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Field 7: Uusikylä

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Field 7
Uusikylä

Basic field information

Area: 7.47 hectares
Soil type: rich clay loam (rmHeS), rich fine-sandy moraine (rmHtMr)

A field directly bordering a field road, which is very irregular on one side. The field has water management problems at both ends. Part of the field is a protected zone, commitment started in 2015.

Crop rotation


2026 Silage grass
2025 Mixed crop (cereals)
2024 Winter wheat, Ceylon

Research and experiments


2023 Pea cover crop trial (Uvidi), seeding density trial
2022 Clover trial (Uvidi), seeding density trial

Cultivation practices

Silage grass (7,01ha)
22.4.2026 Supplementary sowing grass mix with clover 13 kg/ha
25.4.2026 Fertilization, cattle slurry 18 tn/ha
5.6.2026 Cleaning cut
23.7.2026 Mowing
24.7.2026 Raking
24.7.2026 Harvest, yield 3000 kg DM/ha

Growth observation

uusikylä29_5
29.5.2026 The grass hasn’t grown much, amongst there is creeping thistle and field milk thistle.
uusikylä 2.6.2026
2.6.2026 Height of the grass is about 30 cm, there is also creeping thistle on the field.
uusikylä 18.6.2026
18.6.2026 Grass has started new growth after mowing.
uusikylä 23.6.2026
23.6.2026 The crop is a bit thin.
uusikylä 29.6.2026
29.6.2026 There is a lot of clover in the crop, also creeping thistle. Height is 40-50 cm.
uusikylä 9.7.2026
9.7.2026 Aerial view of the field.
uusikylä 13.7.2026
13.7.2026 Height of the crop is 70 cm, red clover especially has grown a lot.
uusikylä 4.8.2026
4.8.2026 A little bit of new growth on grass, mostly clover.
uusikylä 11.8.2026
11.8.2026 The grass has started new growth, though it isn’t growing evenly trough out the field.
uusikylä 17.8.2026
17.8.2026 Height of the grass is 30 cm, also the creeping thistle has started new growth.
uusikylä 25.8.2026
25.8.2026 Grass growth has been quite slow.
uusikylä 1.9.2026
1.9.2026 Clover is growing well, height of the grass is 50 cm at it’s best.


Cultivation practices

mixed crop (cereals)
4.6.2025 Sowing, barley RGT planet 100 kg/ha, oat Nestor 100 kg/ha, pea 30 kg/ha, grass mixture with clover 30 kg/ha
8.8.2025 Harvest, yield 1710 kg/ha

7.7.2025


21.7.2025

Cultivation measures


A: Winter wheat Ceylon
12.9.2023 Fertilization, yara bio (10-4-1) 226 kg/ha
7.5.2024 Fertilization: cattle manure 32.5 tons/ha
8.8.2024 Harvest, feed grain 3,370 kg/ha
9.8.2024 Cultivation

B:
11.5.2024 Plowing
20.5.2024 Disc harrowing
20.5.2024 Sowing Naturcom pölyttäjämaisemaseos 10 kg/ha
20.5.2024 Sowing, grass mix 30 kg/ha

Uusikylä
18.6.2024
Uusikylä
4.7.2024
Uusikylä
4.7.2024 view of the field.
Uusikylä
30.7.2024 aerial view

Cultivation measures


Pea + cover crop
25.4.2023 Harrowing
26.4.2023 Sowing: pea Astronaut, 80 pcs/m2, sowing density test strips 110 and 125 pcs/m2
26.4.2023 Sowing: English ryegrass 10 kg/ha on 1.5 ha area
26.4.2023 Rolling
14.-16.8.2023 Harvesting by test plot
110 pcs/m2: 171.5 kg from test plot, equivalent to 3430 kg/ha
126 pcs/m2: 190.5 kg from test plot, equivalent to 3810 kg/ha
80 pcs/m2: 195 kg from test plot, equivalent to 3900 kg/ha
Yield on the entire field 2380 kg/ha
17.8.2023 Cultivation, goosefoot harrows
9.9.2023 Plowing
11.9.2023 Harrowing with a flexible tine harrow
12.9. Sowing: Ceylon 275 kg/ha

In the plot, the effect of different seeding densities on weed incidence and yield will be studied. The highest yield was obtained with the lowest seeding rate.
The forming of pods has started! Photo taken on 3 July.
Weeds were equally abundant in different areas of the plot, so the seeding density had no effect. Scentless may weed, field milk thistle and creeping thistle grew tall and took over as the pea dried out and sunk lower.

Cultivation measures


Grass silage
9.5.2022 Weed harrowing
12.6.2022 Mowing
13.6.2022 Harvesting of silage, yield 2200 kg DM/ha
30.7.2022 Harvesting of silage, yield 1000 kg DM/ha
22.9.2022 Harvesting of silage, yield 300 kg DM/ha

15.6.

