Mechanical weeding

[Mark Hatton]

Got to see the Vaderstad Extract V Inter Row Cultivator working in Maize, is mechanical weeding being used more in Veg production than it ever has been?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Sadly due to no other options we use insect netting to protect swedes from rootfly.

So cannot hoe which is a real pity

 

[Lewis821]

Inter row spot spraying combined with hoeing is the way forward, 8 spot sprayers running locally on the large veg units

 

[flowerpot]

You have never sat on a weeder in a sugar beet crop?