ryegrass

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine A new tool is being developed to help growers to fine-tune herbicide timings this spring. The development comes from Bayer and originated in Denmark as the Cossack Tool, created to support a product containing mesosulfuron and iodosulfuron. Weed...

Excuse my ignorance but there seems to be a big variation in power used to drive triple mowers. What makes the difference and what mowers are power hungry and what aren't. We'd have 250hp available, pretty heavy crops 2 cuts per year for sucklers. Wouldn't be under much pressure, be buying...

Below you can find the key results found from the 2nd year of the HWSC project. Data was analysed by weed scientist Will Smith at NIAB after receiving weed samples from BOFIN member Seed Scouts. Let us know your thoughts...is this what you expected?

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Barenbrug UK has added to its agricultural team with the appointment of Donna Mearns as regional sales manager for Scotland. Mearns brings 26 years of experience in the agricultural supply industry with her to the role as well as a more detailed...

Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine The liquid version of tri-allate has gained a spring wheat label recommendation to assist growers with grassweed control. Available as Avadex Factor, the liquid formulation now aligns with the granular form – Avadex Excel 15G – which has full label...

Does anyone have experience of using a stripper front to harvest ryegrass. I have a 24ft stripper front on a 1680 Axialflow . We usually windrow our ryegrass and then harvest it with a pickup but I would like to try a small area with the stripper . What setting do I need to make and at what seed...

https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2024/01/04/environmental-land-management-in-2024-details-of-actions-and-payments/ This has just landed, on a quick skim it looks like they have listened.

Quick query for those who have experience with it. I would like to whole crop an area of spring barley that has a resistant ryegrass issue, however i would need to wrap the bales. I know a few people who have previously done this and had massive problems with rats, any tips to store wrapped...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Grass weeds are a problem on almost all tillage farms in Ireland. Wild oats, bromes and annual meadow grass are the most common. However, other weeds such as canary grass, Italian ryegrass and blackgrass are growing in terms of significance. Even...

This is gonna be controversial so hold onto your knickers I'm after opinions.. Given arlas announcement today of up 2.58ppl shall I order some robots and buy some more pedigrees? what do we think realistically is going to happen to the milk price between April and September? Reason I ask is...

We plant cover crops in autumn for grazing store lambs on normally stubble turnips/forage rape. This year we planted grass seeds. Grass was planted mid August came extremely well currently have lambs on if we where to plough up end of February for spring barley (so roughly 6 months) would it be...

We know this country has taken a hit in winter production but what about European countries? Can our friends and contributors from Europe enlighten us? Will it affect markets as we go forward? Also vegetables and fruit, how have they faired? WB

Hi, got some tup lambs that I want to keep growing on over winter, grass is getting short now so wanting to know what everyone feeds their tup lambs over winter without stuffing them. thanks

Well isn’t it? If you can grow 4t per acre of wheat then isn’t the carbon footprint per ton less by virtue of the fact you’ve spread the fixed part of the carbon cost in growing the crop over more tons. This fact begs the question of what to do with marginal land. It would suggest it should be...

This is a slightly bizarre and definitely pointless thread but putting hay out yesterday for our dry cows and thinking what a fantastic feed it is; no plastic, no effluent, easy as pie to handle and transport, rumen friendly, cows love it. Got me wondering; does anyone know of anyone still...

Hello there I’m thinking of upgrading an welger rp12 which we have had since 1986 ! It has served us well and apart from the odd fart 💨 been pretty faultless and simple. Ideally I’m after something reliable, not loaded with science fiction and easy to repair efficient . I was thinking of a...

A potential anaerobic digester just up the road from me had its Planning Committee meeting yesterday. They had already approached me to grow crops for them & take digestate back. I would prefer a break crop if possible. The farm has a significant blackgrass burden. Mostly brashy soils prone to...

Uswd in Australia to destroy ryegrass seed through the combine Tom Brook says it's reduced volunteers by 96% https://www.seedterminator.com.au/?gclid=CjwKCAiAg9urBhB_EiwAgw88mc0-ehziTPukj4GLVvBF9jwPeBdNBlkxN2bLcy9DKrLSBi0YzJx0RhoCQ10QAvD_BwE

Has anyone done this and what was the best way to establish herbs into an existing ley