How do you know it was clean only one or two plants in your crop and mixed threw seed ,seed cleaners are not 100%
How to control soft brome
- Thread starter tr250
- Start date
Straight off heap no cleaning. It’s baffled me as we’ve only ever had wild oats and an odd blackgrass
ollie989898
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Just walk in the crop and find out if the stems are in the drill rows, if they are then you can be sure you drilled it.
Will look tomorrow, what do you suggest. Will pre harvest roundup make seeds unviable. Still very green at moment. Probably bang some in with spring barley and the rest stubble turnips
Have you many acres rough it
Not really, have rogued a bit but will struggle to get round all of it.
After harvest leAve it a month so all bromes are in the possible best state to grow light disc leave to germinate when grown round up light disc put light cover of wheat or barley say half rate spray with flufenacet and dff to keep it relatively clean from other grass weeds round up in spring as late as posible then disc and put you spring crop in . Just ideas.
- Location
- Shropshire
Will be interested in the collective view of pre-harvest round up. Busy roguing meadow brome out of wheat and leaving the barley on this basis. My only concern is that we had it coming up through rape last year (!) and the following wheat crop is full of it despite desiccation, albeit later than we would do for barley.
- Location
- Shropshire
I would further add that broadway star has not touched meadow brome but seems to have dealt with any sterile brome.
ollie989898
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Unless the levels of grassweeds are that high it will affect combining etc I am unsure that pre-harvest roundup will have much affect on the levels of weed seed growing next year. I would be making plans to change the rotation if the problem is that bad.
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Hatra is a Brilliant in WW that esp had no backend weed control.
- Location
- Suffolk
everyone seems to be complaining about brome this year... clearly been a good year for it, not necessarily anyone at fault
ollie989898
Member
I think much depends on conditions when the grassweed products are applied. A cold spring seemed to fudge my broadway star/pacifica applications despite all the will in the world.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
we sprayed hatra in march with medioca results april spray near to 100% control
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
How does anyone think roundup will make brome or other weedseeds unviable?
- Location
- Shropshire
If you sprayed your wheat off now do you think it would grow?
it will kill a proportion before germination is set
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
If the wheat is ripe, the weeds will be too
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Ten%