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@martian I am pretty sure my word “conquered” was over-dramatized through autocorrect. Meant “controlled.” My desire would be to visit farms where annual grassy weeds are being controlled (where they once were very problematic) through a system’s approach, and ideally it would be great to...

I have an opportunity to apply for a scholarship to study a topic related to no-till. Here is what I’d like to find in the U.K. (I’m from the states) I’d like to visit a couple of farms (if Covid will go away and allow travel) that are successfully conquering grassy weeds (black grass...

Definitely keep us updated! This is pretty exciting stuff.

The answer to your question is: it depends. It depends a lot on rotation. But it makes sense that your cover crop is not allowing N to leach, and the lack of disturbance is not allowing it to volatize. Plus the livestock doing their thing to recycle nutrients.

Monitor N levels in soil and plant tissue during the growing season to make sure the plants are continuing to get what they need. When you harvest the barley you’ll be pulling N off, so you will have to replace it in the future one way or another.

It would seem like the Double Knock ahead of a warm season cereal or broadleaf for that matter might be pretty effective, especially if followed by very low disturbance drill? We usually plant spring wheat mid-April. Letting everything grow til mid or end of May, performing the Australian...

In Australia- has the invasion of annual ryegrass hit in particularly wheat dominated rotation regions? Would it be fair to generalize what those rotations are? If so, what are they? The bias I am trying to get you to confirm is that lack of crop rotation diversity aided the ryegrass invasion...

Not doubting you, but wonder if you have a source you can point to for this fact. Thanks.

According to one of my friends, strip till and rotational tillage is like when someone is asked if they beat their wife, and the answer is “only every other day!” :anybody got a matchbook: Kidding, sort of. And now we’ve strayed somewhat from the OP like good forums do.

Getting spring soils to warm up in a timely manner is a big challenge, and frankly I don’t have a silver bullet answer until the breeders start making winter cereals with black straw (which they can do). Warm season crops with relatively short growing season is one idea, if it is feasible for...

The Palouse Region of Washington & Idaho, US

100% agree with this, and is the focus of my work. I buy wheat from 35 no-till farmers that comprise of select varieties of wheat with premium baking/milling qualities. The varieties have to perform well in the field, but quality is #1. The grain is purchased at a cost of production price, which...

I’m working on resistant ryegrass here in the states as well. I think it would be great if we all could pitch in on this thread as much as possible.

What was Gary Markham’s bottom line point yesterday?

Therapeutic and good for the mind.