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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 6379710" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Several farmers around here have been drilling their wheat later to counter blackgrass and are finding that the blackgrass has adapted to late drilling and is now just as big a problem as when they drilled earlier.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that blackgrass quickly adapts to any new situation.</p><p></p><p>Drilling even later risks not getting it in at all or the wheat not being able to out-grow the blackgrass, leaving them in an even worse problem than drilling early!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Couldn't agree more. There is East Anglian Clay and there is Warwickshire Clay as well as higher rainfall.</p><p>I've farmed both and I know which one is considerably easier!</p><p>I am sure that there are other really heavy clays around the country too.</p><p></p><p>If your heavy clay is clay that you can usually grow Sugar Beet on reasonably successfully, what you might call heavy clay isn't what we all call heavy clay.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Each of us will find our own ways of dealing with Blackgrass best. What works for one won't necessarily work for others.</p><p>Even then, thinking that you've cracked it and that your system will never need changing again, will probably lead to extreme disappointment.</p><p></p><p>I have a system that works here now and. In fact, this farm now has less of a problem that I have ever known in 23 years of farming it. I even now find myself reluctant to go to so-called blackgrass events, so as not to be tempted to change my system. But I know full well that my system will have to develop as our blackgrass adapts to the system I am using now.</p><p>That doesn't mean that all of the dozen or so parts of my system will change at once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 6379710, member: 44728"] Several farmers around here have been drilling their wheat later to counter blackgrass and are finding that the blackgrass has adapted to late drilling and is now just as big a problem as when they drilled earlier. The problem is that blackgrass quickly adapts to any new situation. Drilling even later risks not getting it in at all or the wheat not being able to out-grow the blackgrass, leaving them in an even worse problem than drilling early! Couldn't agree more. There is East Anglian Clay and there is Warwickshire Clay as well as higher rainfall. I've farmed both and I know which one is considerably easier! I am sure that there are other really heavy clays around the country too. If your heavy clay is clay that you can usually grow Sugar Beet on reasonably successfully, what you might call heavy clay isn't what we all call heavy clay. Each of us will find our own ways of dealing with Blackgrass best. What works for one won't necessarily work for others. Even then, thinking that you've cracked it and that your system will never need changing again, will probably lead to extreme disappointment. I have a system that works here now and. In fact, this farm now has less of a problem that I have ever known in 23 years of farming it. I even now find myself reluctant to go to so-called blackgrass events, so as not to be tempted to change my system. But I know full well that my system will have to develop as our blackgrass adapts to the system I am using now. That doesn't mean that all of the dozen or so parts of my system will change at once. [/QUOTE]
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