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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 8152075" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>It is a strange year, BG wise.</p><p></p><p>Years ago, following 'the fashion(!)', I went from Ploughing to Min-till and wrecked the farm because of mixing the BG seed throughout the soil profile. BG became particularly bad in wet autumn and winter years.</p><p></p><p>I reverted back to proper/good ploughing and got it back under control.</p><p>I then became interested in DD. (well, if you can't beat the likes of [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] , [USER=362]@Badshot[/USER], [USER=1232]@SilliamWhale[/USER] etc, you might as well join them!)</p><p></p><p>Various DD advisors strongly suggested that we should use a tine drill to start with, before moving onto a disc type drill.</p><p>I didn't like this idea, because I was convinced that it you don't disturb BG, it doesn't want to easily grow. So I became convinced that a Weaving GD was the best way forward from the start. I bought a nearly new one, skipping any tine type drill, which IMO would move far too much soil and encourage BG to grow.</p><p></p><p>The trick is not to jump the whole farm into it at once, starting on fields that are in the right condition to be able to DD successfully. Ploughing some one more time to ensure another good BG control year.</p><p>But from this year onwards, this whole farm will be DD'd.</p><p></p><p>OSR still scares me to death re CSFB, so I have switched to Winter Linseed. I pre-em it with Avadex, followed by Centurion Max in November and this is my cleanest crop with regards to BG crop this year!</p><p></p><p>With the Wheat especially (as with all my other crops), the trick seems to be to drill it just deep enough in good conditions, without disturbing any soil between the rows, so that the BG stays asleep. The BG that has grown this year, is in or very close to the seed row.</p><p> </p><p>My third crop is (usually) Hybrid Winter Barley, which is deliberately in this slot, because 2nd wheats is where we usually get most BG. The Barley out-yields what a 2nd wheat would be and naturally suppresses BG.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The annoying thing this year is that the BG has germinated and grown since Christmas. Why?</p><p></p><p></p><p>My worst BG is actually on the part of the farm that I ploughed last Autumn, before selling my Combi (the plough is still for sale). Here the BG is between the rows and has exploded, Thank God it is coming Winter Linseed next year and I'll have a chance to rectify the problem.</p><p>My only explanation as to why its BG is so bad this year is that ploughing and combi drilling woke up all the BG that was there. More so than I had experienced in the past, ploughing it!</p><p>Maybe the wheat seed wasn't vigorous enough to give the BG enough compettion and maybe the seedbed should have been better. Also, very unusually for us, this is a 2nd wheat, which has again proved to me that I mustn't attempt 2nd wheats again!</p><p></p><p>All cereals got half rate Crystal, half rate DFF together with a full rate Avadex liquid pre-em. The ploughed land got it's 2nd half Crystal and DFF 10 days later. Most of the DD'd stuff didn't get that 2nd dose as it looked so clean and remained so until the new year. So subsequently, much of that Wheat had a Spring dose of an Atlantis type product. That stopped working years ago here and I was hoping it might work again after years of not using it. It still doesn't work!!</p><p></p><p>Nothing is available post-em for the W Barley, but its BG suppression effect is working quite well as usual.</p><p></p><p>My cleanest bit of wheat I have this year is following 5 years of GS4, which was the filthiest BG bit of land on this farm! The wheat was DD'd into the Roundup'd off GSF last September.</p><p>Its only herbicide so far has been half rate Crystal and half rate DFF pre-em!</p><p>It's as clean as a whistle!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 8152075, member: 44728"] It is a strange year, BG wise. Years ago, following 'the fashion(!)', I went from Ploughing to Min-till and wrecked the farm because of mixing the BG seed throughout the soil profile. BG became particularly bad in wet autumn and winter years. I reverted back to proper/good ploughing and got it back under control. I then became interested in DD. (well, if you can't beat the likes of [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] , [USER=362]@Badshot[/USER], [USER=1232]@SilliamWhale[/USER] etc, you might as well join them!) Various DD advisors strongly suggested that we should use a tine drill to start with, before moving onto a disc type drill. I didn't like this idea, because I was convinced that it you don't disturb BG, it doesn't want to easily grow. So I became convinced that a Weaving GD was the best way forward from the start. I bought a nearly new one, skipping any tine type drill, which IMO would move far too much soil and encourage BG to grow. The trick is not to jump the whole farm into it at once, starting on fields that are in the right condition to be able to DD successfully. Ploughing some one more time to ensure another good BG control year. But from this year onwards, this whole farm will be DD'd. OSR still scares me to death re CSFB, so I have switched to Winter Linseed. I pre-em it with Avadex, followed by Centurion Max in November and this is my cleanest crop with regards to BG crop this year! With the Wheat especially (as with all my other crops), the trick seems to be to drill it just deep enough in good conditions, without disturbing any soil between the rows, so that the BG stays asleep. The BG that has grown this year, is in or very close to the seed row. My third crop is (usually) Hybrid Winter Barley, which is deliberately in this slot, because 2nd wheats is where we usually get most BG. The Barley out-yields what a 2nd wheat would be and naturally suppresses BG. The annoying thing this year is that the BG has germinated and grown since Christmas. Why? My worst BG is actually on the part of the farm that I ploughed last Autumn, before selling my Combi (the plough is still for sale). Here the BG is between the rows and has exploded, Thank God it is coming Winter Linseed next year and I'll have a chance to rectify the problem. My only explanation as to why its BG is so bad this year is that ploughing and combi drilling woke up all the BG that was there. More so than I had experienced in the past, ploughing it! Maybe the wheat seed wasn't vigorous enough to give the BG enough compettion and maybe the seedbed should have been better. Also, very unusually for us, this is a 2nd wheat, which has again proved to me that I mustn't attempt 2nd wheats again! All cereals got half rate Crystal, half rate DFF together with a full rate Avadex liquid pre-em. The ploughed land got it's 2nd half Crystal and DFF 10 days later. Most of the DD'd stuff didn't get that 2nd dose as it looked so clean and remained so until the new year. So subsequently, much of that Wheat had a Spring dose of an Atlantis type product. That stopped working years ago here and I was hoping it might work again after years of not using it. It still doesn't work!! Nothing is available post-em for the W Barley, but its BG suppression effect is working quite well as usual. My cleanest bit of wheat I have this year is following 5 years of GS4, which was the filthiest BG bit of land on this farm! The wheat was DD'd into the Roundup'd off GSF last September. Its only herbicide so far has been half rate Crystal and half rate DFF pre-em! It's as clean as a whistle! [/QUOTE]
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