- Location
- Lincolnshire
You guys who haven’t drilled any wheat yet must be on light land? Or is the blackgrass that bad you’re prepared to risk yield loss from later sowing in return for a big hit on this awful weed?
On very heavy land here, blackgrass used to be horrific some years, but last week Oct/1st week Nov is winning the war very quickly, no real yield loss from blackgrass last year with yields very little reduced from what used to be normal of a 1st week Oct drilling a few years ago.
What is sometimes forgotten is the reduced growing costs of slightly later drilling, .. no aphicides, no PGR and 2 fung is plenty.
The real skill comes from making weatherproof cultivation's to allow later drilling.