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Blackgrass friend or foe!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Steevo" data-source="post: 1689996" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>There is no easy way to solve the problem. Many on here going on about grass leys, spring cropping etc. That's all well and good and depends on the situation you are in, but it also has to pay the bills. Silly amounts of blackgrass (i.e. spray off wheat field in may!) are uneconomic admittedly, but for those of us with moderate blackgrass, swapping to grass/SB isn't always viable.</p><p></p><p>I did wonder if wheat were £200/t consistently whether this would solve the problem. Spring crops with lower yields would make them viable.....but then winter cropping with higher yields would pay more.</p><p></p><p>It's basic market forces. Farmers will control BG (and all other weeds!) with the cheapest method available to them, be that out of a can, or grass/SB. It purely depends on which is the most economic way to do it, and what fits with what you want out of farming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steevo, post: 1689996, member: 430"] There is no easy way to solve the problem. Many on here going on about grass leys, spring cropping etc. That's all well and good and depends on the situation you are in, but it also has to pay the bills. Silly amounts of blackgrass (i.e. spray off wheat field in may!) are uneconomic admittedly, but for those of us with moderate blackgrass, swapping to grass/SB isn't always viable. I did wonder if wheat were £200/t consistently whether this would solve the problem. Spring crops with lower yields would make them viable.....but then winter cropping with higher yields would pay more. It's basic market forces. Farmers will control BG (and all other weeds!) with the cheapest method available to them, be that out of a can, or grass/SB. It purely depends on which is the most economic way to do it, and what fits with what you want out of farming. [/QUOTE]
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