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Regen Ag General Discussion
Direct Drilling post glyphosate
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<blockquote data-quote="hendrebc" data-source="post: 5418352" data-attributes="member: 70166"><p>I've been thinking about this the last two days while doing my DD barley whole crop and I think I know what I'll do here (livestock but growing our own cereals and forage crops) without glyphosate at least. </p><p>Late summer year one leave the grass to grow long for winter and keep cattle on it so they mostly kill the grass by standing on it over winter being careful not to poach it too badly. Do cows count as cultivation?</p><p>Spring year two nibble whatever grows back to the ground with sheep in early spring and if it needs it around feeding areas a light level off with my old Ransomes disc or an old pig tail cultivator thing I drafted in out of the nettles a few weeks ago. To level the ground that's been wrecked NOT to cultivate the whole field. Then as soon as it's warm enough go straight in dd with either oats or triticale something that will grow very quickly and get away from any weeds and hopefully smother most of them. Peas might be an option too they are pretty good at smothering things. That would probably be taken as whole crop in July and then a forage rape or turnip drilled straight into the stubble. Sheep grazing that over winter will do a pretty good job of killing anything underneath that and it would hopefully be clean enough either for a straight to grass and clover reseed or another cereal or forage crop. If it needed weeding it could have a light Harrow or some sort maybe the pigtail thing I rescued even. </p><p>I haven't given up on pasture cropping yet either if I could overseed oats and kale into permanent pasture without killing the grass that grows underneath I wouldn't bother with anything else.</p><p>As for what you arable lot are going to do I dont know but I don't envy you one bit of it does get banned</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hendrebc, post: 5418352, member: 70166"] I've been thinking about this the last two days while doing my DD barley whole crop and I think I know what I'll do here (livestock but growing our own cereals and forage crops) without glyphosate at least. Late summer year one leave the grass to grow long for winter and keep cattle on it so they mostly kill the grass by standing on it over winter being careful not to poach it too badly. Do cows count as cultivation? Spring year two nibble whatever grows back to the ground with sheep in early spring and if it needs it around feeding areas a light level off with my old Ransomes disc or an old pig tail cultivator thing I drafted in out of the nettles a few weeks ago. To level the ground that's been wrecked NOT to cultivate the whole field. Then as soon as it's warm enough go straight in dd with either oats or triticale something that will grow very quickly and get away from any weeds and hopefully smother most of them. Peas might be an option too they are pretty good at smothering things. That would probably be taken as whole crop in July and then a forage rape or turnip drilled straight into the stubble. Sheep grazing that over winter will do a pretty good job of killing anything underneath that and it would hopefully be clean enough either for a straight to grass and clover reseed or another cereal or forage crop. If it needed weeding it could have a light Harrow or some sort maybe the pigtail thing I rescued even. I haven't given up on pasture cropping yet either if I could overseed oats and kale into permanent pasture without killing the grass that grows underneath I wouldn't bother with anything else. As for what you arable lot are going to do I dont know but I don't envy you one bit of it does get banned [/QUOTE]
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