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I have drilled wheat into a white clover "cover" which appears to be indestructible, done passes with the Carrier along with Sub-lift + Carrier on a couple of strips combined with three applications of Glyphosate (+ a well known broad-leaf weed herbicide ) but still it grows. The slugs have all but destroyed the emerging wheat despite pellets being applied. The slugs are living on the soil surface just under the clover and have no interest in coming up to eat the pellets. The field has never had a crop of rape on it and came out of a two year ley last Autumn.
We have had great success direct-drilling into rape volunteers but wanted to take the technique up a notch to see if we could grow two wheats using clover as a cover/break between the two wheats, but it looks like being a bit of a failure. Elsewhere on the farm we have not seen a single slug even after spring rape.
Hi Jim,
I drilled into a big stand of pure white clover the first year I did No Till, sprayed off with half rate cmpp a few days after after drilling (before the end of sept. obviously ). I then pelleted at crop emergence. The cmpp slaughtered the clover and there was little slug damage, but that could have been due to me squashing them continually checking the field.