SilliamWhale
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When I grew some as a trial it rotted by November. Never sure why
DD on livestock farm
- Thread starter scholland
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When I grew some as a trial it rotted by November. Never sure why
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
Field was sprayed with glyphosate and all went brown but some grass has regrown. Not all over just patches. Got contractor to spray so should have been right.
Will grass harm crop too much. I am going to ring agronomist this week about boron. Is there still an option to take it out.
Had some flea beetle and I sprayed it once. Maybe should have put some slug pellets on as odd patches seem affected. Pleased with them overall. Still learning.
Looks like your swedes have had a good start and should out compete the grass which is coming back.
I‘ve got about half of the field where the swedes were maybe pressured by slugs and were a bit thin so that’s why I put the falcon on to give them a better chance.
Chatting with our old DD contractor and he said one agronomist reckoned the Falcon was too variable in killing the grass so didn’t really recommend it however it’s always done a good job when we’ve used it.
Id say definitely take your agronomists advice on boron and don’t panic about driving through the crop,it soon fills the wheelmarks.
Make sure your sprayer is clean and has no residue likely to affect the swedes or worst case scenario kill them.
I‘ve got about half of the field where the swedes were maybe pressured by slugs and were a bit thin so that’s why I put the falcon on to give them a better chance.
Chatting with our old DD contractor and he said one agronomist reckoned the Falcon was too variable in killing the grass so didn’t really recommend it however it’s always done a good job when we’ve used it.
Id say definitely take your agronomists advice on boron and don’t panic about driving through the crop,it soon fills the wheelmarks.
Make sure your sprayer is clean and has no residue likely to affect the swedes or worst case scenario kill them.
- Location
- Easter ross
got a beet bucket here Dave that came from Alf on here, best £700 spent. Gives plenty options and when the pressures on in spring to get SB sown just go in and lift the last bit of swedes or FB and introduce it at grass.Can soon lift a trailer load and clear a field.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
i wouldn’t worry about the grass tbh, as your swedes look so thick the canopy will stifle the grass now, but it will keep it cleaner when grazing.
Lots of trace element sprays containing boron are available, most of them relatively cheap. I like to apply my Boron in a spray with a bit of foliar nitrogen and potash in it too. Always seems to pep it up a bit.
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
- Location
- Easter ross
Whats the harvester like? Like a neep lifter?
Or is it just a neep with a neep docker?
it’s just a riddle bucket for front of the forklift. Drive along, scoop them out, give it a shake out, load and repeat. FB harvesting wasn’t cheap getting the pros in. Perfect for scattering on to pasture early spring and even comes in handy on the pit scattering grass
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Oh right i see. Our clay would never do that.it’s just a riddle bucket for front of the forklift. Drive along, scoop them out, give it a shake out, load and repeat. FB harvesting wasn’t cheap getting the pros in. Perfect for scattering on to pasture early spring and even comes in handy on the pit scattering grass
- Location
- Easter ross
it’s quite late in spring so don’t think itd matter unless it’s really wet. If it was dry it’d be easier as it offers to dig in easier on the sand.
ISCO
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- Location
- North East
Boron spray went on our Swedes today. Contractor had been spraying fodder beet all morning so should be well washed out.
Rounduped some grass for fodder rape as well.
Rounduped some grass for fodder rape as well.
ollie989898
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Falcon (like all the fops/dims) will work right if it's done right. None of this cut rate lark on grasses like that; they aren't a few barley volunteers. You may struggle with larger grass weeds mind.
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Looks great! looking forward to the photos of the sheep on it!
Will come round soon enough!
Sheep won't get to it until January but plan to gave some weaned steers on it in late October.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
150kg of N this time, still less than the kiwi advise but a fair increase on other years.Looking good.
How much N is that now?
We have a lot of plants this year so I think they'll use it.
This was swedes drilled 10 June.
No fert spread just a good dollop of muck.
Sprayed 2 weeks ago with Falcon,Boron and a multi mineral foliage feed.
Photos from today.
No fert spread just a good dollop of muck.
Sprayed 2 weeks ago with Falcon,Boron and a multi mineral foliage feed.
Photos from today.
Wow! Cracking looking crop there...
OK,time to fess up....
Top half of the field has come well but patches where there are springs lower are a bit thin and especially a small banks area of about half an acre which failed.
Couple of weeks ago I span on some slug pellets as they seemed to be getting the upper hand and whilst I’d got the spinner on the quad I span 3kg ish of forage rape on the thin and failed bits.
Just span on and not touched and they seem to be coming well.