Block 27: Vepsä
The block information contains basic information about the block and events during the growing season, observations, and yield data.
Block 27 Vepsä
Block basic information
Area: 1.76 hectares
Soil type: rich loamy sand (rmHtS)
A rectangular block whose stiff soil restricts the choice of crops. Precise handling of timing. The block has not been plowed since 1995, so crop success is monitored without the use of plowing.
Crop rotation
2026 Silage grass
2025 Silage grass
2024 Silage grass
Research and experiments
No plowing.
Cultivation practices
Silage grass
22.4.2026 Fertilization, cattle slurry + NK boost 2026 20 tn/ha
7.6.2026 Mowing
8.6.2026 Raking
8.6.2026 Harvest, yield 1100 kg DM/ha
17.6.2026 Fertilization, cattle slurry 30 tn/ha
Growth observation
Cultivation measures
Silage grassland
Cultivation measures
Silage grassland
5.6 Harvest, loose 831.40 kg per hectare
23.7 Harvest, loose 1,864.96 kg per hectare
Cultivation measures
Silage grass
16.6.2023 Harvesting of silage into a stack, yield 1437.92 kg DM/ha
12.8.2023 Harvesting of silage into a stack, yield 3724.82 kg DM/ha
Cultivation measures
Barley, RGT Planet
17.5.2022 Fertilization, Cattle slurry, 30tn/ha
17.5.2022 Plowing
19.5.2022 Plowing
19.5.2022 Sowing, Barley, RGT Planet, Grass mixture
4.9.2022 Harvesting, yield 2200 kg/ha
Cultivation measures
Broad beans, Kontu
16.5.2021 Cultivation, penetrating goosefoot blade
16.5.2021 Sowing: Cowpea, Kontu 315 kg/ha
7.8. and 19.8.2021 Harvesting, yield 571 kg/ha
15.11.2021 Disc cultivation
Cultivation measures
Barley Elmeri
5.5.2020 Fertilization, cattle manure + Ecolan Agra 3-3-0 vinasse 25 tn/ha
8.5.2020 Disc harrowing
22.5.2020 Cultivation, penetrating goosefoot blade
25.5.2020 Harrowing, penetrating goosefoot blade
25.5.2020 Seeding, Barley, Elmeri 246 kg/ha
26.5.2020 Rolling
11.9.2020 Harvesting, Yield 2366 kg/ha
3.10.2020 Disc harrowing
Cultivation measures
Silage grass
30.4.2019 Fertilization, cattle slurry 25 tn/ha
4.6.2019 Harvest, yield 2400 kg DM/ha
17.6.2019 Fertilization, cattle slurry 25 tn/ha
20.7.2019 Harvest, yield 1300 kg DM/ha
27.9.2019 Harvest, yield 900 kg DM/ha
Cultivation measures
Grass silage
19.5.2018 Spreading of cattle slurry 18 tn/ha
7.6.2018 Mowing
7.6.2018 Raking
7.6.2018 Harvest 4,960 kg, 1,052 kg DM/ha
9.6.2018 Spreading of cattle slurry 20 tn/ha
31.7.2018 Harvest 918 kg DM/ha
21.9.2018 Harvest 497 kg DM/ha
Cultivation measures
Silage grass
4.5.2017 Replanting red clover SW Yngve 5.3 kg/ha
4.5.2017 Surface fertilization: YaraMila Y1 27-1.3-4 273 kg/ha (72.6-3.5-12 kg/ha)
30.5.2017 Crop protection MCPA 1 l/ha
16.6.2017 Harvest
17.6.2017 Raking
17.6.2017 Forage harvesting 1575 kg DM/ha
21.6.2017 Top dressing: YaraBela Selenium sulphate 27-0-1 200 kg/ha (53.6-0-2 kg/ha)
29.6.2017 Liquid manure separation liquid fraction 30 m³/ha (42-7.5-72 kg/ha)
3.8.2017 Harvest
3.8.2017 Raking
3.8.2017 Forage harvesting 4091 kg DM/ha
Total yield 5666 kg DM/ha
Cultivation measures
Grass silage pasture
Establishing pasture in the spring, clover-rich: Timothy Grinstad, meadow fescue Kasper, Italian ryegrass Turgo, reed canarygrass Karoliina, red clover SW Yngve, white clover SW Hebe.
Soil fertility analysis result on 19.12.2022:
Sampling line 2022
Soil fertility analysis result on May 2nd, 2018.
Soil fertility analysis result 2014:
2026 Silage grass
2025 Silage grass
2024 Silage grass
2023 Silage grass
2022 Barley (cover crop)
2021 Broad beans, Kontu
2020 Barley, Elmeri
2019 Silage grass
2018 Silage grass
2017 Silage grass
2016 Silage grass
2015 Broad beans Fuego for silage
2014 Malting barley Harbinger
2013 Oats Aslak
2012 Barley Fairytable
2011 Spring wheat Anniina
2010 Spring wheat Kruunu