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Download PDF Tight supplies and buoyant markets aren’t the only reasons growers may opt to plant spring barley this year, it also offers more competition against grassweeds than spring wheat. CPM explores how nailing early season agronomy can help stamp out weeds. It’s much easier to control small grassweeds – so early applications are better. By Melanie Jenkins Spring barley is particularly good in grassweed situations, providing more competition against things such as blackgrass than spring wheat. But getting it established correctly is essential and will set it up correctly to meet a growers’ end market goals. Spring cropping is one of the main cultural controls for blackgrass, explains Syngenta’s Kathryn Hamlen. “Blackgrass germinates more frequently in autumn, so planting spring crops allows more opportunity for stale seed beds before drilling and reduces the number of blackgrass plants coming up in the crop.” And when comparing it with spring wheat, spring barley tillers a lot more, so competes more above and below ground – blocking sunlight and having a smothering effect on weeds, she adds. But to have this competitive ability, spring barley requires good establishment, says Georgina Young of Syngenta. “If a poor crop of spring barley is established,…
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Download PDF Tight supplies and buoyant markets aren’t the only reasons growers may opt to plant spring barley this year, it also offers more competition against grassweeds than spring wheat. CPM explores how nailing early season agronomy can help stamp out weeds. It’s much easier to control small grassweeds – so early applications are better. By Melanie Jenkins Spring barley is particularly good in grassweed situations, providing more competition against things such as blackgrass than spring wheat. But getting it established correctly is essential and will set it up correctly to meet a growers’ end market goals. Spring cropping is one of the main cultural controls for blackgrass, explains Syngenta’s Kathryn Hamlen. “Blackgrass germinates more frequently in autumn, so planting spring crops allows more opportunity for stale seed beds before drilling and reduces the number of blackgrass plants coming up in the crop.” And when comparing it with spring wheat, spring barley tillers a lot more, so competes more above and below ground – blocking sunlight and having a smothering effect on weeds, she adds. But to have this competitive ability, spring barley requires good establishment, says Georgina Young of Syngenta. “If a poor crop of spring barley is established,…
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