yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
This is what they did in the 1950s when grass weeds were a problem and wet autumnsConsidering continuous spring barley on some of the poorer ground here as it seems to withstand drought much better than wheat here. I am also running out of viable break crop options. Trying to keep it low cost so will it work with zero till or very min till or will last years residue still be infectious by the time the next years crop is drilled? Would a robust fungicide programme or dressed seed sort that out or would ploughing be mandatory to avoid a build up of disease? Thanks.
The best crops I have here at the moment are direct drilled spring barley on all soil types. Not quite direct drilled as the land was lightly shuffled over in the autumn with a stubble cultivator but it now looks the best crop by far. Ploughed land isn’t so good due to spring moisture loss and cobbly seedbeds so I want to avoid ploughing if I can.
I have done the maths with stewardship low input option and cover crops
looks quite good depends on yield