Recent content by They see me rolling

Nooooo don't do it! EAMUs aren't tested on crop safety, treat EAMUs where there are groups of crops approved with caution e.g. Fox has linseed,evening primrose, Honesty, Mustard, OSR, canary flower etc approved on it.

Eagle and Shield have been done in the past, yes both on-label approval. There a range of graminicides available the usual fop and dims. Do you mean Fox? The active bifenox is not safe on linseed, do not use.

Premium Crops are funding a project with the John Innes to determine the life cycle of the FFB. They seem to overwinter in woody areas and survive on a range of other plants, but as you say they really like Linseed. Emergence is definitely temperature driven, not day length. Once the air...

Pre-em list: EAMUs -Avadex Factor/ Excel -Callisto/Basillico we have had approved for a number of year. Check MAPP numbers as the product has been re-registered. -New one coming through Katamaran which will be first year of use on-farm.

In our experience you can roll a crop of Linseed post-emergence using the boot test. If the soil is sticky you will pull the Linseed plants up from the soil. The same will happen if you roll across the hill rather than up and down the slope. Linseed can be rolled once the crop is 4-5cm tall, but...

What are you main weeds?

That is a legislative problem, not an industry problem, and therefore would need DEFRA to lobby for change in parliament. You should be asking your local MP why they want diversity and sustainability of the country side and yet pesticide rules for EAMUs are prohibitively strict. The old...

Agreed, April seems to be drier and drier. Personally, I think if there is moisture in the seed-bed mid-march onwards then go for it. However do use a good pre-em herbicide to take the pressure of weed control as there are reduced post-emergence options. With flax flea beetle its important...

August same as OSR normally is.

Can HEAR (high erucic acid) rape be grazed by sheep safely too? Anyone have any experience please?

As mentioned Eagle legal cut-off is before flower buds visible. From a crop safety point of view herbicides are safe, once crop is 5cm tall, either side of green-bud to flowering, i.e. before green-bud or end of flowering. It is not legal though! On the legal side of things if you have bad...

That is a good question. It could be because OSR is worth spending the money on for EAMUs, compared to Linseed the area is much greater and therefore might be worth spending the money generating seed residues, MRLs etc. It could also be it is a historic EAMU, the rules tightened with Annex 2...

I would do whichever weed is bigger, if the BLW are in 2 weeks going to be too big for the herbicide than I would prioritize that and vice versa. Bifenox will nuke the linseed, someone applied it in winter linseed and it toasted everything as well as the linseed. The poppies recovered faster...

Is it too late for an insecticide? Is it being shredded or just gone? Apologies if stupid question..

I would have said you were struggling to control it personally because it is drilled too early. I think early-mid September would be easier to control, but obviously that is just my opinion and it is your farm at the end of the day.