- Location
- Lincolnshire
We didn’t start growing winter crops here until the mid 1980’s when we had a series of very wet springs. Looking back, that’s when we bought the bigger sprayer and from that time the amount of spraying that was required just ramped up and up. Before that time we dragged the stubbles in the autumn to purge them of weeds and ploughed before winter. Drilled everything in the spring. Never had a difficult weed problem. Cranesbill came in with set aside . Sprayed it off with glyphosate but it never quite killed it leaving it to carry on and seed over summer. It flourished in early drilled OSR as well. Very difficult to kill in the beet and more so now desmedipham gone.
If the government doesn’t reverse its stance then we are at a major turning point in UK Ag.
If the government doesn’t reverse its stance then we are at a major turning point in UK Ag.