hillman
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- Location
- Wicklow Ireland
Showing ignorance here can you not spray them out ?
DD on livestock farm
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Showing ignorance here can you not spray them out ?
Weeds are same family as the swedes,spray kills swedes.
Should have power harrowed,sown and pre emergenced it.
GM swedes would be a revolution,roundup ready.
hillman
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- Location
- Wicklow Ireland
Weeds are same family as the swedes,spray kills swedes.
Should have power harrowed,sown and pre emergenced it.
GM swedes would be a revolution,roundup ready.
If said apparatus you had issues with would it have done a job on them ?
I reckoned that could be the case just wasn't sure
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
We have HT swedes... believe me, they aren't all they're cracked up to be!Weeds are same family as the swedes,spray kills swedes.
Should have power harrowed,sown and pre emergenced it.
GM swedes would be a revolution,roundup ready.
Can't quite remember exactly what is in them but many many farmers have lots cows from grazing them.
And they don't taste like a doon - more like a turnip.
But great for weed-problem areas
I think they were originally bred using a bok choi that wasn't killed, quite an interesting story behind them
I took a chance that direct drilling would not disturb too many weed seeds however the weeds came with a vengeance.
It had a real good dose of roundup pre drilling which blitzed everything however post drilling is what has grown.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Weeds are same family as the swedes,spray kills swedes.
Should have power harrowed,sown and pre emergenced it.
GM swedes would be a revolution,roundup ready.
I had a field a couple of years ago that got swamped, although not quite as bad as that.
It had glyphosate on a stale seedbed (post a clean crop of beet), cultivated, drilled then Butisan on as pre-emergence. I think the issue was a late flush of weeds germinating after the pre-emergence ran out of steam. The same would likely have happened this year, in fact it has, now the field is back in beet.Several times over with herbicide, just to knock the weeds back enough to let the beet overpower it, once it finally rained.
Are there any swedes worth saving in the bottom of that forest? When it happened to mine, the swedes that survived where about the size of cricket balls, at best. In hindsight, I should have sprayed it off with glyphosate in August and DD'ed some stubble turnips straight in.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Your post gives me the shivers, we had an identical experience a few years backI had a field a couple of years ago that got swamped, although not quite as bad as that.
Several times over with herbicide, just to knock the weeds back enough to let the beet overpower it, once it finally rained.
Are there any swedes worth saving in the bottom of that forest? When it happened to mine, the swedes that survived where about the size of cricket balls, at best. In hindsight, I should have sprayed it off with glyphosate in August and DD'ed some stubble turnips straight in.
the only difference was the choice of pre-em ... but the turnips grew like stink, of course. Ploughed the lot in and broadcast the seed straight on top. We think the rain flushed out the pre-em - hindsight eh..One of those times you wonder "where did they all come from"
as it had been pretty clean in the previous years 90hp farming
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I had sow thistles and fat hen come in my rape turnip mix drilled in may as well. Not quite to the same extent thankfully. Tipped the lambs in 3 weeks ago - the first thing they did was eat the sow thistle stems. Then they stripped the fat hen! I was going to top it but obviously too late for the thistle. Letting the lambs do it now. Planning to run them over once lightly then go back for a second time.
My thistles will have blown in from ELS ground but the fat hen can only have been sat in the ground for 30 odd years.
Perhaps everyone should put some thistles in their TMR?
I had sow thistles and fat hen come in my rape turnip mix drilled in may as well. Not quite to the same extent thankfully. Tipped the lambs in 3 weeks ago - the first thing they did was eat the sow thistle stems. Then they stripped the fat hen! I was going to top it but obviously too late for the thistle. Letting the lambs do it now. Planning to run them over once lightly then go back for a second time.
My thistles will have blown in from ELS ground but the fat hen can only have been sat in the ground for 30 odd years.
Perhaps everyone should put some thistles in their TMR?
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Recently drilled grass on a dairy farm
TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
Maybe teff with swedes help blank out weeds?
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- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Frisia stubble turnips put in with the Duncan 1st week of July
How are the swedes?
SilliamWhale
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There ok. Swedes established fine but we stirred up loads and loads of oilseed rape from 3 years back because I sumo gls'd it. I'm not convinced taking a year out of the rotation to grow them is worth it though
cubby
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- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
JD-Kid
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- Location
- Akaroa.. New Zealand
hows yer neck after driveing around backwards all day
Not too bad,fields only 5 acre.
Took a pic the other day,they just need to bulk up now they have light.
Getting there after a traumatic time with the weeds.
As they were 5 weeks ago.
the old Moore might be quite good for the job, if the grass is short and soil soft it should plant it ok unless the discs are worn out. If you havnt many stones then you have other options. Are you far north so looking at s.barley ?
Bit happened since the post you quoted, we got an old moore and did a fair bit with it lots of photos etc in the thread.
Irish NZ
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- The mighty Waikato NZ
Swedes going in on some of our more rolling country. The drill is low disturbance in a straight line not so much creeping across banks.