Grassland Pre Harvest Roundup

[Derrick Hughes]

Does anyone do this ?
For Stubble Turnips

 

[Skintagain]

Does anyone do this ?
For Stubble Turnips

Never had balls to. Deep down Seems wrong to me too.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Never had balls to. Deep down Seems wrong to me too.

But if you feed barley to your cattle bought in ,chances are it same

 

[Al R]

It used to be something done quite regularly but it’s rare to hear of people doing it now. I’m not exactly sure of the benefit’s but I think it locked the protein and energy in the leaf and somehow made them better? It might have been the excuse i was given when spraying it for a farmer but those who used to do it were adamant it was best. Not much to gain this time of year but when you’ve got lush April grass and want 1 cut of silage before planting maize it helped then but once you sprayed it had to be mown at a set time after, if the weather broke it would soon go yellow

 

[Skintagain]

But if you feed barley to your cattle bought in ,chances are it same

Very True Derrick. Maybe I need to man up

 

[michael N123]

Get a better kill if and can direct drill another crop in the moment the fields cleared

 

[Bob the beef]

Done pretty often round here. As said above 5 days after spraying you HAVE to cut it regardless. Can get in with the drill straight after. Sadly this year I don't have enough growth to silage , so just grazing bare instead

 

[michael N123]

Done pretty often round here. As said above 5 days after spraying you HAVE to cut it regardless. Can get in with the drill straight after. Sadly this year I don't have enough growth to silage , so just grazing bare instead

Cut some grass for a fella a few years back been sprayed off for 2-3 weeks and it was standing hay

 

[ISCO]

We rounduped some grass on Monday with some a bit long for DD turnips so are going to graze before drilling which label and spray rep said ok. Was slightly apprehensive but as said above, we have pre harvest sprayed barley and fed to cattle which is similar.
I thought benefit of spraying standing crop was that you saved a couple of weeks waiting for regrowth to spray.

 

[jh.]

Did it a few years ago for someone . Think it had been 4year silage going into wheat and agronomist said to spray standing silage , get it lifted and ploughed and run press over it every 3 or 4 days until drilled . Seemed to work as no thinning by leather jackets in following wheat crop .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It leaves some wheelings where sprayer goes

 

[hally]

It leaves some wheelings where sprayer goes

Yeah and for some reason seeds never seem to germinate Properly in those wheelings, we used to do it regularly but tend to go after silage nowadays as if the weather goes tits up ( as it often does around here) it can take some mowing in a big crop.