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- Lincolnshire
I'm pretty sure the system for bg control here will be based on some kind of weed wiper system.What’s your thoughts on the PGR? Sounds interesting.
We have routinely applied 0.1 moddus and a litre of CCC at T0 and T1. But the bg "gets going" earlier than the wheat, and the wheat is poor at competing compared to oats or barley. The fields that are certainly shorter have mych more of the annoying, single tiller stuff in them.
It's just more of the idea that everything we do to wheat just favours the bg. I'm moving more towards gentle touch pgr based on making the plant stiffer rather than necessarily shorter. And any shortening is more remedial with cerone etc.
Next year's trials are all going to be on plant manipulation. But I reckon we would have almost a three week window for weed wiping bg here, and a system almost like a gantry would do a tidy job.
I mean, I'd love to put a little starter fert in with a late sown wheat......
The interow hoe sounds interesting but I'm really, really not sold on wider rows that I'd need to go with it. It all seems so counter intuitive to put the same number of seeds into half the number of rows. I suppose the holy grail would be small, solar powered robots that could be released into the field and detect and remove bg seedlings in early spring.