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A different blackgrass approach
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<blockquote data-quote="franklin" data-source="post: 2428698" data-attributes="member: 1118"><p>While control in wheat is perhaps variable, control in the Kerb-able crops is actually worse. You have a false sense of security in OSR but its there, in numbers, in the canopy. Similarly winter barley you will have less chemical control than wheat, yet a smaller yield loss. Winter oats you have close to sod all chemical control, but again, very small yield loss. </p><p></p><p>Spring linseed will show stacks of BG and your field may look a bit ropey, but again yield loss will be very small.</p><p></p><p>But a year like this and a 50%+ spring cropping option on heavy land will show some real problems. </p><p></p><p>Round these parts, as an example, forage rye is becoming an option. Does it work? Well, I have heading BG in wheat right now, and they wont be silaging any rye until close to Lincs show I wouldnt imagine. </p><p></p><p>I am favouring more mechanical control, so leaning towards crops that can have the BG removed by a hoe or roundup in crop. I think with some work on the drawing board, you could remove BG in linseed with a weed wiper quite well. Similarly I dont see any reason why you shouldnt get 100% control of BG in wheat mechanically. </p><p></p><p>But in the short-term, if you cant live with it, then best to grass it down. I have a field which was ploughed for the first time since 2006, and has gone from grass ley to wheat. It has a crop trial in it for BG control and the results are looking very interesting. But the grass certainly hasnt cleared the problem and nor has the ploughing. But it should be clean enough to rogue. </p><p></p><p>I was not farming in the days before Atlantis - were crops BG free then?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="franklin, post: 2428698, member: 1118"] While control in wheat is perhaps variable, control in the Kerb-able crops is actually worse. You have a false sense of security in OSR but its there, in numbers, in the canopy. Similarly winter barley you will have less chemical control than wheat, yet a smaller yield loss. Winter oats you have close to sod all chemical control, but again, very small yield loss. Spring linseed will show stacks of BG and your field may look a bit ropey, but again yield loss will be very small. But a year like this and a 50%+ spring cropping option on heavy land will show some real problems. Round these parts, as an example, forage rye is becoming an option. Does it work? Well, I have heading BG in wheat right now, and they wont be silaging any rye until close to Lincs show I wouldnt imagine. I am favouring more mechanical control, so leaning towards crops that can have the BG removed by a hoe or roundup in crop. I think with some work on the drawing board, you could remove BG in linseed with a weed wiper quite well. Similarly I dont see any reason why you shouldnt get 100% control of BG in wheat mechanically. But in the short-term, if you cant live with it, then best to grass it down. I have a field which was ploughed for the first time since 2006, and has gone from grass ley to wheat. It has a crop trial in it for BG control and the results are looking very interesting. But the grass certainly hasnt cleared the problem and nor has the ploughing. But it should be clean enough to rogue. I was not farming in the days before Atlantis - were crops BG free then? [/QUOTE]
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