Roguing

Please shoot me down if you think this is a stupid idea, but it's just a thought I had today, so I've made no advances or nothing but was wondering if it may work, my idea was rouging black grass/wild oats etc for local farms , I've never done it and I'm not underestimating it, I know you have to take up the whole root, and put them in a bag and when full move to the headland, I've heard that wild oats aren't that hard to get up but black grass is, that correct? I've also heard that it is boring job and even worse in the sun but is hasn't put me off yet, how hard is rouging? How do you do it so you trample the least you can? Work with the tramlines? How much would I get paid? I'm not too fussed about the money but obviously I don't to be ripped off to badly, it just a sudden thought I had to today, I'm not a farmer, yet, so I tell me, is this a really bad idea that I should forget about?(I'm not to sure how you spell it , rouging or roughing)
 
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spin cycle

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north norfolk
rouging (how do you spell it?:rolleyes:) is very much a 'rite of passage' for young people in agriculture....students get recruited before harvest and spend a couple of weeks settling in whilst rouging wild oats,weed beet etc....heavy infestations can be soul destroying...but 2 or 3 of you just walking the fields taking odd weeds to prevent seeding is ok:)....be careful in sun and dehyrdation and good luck:)
 

nick...

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Arable Farmer
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south norfolk
Thats soul destroying work.i remember when i left school i spent a week counting vining peas.throw a stick,measure a square metre and count plants.boring
Nick...
 

KMA

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Location
Dumfriesshire
Decent tunes on your MP3, or whatever the latest gadget is now, and away you go. Would bore me senseless but some folks are quite happy doing mundane, routine stuff.
 

RobFZS

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its ok when there's the odd one dotted about the field and you can see progress, but an acre of the stuff in close succession really does your head in, did half a tote bag of docks the other day and that was enough for a few months for me, and it soon wears you out with stuff like ragwort and long roots
 

Badshot

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Location
Kent
The rogueing gangs round here seem to be charging £11+ /hr/person. It is a soul destroying job pulling blackgrass, but if you want to earn some money and are willing to work hard the opportunity is there.
 

Dan7626

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Been doing it all bloody day today, the ground is so dry and hard here you've got a job to pull them out by the root at the moment.Not the nicest of jobs but it needs to be done.
All I do is put my iPod on and just get on with it and the time goes fairly fast.
And make sure you take a drink with you in this weather or else you will struggle.
 
Been doing it all bloody day today, the ground is so dry and hard here you've got a job to pull them out by the root at the moment.Not the nicest of jobs but it needs to be done.
All I do is put my iPod on and just get on with it and the time goes fairly fast.
And make sure you take a drink with you in this weather or else you will struggle.
How would I start, just make make some advertisement posters and post them through the letterbox of the farm and see if I get contacted? I've never done it before so is it a job that I could just turn up and do without someone showing me? I know you have to try and get the root out but is there way to trample the crop less?
 

Sonoftheheir

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Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
Been doing it today too! Wild oats are pretty easy, grass is a PIA.
Get some insect repellant too, gad flies buzzing around your head all day is not nice.

Ps don't start next wk in the heat wave!
 

Dan7626

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How would I start, just make make some advertisement posters and post them through the letterbox of the farm and see if I get contacted? I've never done it before so is it a job that I could just turn up and do without someone showing me? I know you have to try and get the root out but is there way to trample the crop less?
I guess that would be your best bet, I'm sure most farmers would love someone to offer to help roguing.
As far as flattening the crop, it doesn't do much damage as long as you are careful and use the tramlines as much as you can.
 

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