Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Took on some fields last autumn which had had a crop of naked oats on. Sprayed off a carpet of volunteers and flailed them off in 2 fields, then drilled with Claydon. Other fields the volunteers were too thick so they were either disced a couple of times or even ploughed in one case.
And the Claydon fields look awful, some parts of the field ok but some look like this.
About 50% looks ok like this:
Tissue tests show a little bit low in K which we’ve tried to correct with foliar K, but nothing major.
Disced fields are better and ploughed is ok.
Is this a likely effect of the oat trash poisoning the wheat? Allelopathy? Maybe coupled to the lack of rain which stopped any recovery? The straw had been baled but there was a carpet of volunteers?
We don’t grow oats ourselves so this is probably not a problem that will repeat itself I hope.
And the Claydon fields look awful, some parts of the field ok but some look like this.
About 50% looks ok like this:
Tissue tests show a little bit low in K which we’ve tried to correct with foliar K, but nothing major.
Disced fields are better and ploughed is ok.
Is this a likely effect of the oat trash poisoning the wheat? Allelopathy? Maybe coupled to the lack of rain which stopped any recovery? The straw had been baled but there was a carpet of volunteers?
We don’t grow oats ourselves so this is probably not a problem that will repeat itself I hope.