wild oats

Well I guess it’s time to start another annual thread about how peoples crops are looking at the start of the year. All pics taken today. Generally I’m pretty happy at present other than one but of rape that looks a bit thin in places thanks mainly to pheasants🙄 Wheats Skyfall Two year...

Ive grazed wheats now for a couple years with positive effects and no yield penalty. But never grazed winter barley. Anything I should think about before a chuck a few hundred in lamb ewes out on barley? Worried about the growth profile differences between wheat and barley.

Consider your spring herbicide programme carefully to avoid carry-over of any residual activity from spring applied SU herbicides, particularly if it remains dry and then turns wet later in season... “This is particularly the case for those growers who are thinking about increasing the areas of...

After 6 years of min till and regen type activity we grew a good crop of blackgrass in the wheat this year. Going to plough later on for spring barley but I thought that I would try to grow as much as possible by making a grass seedbed. Nothing at all grew since harvest of the wheat finished...

Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine New data from Corteva has shown high levels of control of volunteer oats in the autumn with its Broadway Star herbicide. Unwanted oats are typically addressed in the spring, but if left unchecked for months volunteers can impact yield. Trials...

What is the biggest problem you're facing? And what if solved would make everything easier?

Due to a delay in winter oats seed delivery we are going to have to drill much later than normal. We're in the NW in Northern Ireland/high rainfall area and unfortunately the weather broke 10 days ago and brought 100mm of rain with it. The parcel of ground we have earmarked for winter oats...

What options are there for cleaning seed for our own use, we would be looking to clean 20 to 25 ton a year of wheat barley oats and beans. We grow everything for a feed and although we aim to have clean crops sometimes end up with an odd wild oat or a bit of sterile brome in the sample which we...

Is anyone going to follow luximo plus with flufenacet or crystal note not over doing the pendamethalin

What level of percentage control does something like a disc get on chitted stubbles? we’ve got some grass weed fields that have greened up nicely but we won’t drill till mid October onwards so do I glyphosate now and then again pre drilling or do we disc now to kill the growth (does it though...

What will folks be using this autumn for bean herbicide? Ryegrass and wild oats problematic fields

Farmers planning to get back into oilseed rape growing this autumn on the back of sustained high commodity prices should invest in husbandry from the off to ensure maximum return – with pre-emergence weed control strongly advised to ensure crops get away well. That’s the advice from Agrii...

Please everybody in Scotland write to their MSP about the madness of the debate in the Scottish Parliament that eating meat is to be banned by 2040. NFU get your arse into gear and crush this madness!

We have had a 17 year old helping this harvest. I have tried to keep his hours down a bit from the others and give time off more regularly. When it came to do the pay run I was told that under 18 can only work a 40 hour week. Is this right or is it a mix interpretation of the laws/rules? Thank you

Any ideas on a companion for winter beans following spring barley (and wild oats..)? Weed suppression and soil conditioning being main aims. Drill it now and then beans jnto it later. Perhaps linseed, buckwheat, phacelia? Not sure- open to ideas! Thanks

Just drilling for a customer, apart from forage rape and turnips what else can you see? It's got a green label so I guess it's certified? It's not purchased from anyone on here before anyone panics....

Seems to be there are adverts offering lot of cheap straw, it's not as it reads

Am i right in thinking Sterile Brome seed needs a light cultivation/stale seedbed to chit but Great Brome and Soft Brome need to lie on the surface undisturbed ? I have some wheat stubbles that had brome in the crop and i want a good chit before i sow barley. The straw is baled and i was going...

Don't normally do it but this year they're talking nearly £600 for C2 , bugger that What's your plan ?

Lots of barley and osr cut around us over the last 2 weeks and now some wheat as well. Think I must be missing something though as lots of stubbles have been ripped up or ploughed. Diesel is £1.10/litre and wearing metal prices doubled yet lots of people are out there carrying on as normal...