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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7560312" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>That is certainly one possibility. </p><p>However I fecked this farm up with BG by Min-tilling it, then returned to ploughing it properly for 6 years always using Hybrid Barley as the 2nd white straw crop.</p><p>Got BG control back under control enough to now start moving towards Zero-tilling.</p><p>So far, so good here. But I’ll repeat that is here and won’t in any way guarantee it will work everywhere.</p><p></p><p>If you can bury BG seed deep enough so that it is at least 2” below anywhere it can find daylight, 70% of it will die in the first year, then 70% of the 30% that is left the following year, and again the year after etc until after 7 years its has virtually all gone.</p><p></p><p>However, if you can plough it at different depths each year and in the same directions for 2 years on the trot, this also helps because a plough never fully inverts the soil, only turning it over by about 120 degrees. So it is vital that you get the skimmers set to at least 1” wider than the landslides and forward speed just right to throw the surface soil into the bottom of the furrow. I have found the ideal furrow width is a minimum of 16” here.</p><p></p><p>What you will end up with is relatively BG free fields, except for the headland bit a few metres into the field at each end where you can’t help but double plough, where the ins and outs are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7560312, member: 44728"] That is certainly one possibility. However I fecked this farm up with BG by Min-tilling it, then returned to ploughing it properly for 6 years always using Hybrid Barley as the 2nd white straw crop. Got BG control back under control enough to now start moving towards Zero-tilling. So far, so good here. But I’ll repeat that is here and won’t in any way guarantee it will work everywhere. If you can bury BG seed deep enough so that it is at least 2” below anywhere it can find daylight, 70% of it will die in the first year, then 70% of the 30% that is left the following year, and again the year after etc until after 7 years its has virtually all gone. However, if you can plough it at different depths each year and in the same directions for 2 years on the trot, this also helps because a plough never fully inverts the soil, only turning it over by about 120 degrees. So it is vital that you get the skimmers set to at least 1” wider than the landslides and forward speed just right to throw the surface soil into the bottom of the furrow. I have found the ideal furrow width is a minimum of 16” here. What you will end up with is relatively BG free fields, except for the headland bit a few metres into the field at each end where you can’t help but double plough, where the ins and outs are. [/QUOTE]
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