Chickweed

Lewis

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Livestock Farmer
Been out and about walking, past few days, on the home farm and across other people's silage fields and can't help but notice the abundance of chickweed in everybody's silage fields. Grazing fields very little chickweed present but fields that are predominantly cut its like a takeover.

What does chickweed love to thrive?

Would it be a compaction issue? Or high p and K inputs from constant slurry applications after cutting?
 

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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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