Hay Farmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Really good cover crops here for once, a mixture of vetch, oats, phacelia, radish, rape, volunteer cereals and weeds. In April, I will be direct drilling (disc drill) spring cereals into them. What should I be doing to the CC’s? I’m thinking of flailing them fairly soon then post drilling glyphosate?
Or, could I leave them and drill spring Barley or Oats straight into the cover crop, followed by glyphosate.
It seems a shame to destroy them now and leave the ground semi bare for 3 months, when they are doing so much good.
In the past I’ve always left the CC’s growing to the last minute, sprayed glyphosate then drilled a few days later, but then the CC’s were never very thick.
TIA
Or, could I leave them and drill spring Barley or Oats straight into the cover crop, followed by glyphosate.
It seems a shame to destroy them now and leave the ground semi bare for 3 months, when they are doing so much good.
In the past I’ve always left the CC’s growing to the last minute, sprayed glyphosate then drilled a few days later, but then the CC’s were never very thick.
TIA