Hand roguing blackgrass.

[snarling bee]

Been out this morning to do wild oats, found my first blackgrass.

Welcome to the party.

 

[snarling bee]

It is definitely moved about by combines and balers. As are brome and WO.

 

[manhill]

Think its best to remove them and burn them. Need some sort of under arm bag strapped round the shoulders/back, to spread the weight, to fill up and drop off at the headlands. Its a pretty crap job especially if your on your own

Or an Indian tea harvesting basket?

 

[teslacoils]

So equivalent to around a little over a tonne hectare of Spring Barley. Accrued towards the net margin over the rotation for that field. So for most folk a Spring Barley crop is a more cost effective route to managing the population of blackgrass in an individual field than hand roguing.

I hate, IE don't, rogue in barley. I've never paid folk to do it. You could easily loose a lot of crop from inexperienced trudging.

I think with farm saved seed, digestate, and a minimalist spray program, that a two ton spring barley crop at £150 a ton could be viable even with a rent to pay.

 

[Flat 10]

I hate, IE don't, rogue in barley. I've never paid folk to do it. You could easily loose a lot of crop from inexperienced trudging.

I think with farm saved seed, digestate, and a minimalist spray program, that a two ton spring barley crop at £150 a ton could be viable even with a rent to pay.

At 150 yes

 

[DanniAgro]

It is definitely moved about by combines and balers. As are brome and WO.

The combine must be the most brilliant device ever devised for weed dispersal - it's got a thousand crevices in it that can hold onto small seeds for many different lengths of time, guaranteeing that a few get spat out of the back every acre or so.