Blackgrass control poll

How's your blackgrass control this season?

  • Better than last year

    Votes: 42 42.0%
  • Same as last year

    Votes: 35 35.0%
  • Worse than last year

    Votes: 20 20.0%
  • Anyone got an AD plant?

    Votes: 3 3.0%

  • Total voters
    100

Hereward

Member
Location
Peterborough
Spraying T1 over the last few days and its obvious the blackgrass control isn't as good as I first thought.

Last year seemed an easy year here, felt like I was in control, this year looks like normal service is resumed.

This weed really is driving every decision on the farm now.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
We are the best we’ve been in years.
A couple of let downs is a few scratched tilled fields drilled beginning of October, the adjacent fields in the same block have much less which we no tilled.
Apart from the odd bad patch on some fields I’m really pleased.
 
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Hereward

Member
Location
Peterborough
We are the best we’ve been in years.
A couple of let downs is a few scratched tilled fields drilled beginning of October, the adjacent fields in the same block have much less which we no tilled.
Apart from the odd bad patch on some fields I’m really pleased.
How much flufenacet are you using?
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
How much flufenacet are you using?
One full dose (is that 540? I can’t remember off the top of my head). We didn’t follow up with the extra this year but probably should have done on those few fields. Not putting anything on spring crops so as not to over use it.
 

Badshot

Member
Location
Kent
You can go above 240g flufenacet by using the generic straights/mixes.
Think it's legal to 480g. Don't quote me though, I'm hazy, not an agronomist and currently have some weird bloody viral infection which has me floored so could be remembering wrongly
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
You can go above 240g flufenacet by using the generic straights/mixes.
Think it's legal to 480g. Don't quote me though, I'm hazy, not an agronomist and currently have some weird bloody viral infection which has me floored so could be remembering wrongly
Yeh I will need to check, where’s last autumns Niab guide!
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
What kind of money would you guys estimate black grass control costs / ha

And just how much does it knock the average yield ? - can’t help but notice the farms that seem to have it worse often seem to be the same ones that claim high average yields ?
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
What kind of money would you guys estimate black grass control costs / ha

And just how much does it knock the average yield ? - can’t help but notice the farms that seem to have it worse often seem to be the same ones that claim high average yields ?
£60-100/ha for winter wheat which sounds a lot and is a lot. However many will be spending that on spring barley also which we don’t bother with as it’s usually too dry and knocks the crop.
 
What kind of money would you guys estimate black grass control costs / ha

And just how much does it knock the average yield ? - can’t help but notice the farms that seem to have it worse often seem to be the same ones that claim high average yields ?

Anything from 70/ha upto 120/ha on bad fields, probably an average of 100/ha here?
A bad infestation will decimate yield to zero then you’ve got years of weeding aswell.
The odd plant scattered about is ok for a year or two but it soon multiplies!
But pretty good control again this time except a few known problem areas that are being flagged whilst doing t1 for either rogueing when I get motivated or knapsack ..!!
Cheers dh
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 77 43.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 35.0%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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