Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Usually for me a reseed is clean grazing, because it will be following at least 5 years of arable crops.
But if a old grass ley was grazed in the spring with dirty stock with worms & coccidosis in abundance. Then the field was sprayed off with roundup & direct drilled with new seeds. Surely the field would not be clean grazing, espcially with nematdrious & coccidiosis. I'm thinking of a sheep only farm of course.
I'm of the opinion that now Dursban is banned a fodder brassica or cereal breakcrop is a must in a reseeding programme. Am I wrong. I think it must be very hard for farmers on difficult land who only grow grass. Perhaps spring reseeding Autumn ploughed land is the only way to deal with leather jackets & frit fly etc?
But if a old grass ley was grazed in the spring with dirty stock with worms & coccidosis in abundance. Then the field was sprayed off with roundup & direct drilled with new seeds. Surely the field would not be clean grazing, espcially with nematdrious & coccidiosis. I'm thinking of a sheep only farm of course.
I'm of the opinion that now Dursban is banned a fodder brassica or cereal breakcrop is a must in a reseeding programme. Am I wrong. I think it must be very hard for farmers on difficult land who only grow grass. Perhaps spring reseeding Autumn ploughed land is the only way to deal with leather jackets & frit fly etc?