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- Haute Vienne, France
My grandfather would have recommended a "barsteward fallow" by which he meant no crop for a year and just keep moving the ground
My grandfather would have recommended a "barsteward fallow" by which he meant no crop for a year and just keep moving the ground
I’m not keen on moving the soil as your just mixing the seeds throughout the soil profile. Full inversion doesn’t work at 14 inches to bury it so how would light cultivation’s help?
If the seeds on the surface like it is now it stays there. Our issue is the chemistry doesn’t work.
I wonder if a crop burner would work?
I don’t know, is it ? Can’t see how it would be because we’ve never scrimped on herbicides because you can’t.
i would blame too many cereals in your rotation if anything ??? - crops like beans, osr, linseed etc may not provide exciting margins but they allow different chemical spectrums and diversity in drilling and harvest dates which all help reduce resistance buildup ??
is the problem any better or worse on your soils that have had potatoes in the rotation ?
If you are not controlling Ryegrass in maize what are you spraying it with?
Never grew maize in the UK and rarely grow it here but the chemistry available to you is totally different to most other crops if pushed into a corner by resistance it would have to be my best option.Nicosulfuron is the favourite in UK maize for grass weeds.
Just been reading through this thread and imagining what the cost of all these multi spray applications (that don't appear to work) must beDon't fight it, embrace it. Sow it down to a long term ley, fence it and get some stock on it. Builds lots of lovely organic matter.
Out here in the world of livestock farming, I'm afraid that's the risk that a lot of us have to take.All well and good grassing it down, would you fancy stock on a block of land 6 miles from home with no fences, no water and near a rough housing estate with all the fun that that entails.
The key is to stop seed return just the same as bg. We grow westerwold for haylage and have up until last year never had an issue with it in the following wheat, we took a late third cut last year and have it in some barley
Getting it cut before viable seed set would be my priority. You will always get some shed seeds or dropped heads from any system.But surely the timing and number of ‘cuts’ is irrelevant? It’s getting the cut before the seed shred from the heads?
There was a thread on here where a seed salesman was actually advising people to use ryegrass in arable rotations..... I couldn't think of worse advice, but you only need to mention "grass seed" and you get this .