Cover crop drilled after vineing peas first few days of July,mixture of spring Oats,Phacelia,Sunflower,Linseed and Buckwheat.Oats are setting seed,Buckwheat and Phacelia flowering,Sunflowers and Linseed will flower in about a week.There is also some Groundsel and Fathen which is flowering,do I leave until just before drilling wheat in 3 weeks time to maximise OM or terminate now to stop further seed setting?
When do I terminate this?
- Thread starter chester
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire UK
Pedders
Member
- Location
- West Sussex
take out cereals and grasses with fulsilade drill through the rest ...terminate them with first broad leaved weed spray once wheat emerged
we are well on top of our spraying, watch forecast carefully and if things look catchy then I go earlier
not been caught out yet !
it does a lot better job post drilling as shading can be dramatic in a thick cover crop
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
I also think that when you drill through a cover,the cover becomes stressed, a squirt of roundup at this stage seems to nail it more effectively.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Got a fair amount of volunteer potatoes in our summer catch crop, was going to roundup the day before drilling but in view of the spuds maybe it's better to roundup today and then drill in 10 days time once the chem has got to the tubers?
There is an article in the current Farmers Weekly about volunteer spud control. It basically said keep the glyphosate rates up & in an ideal world leave the canopy to mature so it soaks up the herbicide. I'd spray it now so it has time to translocate into the tubers.
As an aside, I found that big doses of Starane knocked out ground keepers within a cereal crop. Cheaper than Shield too.