thistles

I’m wanting to buy a sprayer unit like the one in the pic I’ve posted below to go in the back of the Land Rover that runs off a battery to go around spraying the thistles as it’s too time consuming with a knapsack sprayer….can anyone recommend one please….no more than 100 litres

I have some which are well over knee high, and thick with grasses. Others are shorter but thick with flowering crimson clover. What are people doing about management in these scenarios? There's plenty of flowering blackgrass in some, docks in others etc. Grazing or taking a cut would...

I've recently been visiting several local farms volunteering my labour for free on evenings and weekends and so far, every response has been a no. Am I missing something? I would have thought farmers would be happy to have an extra pair of hands to help out when needed, especially for free...

Is there less thistles? Has all that wet weather rotted them?🤔

We’ve had a batwing topper here for 20 years and it’s completely knackered. It’s been a good tool but I’ve never really liked the swath it leaves in thick material or the pickup behind the tractor wheels. Thistles are also a bit hit and miss without lots of other material going in the front...

Found it while whacking thistles this morning in the grazing fields

I want to tidy up my silage fields , docks thistles ,, what do you recommend chem wise , docks will be the worst ..

How close can I spot spray next to a watercourse, I have got thistles and nettles under electric wire running alongside the river, I would jfdi but it's next to a footpath...

What are the advantages of burning a lot of diesel, quite slowly, running a topper, over just using a disc mower? Mower wouldnt mulch the cuttings but time would do that. Mower is faster, quite possibly more robust, leaves a tidier cut on grass which doesn’t stunt growth as much as the blunt...

Every year at this time of year my grass plants have a purple tinge to them. It's all quite new grass and all levels are pretty good except for potash which I am working to rectify. Could that be the reason or some other stress. Once we go into the warmer times and the grass takes off it turns...

Not really a precision farming thread but mulling over options while spot spraying thistles with a quad mounted sprayer. Generally creating spirals around the field and repeatedly spraying some plants in error! Option two is to put the sprayer on a tractor with second person and walk along...

I re seeded a field last year and there's a lot of thistles growing on it, what's the best spray or way to get rid of them? It's a 10 acre field so might spot spray with knapsack

A wet autumn followed by a very wet spring means weeds are thriving and giving grassland farmers yet another problem to grapple with. Many pastures were left unsprayed in the autumn as the wet weather set in, allowing grassland weeds to become more established than ever. Ryan Came-Johnson...

I have some ground going into vegetables and also into sunflowers. The thistles are putting on good growth and everything else was taken out by a Feb Glyphosate application. I really want to do the thistles properly, roots and all, but not leave potentially crop-damaging chemical residue. What's...

What chemical options are people using to control black grass in forage maize? Last year I used PDM pre-em and a nicosulfuron post em but poor results. Would dual gold or wing -P alongside PDM be a more robust pre-em option for black grass ? I know they are not cheap!! thanks

With a supreme bout of optimism, I walked a couple of my grass fields today as I thought, foolishly as it turned out, that maybe I could travel with the baby compact tractor and the even smaller single rotor disc spreader. 100kg at a time. It really would be great to spin a bit of fert on to get...

Sent by my SiL down in deppest Herts. Read and boggle.... But got to be in the right location I suspect! ;)

I have been considering organic conversion for various reasons. I see there isn't a grant under sfi but there was in countryside stewardship. I'm starting My 3rd year of a mid tier agreement. Can I apply to add organic conversion to my existing agreement? And will countryside stewardship be...

Anyone know the current price for a 3 ltr. pack ?

Starting a new thread because the other one has got too long to find any information within it. So this AHL2 option in SFI looks ok initially but not so sure when you dig deeper. The aim is copied below and in the ‘how to do it’ section it says ‘It’s up to you how you complete this action, as...