Cultivation measures

Grass silage
20.4.2021 Harrowing for grass patching, supplementary sowing mixture 10 kg/ha
30.4.2021 Rolling
10.6.2021 Grass silage harvesting, yield 3300 kg DM/ha
23.7.2021 Grass silage harvesting, yield 1600 kg DM/ha
18.9.2021 Grass silage harvesting, yield 900 kg DM/ha

Field plot scanning: Uusikylä

8.6.2021 Field photo
21.7.2021 Clover

Cultivation measures

Barley – RGT Planet (protective grain)

27.4.2020 Levelling harrowing
28.4.2020 Fertilization, Soilfood Boost NK Vinassi 3 tn/ha
29.-30.4.2020 Harrowing, penetrating goosefoot blade
30.4.2020 Sowing, Barley, RGT-Planet, 280 kg/ha
17.8.2020 Harvesting, Yield 4000 kg/ha
20.8.2020 Straw collection

12.5.2020 Barley has started to grow
26.5.2020 Warm weather has been good for vegetation
22.6.2020 Growing at a good pace, although suffering a little from drought
3.8.2020. Good and fairly even growth.
Harvest map 2020

Cultivation measures

Broad bean, Kontu
28.4.2019 Levelling harrowing
30.4.2019 Harrowing, cross-cutting goose foot blade (2 times)
30.4.2019 Sowing, pollination strip (3 m) Pollination-Diana mixture (crimson clover, oilseed radish, tansy-leaf phacelia, common vetch)
1.5.2019 Sowing, broad bean Kontu 260 kg/ha
1.5.2019 Sowing annual Italian ryegrass 10 kg/ha
22.7.2019 Observations: an average of 25 beans/plant, 75 plants/m2, estimated yield 6300 kg/ha (some fall before harvesting). The pollination strip is growing tansy-leaf phacelia, Persian clover, and crimson clover. Vetch and oilseed radish have disappeared.
27.8.2019 Harvest, yield 2700 kg/ha
19.9.2019 Plowing

Buffer zone
Along the Riuskanoja river, there is a buffer zone. The area has been used as a pasture for a long time. In the past, pigs grazed the area, and later on, horses.

Cultivation measures

Winter wheat
9.5.2018 Weed harrowing
23.5.2018 Fertilization, 10 tons/ha of cattle manure
20.5.2018 Weed harrowing, cover crop sowing, 2 kg/ha of annual white clover and 2 kg/ha of Italian ryegrass.
8.8.2018 Harvest, 3940 kg/ha
10.8.2018 Raking of straw
10.8.2018 Baling of straw, 12 bales
23.10.2018 Plowing

17.5.2018 The aerial photo shows the sowing errors. The spring on the seed drill’s ground wheel had been bent, causing the ground wheel to not rotate. During the winter, when bales were retrieved from the edge of the field, the crop was trampled. In the autumn, there were problems sowing the block.
17.5.2018 In some places, the growth is even.
24.5.2018 The average length of sprouts is 23-27 cm.
1.6.2018 The uncertainty is starting to level off.
1.6.2018The growth of the stem has begun.
8.6.2018There is quite a lot of shade variation in the vegetation
8.6.2018 Wheat is mostly at the flag leaf stage, with some heads emerging here and there. The growth is 30-35 cm high.
12.6.2018 The aerial photo shows the autumn sowing problems, as well as the compacted field.
20.6.2018On the eastern edge of the block, there is a Scentless mayweed.
20.6.2018 The growth is very shallow, about 20-30 cm.
28.6.2018 Scentless mayweed can be seen.
28.6.2018 The crop is about 50 cm tall.

28.6.2018 The crop is about 50 cm tall.

Cultivation measures

Pea, Rocket and oat
The field has been plowed in autumn
10.5.2017 Flexible tine harrowing
12.5.2017 Application of liquid manure 10m³/ha (27-5.8-30)
15.5.2017 Fertilization during sowing. Pea Rocket, 300 kg/ha and oat as a support crop 30 kg/ha. Fertilization with Yarabela Suomensalpietar 67 kg/ha (18-0-0.6-2.6 kg/ha)
16.6.2017 Herbicide spraying with Basagran SG 1 kg/ha
24.8.2017 Mowing
25.8.2017 Raking
25.8.2017 Baling of whole crop silage 102 bales of 800 kg each, dry matter content 34.8% = 278.4 kg DM/bale = 3781 kg DM/ha of whole crop silage.
The field has been treated with MCPA, which limits the use of the crop as feed for dairy cattle. The bales can be fed to beef cattle or heifers.
28.8.2017 Weed control with Envision 4 l/ha + binder
4-5.9.2017 Disc harrowing
6.9.2017 Fertilization during sowing: Winter wheat Ceylon 255 kg/ha and fertilization with YaraBela Suomensalpietar 112 kg/ha (18-0-0.6-2.6 kg/ha)

