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Lots of barley volunteers around this year, even in fields that havn't had barley in for years.
I was just going to say the same. Barley in wheat and oats this year, that haven’t had a crop of barley for six years .Lots of barley volunteers around this year, even in fields that havn't had barley in for years.
Don't worry your not aloneI fudge up every year on the same point.e.g. This on my worst BG fields only. So ww planted late Oct following beet following spring barley (both basically clean). Full rate liberator day after drilling. Top up of ffct, pdm and dff in November. Walk crop late Feb early March to see if hatra/monolith required. Decide not to bother as only a few big plants that might be too big. (Field probably only had Atlantis 3x ever so expect some activity). Now field is absolutely smothered. Convinced that most is spring germinating and that spring herb would have helped with a residual element. Made this mistake before like a prat!
Best to keep it on the surface IME. Plough to control brome though.
Is the plough the anser .?
Similar here. However I have noticed if you properly zero till you can bring drilling date foward. Any kind of cultivation means much later drilling.In my experience 50% of improved control is got for FREE... just drill later, last week of Oct or if looking ok a week later preferably, it does not get much publicity as it does not sell steel with glossy paint or chemical.
Before the reply comes its impossible on heavy land, I too thought that, but thats how we got to crop failures, better no crop than an expensive failure, but with cultivation tweeks I have done it to the extent its now nearly all rogue-able.