Docks, what to do?

[Jockers84]

Have taken on a little bit more ground, there’s a fair crop of docks in a couple of patches as you’ll see, other parts are clear with decent grass, drainage, fencing and piped water are all good. Have knocked them down today, what’s best to do now?

 

[livestock 1]

They will need to regrow then spray them 2.5 l ha Thrust and 1 l ha larke

 

[davidroberts30]

Top them again in 3weeks and if possible 3weeks again
As its "set aside" use "ally" 3 weeks after 3rd topping,you should have a 90%kill of dock.
It will check the grass but looking at the pics it's best to write this year off and get a good start next year

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Minstrel is cheap and will kill them

 

[David1968]

Top them 2 or 3 times then spray next Spring. You never get a better kill than when they're just coming out of the Winter with their reserves depleted ime.

 

[M-J-G]

Is it possible to reseed it?

A spring time reseed, with great old sward killed off with glyphosate and a spray on the seedlings post emergence is about the only long-term clean up I've had good success with.

Everything else tends to be chasing the problem around in circles.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Top them again in 3weeks and if possible 3weeks again
As its "set aside" use "ally" 3 weeks after 3rd topping,you should have a 90%kill of dock.
It will check the grass but looking at the pics it's best to write this year off and get a good start next year

What grass

 

[nails]

Have taken on a little bit more ground, there’s a fair crop of docks in a couple of patches as you’ll see, other parts are clear with decent grass, drainage, fencing and piped water are all good. Have knocked them down today, what’s best to do now?

Dont do yourself down . THAT is a fantastic crop of Docks.
As said Round Up , Reseed, no clover, and keep spraying with whatever is reccomended

 

[som farmer]

tell your neighbours its a 'herbal' ley.

then spray with forefront, and say the herbal ley failed.

 

[glasshouse]

tell your neighbours its a 'herbal' ley.

then spray with forefront, and say the herbal ley failed.

But you cant use the field for hay after that

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Whatever you do it's going to take more than one action to sort that , I have a bad field ,put it into Kale , nearly smothers the kale until the kale fought back , but all that seed just sitting there , it's just been sown with straight Hybrid Ryegrsss, as soon as there are 3 leaves showing on the grass it will be hit with Minstrel and again if it needs it , then in a few years if it's clean I will overseed it with minimum soil disturbance, not forgetting all those dock seeds down bellow

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Christ that an impressive crop of docks

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Christ that an impressive crop of docks

You ain't seen mine ,and it's not odd patches either

 

[milkloss]

When that lot comes back I would hit it with full rate fluroxypyr and again next spring. When those dock die there will be another bunch of seeds undercover waiting to come through. Avoid reseeding for a year or two or else the seed bank will get mixed in the soil profile.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You ain't seen mine ,and it's not odd patches either

Put a pic up

 

[som farmer]

Christ that an impressive crop of docks

we ploughed an old ley/pp wall to wall docks, looked like an impressive crop of stubble turnips.

2x r-up, into spring beans, Simazine on them, smothered out by docks, took 10 years of cereals before you could say clean'.

the biggest mistake was ploughing, kept bringing up dock seeds. Would now love to know, how it would have done with in-til, or dd.

 

[davidroberts30]

we ploughed an old ley/pp wall to wall docks, looked like an impressive crop of stubble turnips.

2x r-up, into spring beans, Simazine on them, smothered out by docks, took 10 years of cereals before you could say clean'.

the biggest mistake was ploughing, kept bringing up dock seeds. Would now love to know, how it would have done with in-til, or dd.

yes,just harrow f**k out of whats left and get a flush of docks

 

[DaveGrohl]

That field deserves a round of applause.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Put a pic up

I've reseeded it
But these are some pictures from the Corteva trail plots same field
Leystar, New Clover Safe Spray and untreated

 

[Cowlife]

I'd resign myself to spraying at least one a year maybe twice for the next 5 years. It will Get better. Prob need a reseed but there a lit of surface seed to consider.