Dessicating barley

[Handy Andy]

Is anybody else having to do it this year?
My 45 acres has quite a lot of chickweed in the bottom. Seems to be getting more each year. Its not really dense but I haven't walked every inch of each field, so I don't know what awaits me.
If I could cut it in the next few days then I'd probably get away with it, but it was drilled quite late 20th April, so it'll be end of the month or later if I leave it and I'm afraid that if we get a wet spell, the chickweed will bolt and cause problems. It's about 10 inches high in places so already above cutterbar height. I'm loathe to spray it but think it might be prudent to do so.

 

[steveR]

Oh for Reglone.......

 

[dave6470]

Oh for Reglone.......

Yep missing it big time for killing potato tops what we have now in its plase are useless

 

[steveR]

Yep missing it big time for killing potato tops what we have now in its plase are useless

Had a quick look on Wiki. "...it was introduced commercially for potato haulm desiccation in 1961", then banned in EU in 2018. A long period of usage. Not actually sure why is was banned??

 

[Brisel]

Had a quick look on Wiki. "...it was introduced commercially for potato haulm desiccation in 1961", then banned in EU in 2018. A long period of usage. Not actually sure why is was banned??

It's pretty toxic. It failed the reapproval process on a few issues.

 

[Brisel]

Is anybody else having to do it this year?
My 45 acres has quite a lot of chickweed in the bottom. Seems to be getting more each year. Its not really dense but I haven't walked every inch of each field, so I don't know what awaits me.
If I could cut it in the next few days then I'd probably get away with it, but it was drilled quite late 20th April, so it'll be end of the month or later if I leave it and I'm afraid that if we get a wet spell, the chickweed will bolt and cause problems. It's about 10 inches high in places so already above cutterbar height. I'm loathe to spray it but think it might be prudent to do so.

Malting barley? Make sure it is below 30% moisture if you do spray it or you risk the germination. The peduncle (base of the ear) needs to be yellow and you can barely leave a nail mark on the grain.

Otherwise, crack on!

 

[bobk]

Is anybody else having to do it this year?
My 45 acres has quite a lot of chickweed in the bottom. Seems to be getting more each year. Its not really dense but I haven't walked every inch of each field, so I don't know what awaits me.
If I could cut it in the next few days then I'd probably get away with it, but it was drilled quite late 20th April, so it'll be end of the month or later if I leave it and I'm afraid that if we get a wet spell, the chickweed will bolt and cause problems. It's about 10 inches high in places so already above cutterbar height. I'm loathe to spray it but think it might be prudent to do so.

Just burn it off ,

 

[Wombat]

Our late stuff will get it, had some to cut mid sept a few years ago and it was bloody awful not rounduped off think it was 22% and full of crap

 

[bobk]

Our late stuff will get it, had some to cut mid sept a few years ago and it was bloody awful not rounduped off think it was 22% and full of crap

Mine was sown May 12 , tbf it's clean , but still getting it

 

[Zippy768]

Did our only piece yesterday. Already a messy load of crap.

 

[steveR]

It's pretty toxic. It failed the reapproval process on a few issues.

Not awful environmentally according to Google....

 

[bobk]

Not awful environmentally according to Google....

What ? farming ....

 

[Hindsight]

Is anybody else having to do it this year?
My 45 acres has quite a lot of chickweed in the bottom. Seems to be getting more each year. Its not really dense but I haven't walked every inch of each field, so I don't know what awaits me.
If I could cut it in the next few days then I'd probably get away with it, but it was drilled quite late 20th April, so it'll be end of the month or later if I leave it and I'm afraid that if we get a wet spell, the chickweed will bolt and cause problems. It's about 10 inches high in places so already above cutterbar height. I'm loathe to spray it but think it might be prudent to do so.

Get some Glyphosate on it. Job for tomorrow.

 

[deere 6600]

Must admit when we grew barley regularly sprayed it off with roundup killed off weeds plus can give a slightly earlier harvest If it wasn’t very ripe by mid August Sprayer on

 

[Flat 10]

Only just got away with a couple of bits of mine, cut yesterday but the bindweed was almost out the top

 

[Handy Andy]

Malting barley? Make sure it is below 30% moisture if you do spray it or you risk the germination. The peduncle (base of the ear) needs to be yellow and you can barely leave a nail mark on the grain.

Otherwise, crack on!

Feed barley. We did half of it last night, too windy today.
To be honest, I always wait too long before doing it. A lot of the heads have gone over and it just about passed the thumbnail test, ( I've got strong nails) but there's a lot of green in the tramlines and under the shadow of trees, etc.
Last year was 2nd and 3rd of September before we did it, loads of chickweed plus acres of late germinated stuff that was still green. After it was sprayed, it took so long to wither up enough to feed it through the combine that it was 11th October before I finished. I lost half of it on the ground, and then I had to get next door to dry it.

 

[Handy Andy]

Had a quick look on Wiki. "...it was introduced commercially for potato haulm desiccation in 1961", then banned in EU in 2018. A long period of usage. Not actually sure why is was banned??

A farmer near us used it to spray off his main crop marfona in a very dry spell and they took it in, down the stems. Brown patches inside a lot of them.
We used it sometimes if needed. If it was too dry to spray I used to chop the haulm with the hedgetrimmer in front of the harvester.

 

[dave6470]

A farmer near us used it to spray off his main crop marfona in a very dry spell and they took it in, down the stems. Brown patches inside a lot of them.
We used it sometimes if needed. If it was too dry to spray I used to chop the haulm with the hedgetrimmer in front of the harvester.

yep that was one of the downsides of reglone if it was very dry
though with me N Ireland that was vert rarely a problem