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EddieB

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Arable Farmer
Location
Staffs
As above! In the past I have used glyphosate treated OSR straight out of the barn to finish drilling if I have run out of seed, always performed as well as new seed.
 

JeremyD

Member
Arable Farmer
No difference whatsoever. Even hybred seed seems ok! I have run out of seed in the past and have scooped seed off the heap and you can't even tell the difference even when driving the combine harvesting. It does make me wonder sometimes about the cost of seed!
 

4course

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
north yorks
Glypho at the correct stage in the past didnt affect germ or vigour but isnt there some rule about not using it on seeds destined for sowing . just clean it hard and riddle out to save the largest and heaviest seed to get better early growth and vigour for any seed
 

Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
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Coming well where a bit of straw burnt, not so obvious where it didn’t burn
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
It is illegal, according to the glyphosate labels. If you have sprayed it onto unripe seeds then they won’t be viable or have low vigour. In reality, if you have sprayed it off a few days late then most of the seed won’t be affected IMO.

If you are going to do it, it’s best not to talk about it in a public Internet forum. If you’re not, carry on with the thread! 😁
 

redsloe

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
It is illegal, according to the glyphosate labels. If you have sprayed it onto unripe seeds then they won’t be viable or have low vigour. In reality, if you have sprayed it off a few days late then most of the seed won’t be affected IMO.

If you are going to do it, it’s best not to talk about it in a public Internet forum. If you’re not, carry on with the thread! 😁
Hypothetically of course.

@Brisel have you dessicated your spring sown winter oats? My tiny trial plot is still turning colour🤔
 

Oat

Member
Location
Cheshire
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Coming well where a bit of straw burnt, not so obvious where it didn’t burn
I have seen a similar effect in a field where I had a bonfire. The ground was still warm from the heat, so I don't know if it was the warm soil (from residual bonfire heat, or darker soil 'absorbing' more solar energy), or if it was the additional nutrients in the ash, but the rape always looked bigger, healthier and darker green.
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I have seen a similar effect in a field where I had a bonfire. The ground was still warm from the heat, so I don't know if it was the warm soil (from residual bonfire heat, or darker soil 'absorbing' more solar energy), or if it was the additional nutrients in the ash, but the rape always looked bigger, healthier and darker green.
There is extra carbon there, you should have lived through the big winter barley straw burning era to see what it did to fallen barley heads and blackgrass seeds... hardly needed a herbicide.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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