wild oats

  1. Matt77

    No till second wheat

    I gave up second wheats a good few years ago due to grassweed control, lack of!, thought I'd give it another go as the farm is cleaner and now running a disc direct drill, flooding aside, it looks terrible, what have people learnt with DD second wheat, as I'm now hearing advice along the lines...
  2. Kevtherev

    1983

    Big farm weekly 1983
  3. benny6910

    Cleaning brome seeds out of barley

    Looks like spring my spring barley area is growing but I didn’t get chance to keep any clean barley for seed. I have some that has brome seed in it and when I got my beans cleaned i showed the sample to the cleaner and he said he’d struggle to get the brome out. What other options have I got to...
  4. D

    Do you calculate your farm carbon footprint?

    Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?
  5. Laggard

    Rotting seeds

    Why does wheat seed rot but blackgrass doesn’t?
  6. E

    Should we be worried about pesticides on food?

    Should we worry both as consumers and producers? Glyphosate on oats is the obvious one.Recently highlighted by tim Spector on one of his zoe podcasts. Do we know if glyphosate is toxic in any way. Is it messing with our microbiome? Also as a strawberry grower I am well aware of the very short...
  7. Trial Officer Barney

    Ryegrass/Brome/Wild Oat

    Hi! Looking for high-pressure sites of Ryegrass, Brome, or Wild Oat for herbicide trial purposes. Locations: the Midlands and/or the South regions (Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire) If interested, please send a PM. :)
  8. Stephensonlouis

    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April? Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
  9. yellow belly

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints
  10. 4

    sfi you can now apply

    5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try . First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
  11. Jsmith2211

    RGT Southwark

    Hello all, I'd like to buy some Southwark seed, but nowhere seems to be able to sell me any. I may be able to clean a little myself but I'm not sure how successful that will be as it may have some wild oats in it. It's either that or mascani, but southwark should be higher yield of both grain...
  12. Spencer

    Oats

    Grown some Isabel spring oats for the first time this season and have some grains with “awns” like a wild oat, anyone seen this before? Grown various other varieties over the years and never seen them before..
  13. M

    Wheat pre em

    Morning Presumably most are still planning on planting wheat in the next month or so. With current prices and profitability what’s everyone’s thoughts on pre em choices and rates ? cheers
  14. bobk

    SFI the verdict .....

    Seen the latest proposals and I think it's better to be in than out , also learnt today mid tier will be incorporated in to SFI So what are you doing , think I'll have a pop .
  15. Laggard

    Winter Beans

    Never grown them before, recovering OSR grower. Which is a good winter variety and what seed rate if ploughing or Claydon drilled please? Any other advice welcome.
  16. CPM RSS

    Grassweeds: Switching the narrative

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The hot topic this season has undoubtedly been grassweeds and the challenge they’ve become. CPM collates some of the latest expertise to help reinforce the message that best practice will eventually prevail. By Janine Adamson and Rob...
  17. CPM RSS

    Research Briefing: Waxing advantage

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Research aiming to explain the impact Avadex has on weeds from follow-up herbicide treatments has found how it links to its mode of action. CPM learns more about the science. By Mike Abram Any grower who’s used Avadex (tri-allate) over...
  18. W

    Luximo and drilling dates

    Did luximo work for you? If so when did you drill?
  19. Grass And Grain

    NUM3 - Legume Fallow, now rotational

    Latest SFI update has now given option for NUM3 Legume Fallow to be rotational. See screenshot of the guidance. Non-rotated we have to establish within 13 months of agreement start date, so say we start agreement 1st Sept 2023, then we'd need to establish by 31st Aug '24, then leave it there...
  20. JCB_JCR

    Self drilling seeds

    Came across this on youtube thought I'd share.
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