage, yield 2000 kg DM/ha 10.9.2019 Harvesting of silage, yield 2480 kg DM/ha 26.9.2019 Plowing
Cultivation measures
Oats Matty
15.5.2018 Top spike tilling
15.5.2018 Spreading of cattle manure 22 tn/ha
16.5.2018 Sowing: Oats Matty 210 kg/ha
15.6.2018 Weed tilling + grass seed (timothy 40%, meadow fescue Retu/Karolina 25%, smooth meadow grass SW Nexus/Live 20%, Italian ryegrass Meroa 5%, red clover Saija/SW Yngve 5%, alsike clover Frida/Aurora 3%, white clover Jögeva4 2%) 25 kg/ha
11.9.2018 Harvest 2250 kg/ha
Cultivation measures
Spring wheat Amaretto
2016 Block plowed in autumn
11/5/2017 Harrowing
12/5/2017 Discing
12/5/2017 Fertilization: Amaretto 270 kg/ha, YaraMila NK2 22-0-12-3 480 kg/ha (105.6-0-57.6-14.4), Catch crop Italian ryegrass 4 kg/ha
16/5/2017 Rolling
19/6/2017 Crop protection spraying: Ariane S 2 l/ha
29/6/2017 Crop protection spraying: Acanto 0.25 l/ha, Moddus M 0.25 l/ha, Proline 250 EC 0.3 l/ha
30/9/2017 Harvest 4238 kg/ha (13.5% moisture)
6/10/2017 Crop protection mixture: Roundup Flex 2017 4 l/ha, Contact adjuvant 0.4 l/ha
29/10/2017 Plowing
The growth of the collector plant remained small.
Cultivation measures
Pictures from the growth season of 2016.
Soil fertility analysis result 27.11.2020:
Sampling line 2020:
Soil fertility analysis result on May 2nd, 2018.
Soil fertility analysis result 2014:
2024 Silage grass
2023 Silage grass
2022 Mixture crop oat + wheat + grass seed
2021 Pea, Louhi
2020 Barley, RGT Planet
2019 Silage grass
2018 Oat, Matty
2017 Spring wheat, Amaretto
2016 Silage grass
2015 Perennial pasture grass, Buffer zone commitment started in 2015
2014 Perennial pasture grass
2013 Perennial pasture grass
2012 Perennial pasture grass
2011 Perennial pasture grass
2010 Barley NFC Tipple and grass seed (red clover Camilla, English ryegrass Riikka, tall fescue Kasper, meadow fescue Retu, timothy Tammisto, meadow foxtail Baron)