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A different blackgrass approach
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<blockquote data-quote="bovrill" data-source="post: 2428958" data-attributes="member: 12758"><p>I'm trying to come up with a mechanical system which will work.</p><p>So far my back of an envelope scribbles involve a wide spaced drill, but the seed dropped in rows and covered by following pigtail cultivator tines between the rows, leaving something like a mini potato baulk. This keeps the wheat growing in a dryer bit of soil, and the black grass can germinate in the wet furrow bottoms.</p><p>An 8m drill would only need 26ish tines, and would be wide enough to run an 8m inter row harrow and tine cultivator through every few weeks behind a very small and light tractor to chit and destroy blackgrass, and not do too much crop damage. </p><p></p><p>I plan to knock something sort of half scale up to try this autumn. Pick the wettest ten acres I've got, have a 4m set up behind a Ford 4000 and see what happens!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bovrill, post: 2428958, member: 12758"] I'm trying to come up with a mechanical system which will work. So far my back of an envelope scribbles involve a wide spaced drill, but the seed dropped in rows and covered by following pigtail cultivator tines between the rows, leaving something like a mini potato baulk. This keeps the wheat growing in a dryer bit of soil, and the black grass can germinate in the wet furrow bottoms. An 8m drill would only need 26ish tines, and would be wide enough to run an 8m inter row harrow and tine cultivator through every few weeks behind a very small and light tractor to chit and destroy blackgrass, and not do too much crop damage. I plan to knock something sort of half scale up to try this autumn. Pick the wettest ten acres I've got, have a 4m set up behind a Ford 4000 and see what happens! [/QUOTE]
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