23.5.2017 The pea has not yet come to the surface, the roots already reach a depth of 10 cm. Pea 23.5. The coleoptile do not yet reach the surface, the average sowing depth was 5 cm.
30.5.2017 Peas have been steadily sprouting, and oats sown as a stover crop have also sprouted. There has been some over sowing and, in addition, seedling establishment has been more efficient due to the tractor tyre. The average number of leaves on the pea was 4. The density of pea seedlings was 99 plants/m², while the average density of oat was 27 plants/m². Seedling rates are close to the target.
30.5.2017 Peas have sprouted on 30.5. The roots reach up to 20 cm below the ground in some places

6.6.2017 The pea root system has continued to strengthen, with the pea now having 3 pairs of leaflets. Oats are at 13 on the Zadoks scale.
6.6.2017 The pea has strengthened its root system, and has grown 3 new leaves. The rootstock of the plant is at the 3-leaf stage, Zadoks 13.
6.6.2017 The vegetation is not yet very green from the air, even if it looks that way from the ground. The green in the area of the red circle was revealed to be white goosefoot.
6.6.2017 There was plenty of white goosefoot on the site – this photo is from inside the red circle.
12.6.2017 The pea crop is also closing the rows. However, there are weeds on the parcel.
12.6.2017 Feeding traces of the pea moth in the pea
12.6.2017 Pea growth has been rapid. The crop shows signs of damage from the pea moth.
12.6.2017 The plot is quite rich in weeds, mainly white goosefoot.
22.6.2017 The previous week’s weed spraying has worked well, the crop is catching up, and there is little room for new weeds.
22.6.2017The development stage of peas.
22.6.2017 Pea has started nitrogen fixation. Bacterial nodules can be found.
26.6.2017 Orthoimage
26.6.2017 Planthealth, the picture shows areas in darker green where the staple crop oats grows better
29.6.2017 Vegetation
29.6.2017 Vegetation
29.6.2017 Vegetation
7.7.2017 Vegetation
7.7.2017 Vegetation
7.7.2017 Vegetation
14.7.2017 Vegetation
14.7.2017 Vegetation
14.7.2017 Vegetation
21.7.2017 Vegetation
21.7.2017 The height of the pea crop is almost 120cm. The 36 centimetre spraying furrows have almost completely closed. The first flowers have already formed pods on the plant.
21.7.2017 Vegetation
26.7.2017 The stalk of the pea is very slender, and the height of the plant is almost 120. Let’s hope there will be no lodging.
26.7.2017
26.7.2017
9.8.2017 Most of the block has lodged. The upper oat-rich area, as well as the driveways, are better preserved.
9.8.2017
9.8.2017 eaten by a pea moth.
16.10.2017 Wheat growth rate is 12-14, with a slightly uneven growth habit.
21.8.2017 The lodged pea is already almost completely browned.
The peas can still be split with the claw.
4.9.2017 Traces of sludge wagons are still clearly visible.
28.8.2017 Peas were harvested as whole grain silage for baling on 25.8.
Concentrations of whole grain silage pea and oat crops according to the Valio Artturi service.
16.10.2017 The soil has been compacted where bales have been driven into the ground.
9.10.2017 Wheat has a growth rate of 12-13 (Zadoks).
9.10.2017 Apart from pea, there are hardly any other weeds to be found on the plot. Peas compete for light and space in the autumn, but die during the winter.
9.10.2017 The angle of view matters; from above the wheat spikes do not yet cover the ground.
2.10.2017 Stand growth rate 11-13 (Zadoks). Straw depressions are weaker.
2.10.2017 Traces of feeding in sprouts.
25.9.2017 Wheat is sprouted, with a growth rate of 11-12 (Zadoks). There is a slight unevenness in the crop, with spring silt traces showing as weaker growth.
User comments25.9.2017 The peas that fell to the ground when harvesting whole grain silage have also germinated.
11.9.2017 After sowing, there has been enough rain, too much of it.
11.9.2017 The disc harrow did not remove the depressions caused by the sludge tanker in the spring. Water was standing in the plot, both in the disc mulch layer (0-5 cm) and above the ploughing furrow (25 cm), below the furrow and between the areas was drier.
11.9.2017 While digging, water “burst” above the plough bed.

Cultivation measures

Spring rapeseed, Proximo

Soil NIR-analysis 13.11.2025

Soil fertility analysis result 27.3.2024:

uusikylä 27.3.2024

Soil fertility analysis result 27.11.2020:

Soil NIR-analysis (27.11.2020)

Sampling line 2020:

Soil fertility analysis result on May 2nd, 2018.

Soil fertility analysis result 2014:

2026 Silage grass
2025 Mixed crop (cereal)
2024 Winter Wheat Ceylon
2023 Pea Astronaut + cover crop
2022 Silage grass
2021 Silage grass
2020 Barley RGT Planet
2019 Faba bean, Kontu and buffer zone
2018 Winter wheat, Ceylon
2017 Pea, Rocket
2016 Spring rapeseed, Proximo
2015 Pea Rocket
2014 Spring wheat Wellamo
2013 Sugar beet Diana and oats Aslak
2012 Sugar beet Diana and barley Tiril
2011 Perennial pasture grass
2010 Perennial pasture grass