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<blockquote data-quote="Oscar" data-source="post: 8171451" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>Not looked at this thread until just now , one question , what's this " blackgrass " you mention !!?.</p><p>Growing my last cereal crops this year , 40 yrs , never had blackgrass on the farm .</p><p>Well that's a lie in that a " away" contractor came unexpected to bale straw ( about 8 years ago)and the first two bales( in chamber from an unknown farm) came out so tight that they exploded and he rebaled . I did see unusual plants growing in those two areas and sprayed it off in the following March with round up.</p><p>In reality , I know it's a huge problem and I guess I m very lucky that with a proper rotation going back to the 80 s ,sometimes growing breakcrops which I knew were marginal however would serve a purpose and get me back to first wheat , and only having "clean" machines on farm has avoided BG.</p><p>I contract spray as well , but only saw BG for first time about 12 years ago on customers farms however it's now fairly widespread . Some fields are very bad, ie you see it in every crop and never do second cereals but most are low levels, ie you see plants but not whole areas or fields.</p><p>Anyway , my farm is going 100 % GS4 this autumn ,via HLS , never in my lifetime growing another combinable crop !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oscar, post: 8171451, member: 3887"] Not looked at this thread until just now , one question , what's this " blackgrass " you mention !!?. Growing my last cereal crops this year , 40 yrs , never had blackgrass on the farm . Well that's a lie in that a " away" contractor came unexpected to bale straw ( about 8 years ago)and the first two bales( in chamber from an unknown farm) came out so tight that they exploded and he rebaled . I did see unusual plants growing in those two areas and sprayed it off in the following March with round up. In reality , I know it's a huge problem and I guess I m very lucky that with a proper rotation going back to the 80 s ,sometimes growing breakcrops which I knew were marginal however would serve a purpose and get me back to first wheat , and only having "clean" machines on farm has avoided BG. I contract spray as well , but only saw BG for first time about 12 years ago on customers farms however it's now fairly widespread . Some fields are very bad, ie you see it in every crop and never do second cereals but most are low levels, ie you see plants but not whole areas or fields. Anyway , my farm is going 100 % GS4 this autumn ,via HLS , never in my lifetime growing another combinable crop ! [/QUOTE]
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