Burn off + pre em

Case290

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Mixed Farmer
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Worcestershire
Drilled most in to cover crops / or big Spring oat volunteers. Is there any guide to burn down timing. Guess it’s best to leave it minimum couple days to spring back up ?
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i spray after drilling
prefer a rain to wash off the leaves and have sprayed the day before wheat showing in the row

if you drill then rain next day the surface seeds of blackgrass will be killable with glyphosate before wheat emerges from 35 mm depth if the seed is treated you have another day

1 leaf blackgrass needs a very low dose of glyphosate to kill it
the 6 tillered or more is the hardest to kill as the 7th and 8 th tiller can get missed as it is not green but not atached to the mother plant
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
I've got this lot to drill through, I'm still undecided weather to glypho before or after drilling, I think it's just a case of watching the weather and then deciding.View attachment 912909View attachment 912910
I’ve been drilling into some fairly big covers and been doing it after with the pre em. Worried if I did it before then the weather changed we could end up with a sloppy mess
 

cquick

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BASE UK Member
Did it last year into wheat after OSR, was about knee high. Drilled first week of Oct and spraying conditions were all over the place, some fields were sprayed off before and some after drilling. Couldn't tell the difference.
This cover is the largest I have, was drilled in June into failed linseed. Will be applying a stiff rate of slug pellets soon, too.
 
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Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
As late as you dare ! for us that's sometimes a week (longer for winter beans) but right now with catchy weather and rapid emergence it would be ASAP after drilling
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
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Did this the other day, the wheat was mms from emerging. Managed to sneak in another 15ha yesterday so will spray that asap I think
 

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