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Stake GunhildSTAKE GUNHILD

Annual crops & yields

The crop catalogue

Everything grown here sits under the activity code this holding has filed in the Norwegian register: 01.190, growing of other non-perennial crops, with 02.200 logging as the secondary. Forage, green fodder and roundwood — described in words, not in figures.

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Grass forageNACE 01.190

First-cut timothy silage

Phleum pratense · Førsteslått timoteisurfôr

The backbone of a Norwegian ration: timothy cut at heading gives a long-fibre, palatable roughage that ruminants sort well. Cut date decides everything — earlier means leafier and more digestible, later means bulk.

Sown in May, Jun. Harvested in Jun, Jul.

Harvest
Mid-June to early July, cut on heading
Supplied as
Round bales, wrapped
Crop details
Grass forageNACE 01.190

Second-cut leafy silage

Phleum pratense × Festuca pratensis · Andreslått

Softer and leafier than first cut, with less stem. Buyers who need a more concentrated forage for young stock or high-yielding animals usually want this one, and it is the cut most often short.

Sown in no month — it is a standing crop. Harvested in Aug, Sep.

Harvest
August, weather permitting
Supplied as
Round bales, wrapped
Crop details
Grass forageNACE 01.190

Meadow fescue and timothy ley

Festuca pratensis, Phleum pratense · Engsvingel- og timoteieng

Meadow fescue fills the sward where timothy thins after cutting, so the mix holds up over more seasons and regrows faster after the first cut. A steadier, denser bale than pure timothy.

Sown in May, Jun, Jul. Harvested in Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.

Harvest
Two cuts, mid-June and August
Supplied as
Round bales, wrapped
Crop details
Legume forageNACE 01.190

Red clover and grass mix

Trifolium pratense · Raudkløver i blanding

Clover fixes its own nitrogen out of the air, so the ley needs less bought fertiliser and the forage comes back richer in protein than pure grass. It is the single most useful thing that can be done to a Norwegian ley.

Sown in May, Jun. Harvested in Jun, Jul, Aug.

Harvest
First and second cut
Supplied as
Round bales, wrapped
Crop details
Annual whole-crop forageNACE 01.190

Green-fodder oats, whole crop

Avena sativa · Grønnfôrhavre

Oats taken green as a whole crop, stem and head together, rather than threshed for grain. Fast to establish, useful in a reseeding year when a new ley will not yield, and a bulky, well-accepted roughage.

Sown in May, Jun. Harvested in Jul, Aug.

Harvest
July to mid-August, cut before the grain fills
Supplied as
Round bales, wrapped
Crop details
Annual brassica forageNACE 01.190

Fodder rape catch crop

Brassica napus var. napus · Fôrraps

A brassica sown into stubble after an early harvest, giving green feed late in autumn when the grass has stopped. It also keeps a root in the ground and living cover on the soil through the wet weeks.

Sown in Jun, Jul. Harvested in Sep, Oct.

Harvest
September to October, grazed or cut
Supplied as
Standing crop for grazing, or cut and baled
Crop details
Dry forageNACE 01.190

Barn-dried hay

Phleum pratense and mixed ley species · Høy, tørka innandørs

Dried rather than fermented, so it stores without wrapping and travels without the plastic. Buyers who want hay usually want it for a specific reason — horses, small stock, or a shed with no bale handling.

Sown in no month — it is a standing crop. Harvested in Jun, Jul, Aug.

Harvest
Cut in the first-cut window, dried under cover
Supplied as
Small and large square bales
Crop details
ForestryNACE 02.200

Roundwood from own forest

Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris, Betula spp. · Rundvirke frå eigen skog

Registered as the secondary activity, NACE 02.200 (Avvirkning / logging). Felling is done on frozen ground in winter, which is when a Hallingdal forest can be worked without tearing the soil apart.

Sown in no month — it is a standing crop. Harvested in Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec.

Harvest
Winter felling, on frozen or bearing ground
Supplied as
Sawlogs and pulpwood, roadside
Crop details

Scope of the catalogue

What is deliberately not on this list

An activity code is a statement about what a business does. Advertising a crop under a code the register does not show is exactly the kind of mismatch an identity check exists to find — so these are named rather than quietly implied.

Not traded here

  • Milling or feed grain as a commodity. Growing cereals for grain is NACE 01.11, a different code from the one filed. Oats are grown here — but cut green as a whole-crop forage and baled, never threshed and sold as grain.
  • Certified seed multiplication. That is NACE 01.64 and carries its own certification regime. Not filed, not done, not advertised.
  • Industrial hemp or any controlled plant. Not grown, under any code, in any quantity. “Industrial annual plants” is a phrase that reads one way to an agronomist and another way to an advertising reviewer, and it is not used here.
  • Anything sold for human or animal health. Forage is feed. Forage is animal feed. Stake Gunhild makes no human or animal health claim of any kind, sells no medicinal, therapeutic or herbal preparation, and grows no cannabis, hemp or other controlled plant.

Why there are no numbers on these cards

Feed value varies by field, cut, weather and storage. Any figure that matters commercially comes from a laboratory analysis of the actual batch, quoted with its method and date — never from a table on a website.

A protein percentage or an energy value printed on a website describes a batch that no longer exists, from a season that is over, off a field the buyer is not buying from. It is the single most common unverifiable claim in agricultural marketing.

What a buyer can have instead: a laboratory analysis of the actual lot, with the method and the date on it, supplied with the load where it has been taken. Ask for it in the enquiry and it will be said plainly whether one exists for that batch.

Ask what is in store

Activity codes for STAKE GUNHILD as filed: primary 01.190 Dyrking av ettårige vekster ellers; secondary 02.200 Avvirkning. Verifiable in the Brønnøysund register record.