Cutting beans with black bindweed

[Bomber101]

Does anyone else have problems with cutting beans with bindweed growing in them. We sprayed roundup on them two weeks ago and it has had little effect. Bindweed still green and rotary separator on lexion 550 blocks up really quickly. Is a rotary combine any better of any brand. Surely I am not the only person with problems, how do others get on. Since the loss of simazine beans are no longer the cleaning crop they used to be. Bloody irritating.

 

[Fuzzy]

Leave them another 10 days.

 

[Bomber101]

Worried beans will be shed by then!

 

[Fuzzy]

Hundreds of acres around here still to cut , and some farmers have wheat,oats and barley to cut first!!!

 

[Bomber101]

I appreciate that I am fortunate to be cutting beans but would like to get finished now. Wet harvests that drag on are really frustrating and then in the last crop which can go quickly to keep having to unblock the combine walkers is damn annoying. Have organised a rotary combine to cut the fields in question and will try the cleaner fields later.

 

[Barleymow]

cut em twice , once i cut them high then went back over the field at a lower height stopped it wrapping round both times , didn't loose too many

 

[RAF]

Get a contractor in .

 

[Simon Chiles]

Does anyone else have problems with cutting beans with bindweed growing in them. We sprayed roundup on them two weeks ago and it has had little effect. Bindweed still green and rotary separator on lexion 550 blocks up really quickly. Is a rotary combine any better of any brand. Surely I am not the only person with problems, how do others get on. Since the loss of simazine beans are no longer the cleaning crop they used to be. Bloody irritating.

It's easy to be wise after the event but next time you're in this situation I'd use Reglone as a desiccant instead. Someone around here used roundup and then followed it a week later in a particularly weedy crop of linseed and it worked very well if a bit OTT.

 

[DrWazzock]

Round up very slow on senescing bindweed.

Never had a problem with bindweed in our conventional drum. But It usually wrapped on the header auger until it jammed it. This problem was partially cured by wrapping duct tape round and round the auger to cover up any bolts heads or lid edges that impeded flow of the bindweed along the auger. You'd think it wouldn't stick, but it does if you wind it the right way!

It really can be very frustrating. Only thing that helps is dry weather really.

 

[principal skinner]

Reglone

 

[Bomber101]

Thank you all. Glad I am not alone. Ended up getting a rotary to cut some which seems to be going well.

 

[Brisel]

Roundup needs 3 weeks on broad leafed weeds to properly dry them out. Reglone is much quicker.

 

[Bomber101]

Finished tonight. Some went well, five acres a nightmare! Reglone may be the way in the future. Thank you

 

[franklin]

We sprayed roundup on them two weeks ago and it has had little effect.

Two weeks is not enough time for roundup. Ours were done over a month ago and the bindweek and other junk is now crispy.