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Blackgrass after two year Spring break
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<blockquote data-quote="B'o'B" data-source="post: 1758732" data-attributes="member: 491"><p>Have the trade really forced farmers into ww/wosr short rotations?</p><p>Looking at a spreadsheet of Gross Margin most years winter wheat and winter rape would occupy the top slots on a combinables farm, is that not the reason a lot of farmers went to that system? It is also a relatively simple system to run with minimal labour and machinery. The trouble is the chemical costs of keeping that show on the road have risen to the point where in many situations the Gross Margin of other cropping now look competitive again, combine that with land getting rape sick and there is now a financial incentive to change. I have heard a lot more farmers moaning about the three crop rule than I have heard agronomists. Your picture shows that black grass problems aren't solely reserved for farms with 100% winter cropping and service agronomy.</p><p></p><p>I think the problem with black grass advice is the trade do trials and one year the weather favours one control method/system, so the trade and press promote that system the next year. But then the weather favours another system of control and so that system gets more press the following year, so on and so on....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="B'o'B, post: 1758732, member: 491"] Have the trade really forced farmers into ww/wosr short rotations? Looking at a spreadsheet of Gross Margin most years winter wheat and winter rape would occupy the top slots on a combinables farm, is that not the reason a lot of farmers went to that system? It is also a relatively simple system to run with minimal labour and machinery. The trouble is the chemical costs of keeping that show on the road have risen to the point where in many situations the Gross Margin of other cropping now look competitive again, combine that with land getting rape sick and there is now a financial incentive to change. I have heard a lot more farmers moaning about the three crop rule than I have heard agronomists. Your picture shows that black grass problems aren't solely reserved for farms with 100% winter cropping and service agronomy. I think the problem with black grass advice is the trade do trials and one year the weather favours one control method/system, so the trade and press promote that system the next year. But then the weather favours another system of control and so that system gets more press the following year, so on and so on.... [/QUOTE]
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