Grass weed explosion

[casemx 270]

Anyone else seeing a big grass weed explosion with this wet weather? So depressing rampant ryegrass and blackgrass in fields that looked clean post Christmas.

 

[Neddy flanders]

yes, youre not alone. T3 will be done with my eyes shut

 

[barr11]

Ours look terrible, ryegrass in fields that are usually pretty clean. Was meant to be putting a third of the farm in with spring barley to try and help the situation, as yet the seeds still in the bag as grounds too wet, and with more heavy rain forecast over night .

 

[HarryB97]

Some late germinating patches in the spring barley, at least it gives me a chance to try my hoe out!

 

[Green oak]

Anyone else seeing a big grass weed explosion with this wet weather? So depressing rampant ryegrass and blackgrass in fields that looked clean post Christmas.

will you still take the crop to harvest. Or spray off. I’m in the same situation

 

[teslacoils]

The last thing you need with high input prices etc is a crop thats cost £££ but doesnt make it to a combine.

 

[robs1]

Yes it's bad here and seeing it in many fields on my travels too, it's heading early this year too

 

[casemx 270]

will you still take the crop to harvest. Or spray off. I’m in the same situation

It's not my decision but I know my boss won't let me destroy it so it's not going to look pretty is it

 

[Green oak]

It's not my decision but I know my boss won't let me destroy it so it's not going to look pretty is it

Not if you’ve got a 30ft header on the combine.

 

[thorpe]

will you still take the crop to harvest. Or spray off. I’m in the same situation

so are we ryegrass must have been bred by the devil

 

[casemx 270]

Not if you’ve got a 30ft header on the combine.

40 ft header

 

[thorpe]

our neighbour has reputably the worst ryegrass problem's in the country! while spraying our boundries i said to my son , idon't know where this ryegrass has come from he replied them big combine's have got some fecking blow and i think he's right!

 

[jessop123]

yes, it seems like ryegrass is popping up everywhere this last month

 

[yellow belly]

our neighbour has reputably the worst ryegrass problem's in the country! while spraying our boundries i said to my son , idon't know where this ryegrass has come from he replied them big combine's have got some fecking blow and i think he's right!

Not sure that a big combine can produce seed !!

may be spread what is there around
1 plant per acre soon builds up in an continuous autumn planted situation

we sorted it 25 years ago with antlantis and spring crops
there is ryegrass and ryegrass our was s22 from the 1970s where a field was 2 blocks with a 1 m gap

 

[ajd132]

Our worst blackgrass by far is on a contract farm where the landowner decided to put half into an annual stubble fallow in countryside stewardship. It all headed and ran to seed extremely early last spring.
I think it’s made the problem ten times worse.

the rest of of the wheat is a mixed bag but I’m moderately happy.

a lot in the spring crops, will be running the inter row hoe through them all.

it doesn’t get any easier and it’s probably the main thing that really ruins farming for me, it’s such a nightmare. I hate thinking about it and looking at it. It can really make you feel like a failure sometimes even when it’s not too bad.

 

[Flat 10]

Our worst blackgrass by far is on a contract farm where the landowner decided to put half into an annual stubble fallow in countryside stewardship. It all headed and ran to seed extremely early last spring.
I think it’s made the problem ten times worse.

the rest of of the wheat is a mixed bag but I’m moderately happy.

a lot in the spring crops, will be running the inter row hoe through them all.

it doesn’t get any easier and it’s probably the main thing that really ruins farming for me, it’s such a nightmare. I hate thinking about it and looking at it. It can really make you feel like a failure sometimes even when it’s not too bad.

I don't think the BG should produce viable seed before the May 15th spray day.........
Feldspar might know.

 

[ajd132]

I don't think the BG should produce viable seed before the May 15th spray day.........
Feldspar might know.

I’ve already had this chat with feldspar. It must have done. It was a weird year.

 

[Bigjon44]

Axial pro

 

[farmerfred86]

Our worst blackgrass by far is on a contract farm where the landowner decided to put half into an annual stubble fallow in countryside stewardship. It all headed and ran to seed extremely early last spring.
I think it’s made the problem ten times worse.

the rest of of the wheat is a mixed bag but I’m moderately happy.

a lot in the spring crops, will be running the inter row hoe through them all.

it doesn’t get any easier and it’s probably the main thing that really ruins farming for me, it’s such a nightmare. I hate thinking about it and looking at it. It can really make you feel like a failure sometimes even when it’s not too bad.

Excellent post... think thats how many feel around here and nobody talks about it much. I think I'll also run our hoe through the spring barley, will need the row spacing adjusting but if i don't do it we'll need to spray areas off which will easily be the same value as the hoe. (With inputs as they are!)

 

[ajd132]

Excellent post... think thats how many feel around here and nobody talks about it much. I think I'll also run our hoe through the spring barley, will need the row spacing adjusting but if i don't do it we'll need to spray areas off which will easily be the same value as the hoe. (With inputs as they are!)

Chatting to another neighbour the other night in HQ. Feb drilled barley with a pre em. He has nuked the crop because of all the rain. Getting harder and harder.