Maize 2022

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
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M6 Hard shoulder
Sown 1st May, pre em which was a waste of time, post em and foliar phosphate, foliar N applied later next week to maximise leaf contact, approx 5000 gall slurry/acre and 1 pass with 3 in 1 cultivator and a light power harrowing.
 

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Nothing wrong with any of those, crops around here are all moving and all well past the knee high stage so ahead of schedule.

Pre-em in maize is never a waste of time. The exact same product is often used in arable crops and they can keep a crop weed free all season. It's not very soluble and tends to linger for a long time. The biggest benefit is a cleaner crop between the emergence and 6 true leaf stage and the subsequent delay in any post emergence applications. This will help keep the crop weed free beneath the canopy which is a big bonus if you intend to min-till wheat in immediately after harvest.
 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
Desperate for rain here.
Maize (Cito) & beans drilled after first cut grass silage 17th May. Plenty of bindweed.
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Comparison with part with no beans but with post-em spray.

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Prospect Maize drilled into "sprayed off" lucerne 14th April, desperate for rain
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crashbox

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Livestock Farmer
Desperate for rain here.
Maize (Cito) & beans drilled after first cut grass silage 17th May. Plenty of bindweed.
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Comparison with part with no beans but with post-em spray.

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Prospect Maize drilled into "sprayed off" lucerne 14th April, desperate for rainView attachment 1045878.
Wow I'd never heard of maize being drilled into Lucerne?
Is that an organic job? Any extra N applied (e.g. digestive)?
 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
Wow I'd never heard of maize being drilled into Lucerne?
Is that an organic job? Any extra N applied (e.g. digestive)?
Not organic. We had tried to kill the lucerne but as there is so much root compared to the leaf area to take up glyphosate, it was only a partial kill and it came back after strip tilling the maize. We put digestate on, and some AN soon after drilling, and have recently put some Efficient N 28 on. We use the Maize Growers Association Nitrogen Predictor which allows us to apply the right amount of N, often surprisingly little but getting a good crop.
 
What mixing rate do people use when using elumis spraying maize?

This will depend entirely upon what other products are in the tank, what weeds you have and how big they are. If you have a lot of weed and they are in the true leaf stage don't go cutting rates as elumis is only nicosulfuron and mesotrione neither of which knock weeds down that rapidly.
Water volume in maize should be sensible to ensure you get the spray in around the crop nicely.
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
This will depend entirely upon what other products are in the tank, what weeds you have and how big they are. If you have a lot of weed and they are in the true leaf stage don't go cutting rates as elumis is only nicosulfuron and mesotrione neither of which knock weeds down that rapidly.
Water volume in maize should be sensible to ensure you get the spray in around the crop nicely.
Cheers, was asking for a friend of a friend whos gamecrop has been overtaken by weeds. I pulled up the pdf but wondered if people altered the advice much.
 

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