Should I Roundup my barley stubble?

[Selectamatic]

Through one thing and another, I did not spray my winter barley this year, and sorely regret it now.

The plan is to rip up the stubble and sow some stubble turnips / kale / rape etc

The field is covered in weeds, allsorts.

Question is, should i spray it off, kill it all, or is it a waste of time as the harrows will destroy the weeds I see anyway?

 

[spin cycle]

spray it.....weeds'll clog harrows...re root and compete with ST

 

[thorpe]

Through one thing and another, I did not spray my winter barley this year, and sorely regret it now.

The plan is to rip up the stubble and sow some stubble turnips / kale / rape etc

The field is covered in weeds, allsorts.

Question is, should i spray it off, kill it all, or is it a waste of time as the harrows will destroy the weeds I see anyway?

spray clean start!

 

[Bobthebuilder]

or plough the weeds in and make a nice seed bed for rape/turnips

 

[Flat 10]

Plough or spray as said. Plough it and post a picture so that we can look at your match ploughing and wish we had the skills, time and equipment to do as good a job.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Through one thing and another, I did not spray my winter barley this year, and sorely regret it now.

The plan is to rip up the stubble and sow some stubble turnips / kale / rape etc

The field is covered in weeds, allsorts.

Question is, should i spray it off, kill it all, or is it a waste of time as the harrows will destroy the weeds I see anyway?

Yes. I would definitely spray the stubble off but it would depend on the kind of weeds and what size they are. I may reduce the rate accordingly if they are small.

If you bury a collection of weeds that are capable of coming back up from rootmass, they will be immune to many autumn herbicides.

 

[Ormond]

I'd spray off and sow the turnips.....ploughed for ST before....no huge advantage on the growing aspect and leaves the ground soft for grazing sheep if it comes wet

 

[deleted user 837354]

I'd spray off and sow the turnips.....ploughed for ST before....no huge advantage on the growing aspect and leaves the ground soft for grazing sheep if it comes wet

I agree, don't see any advantage to ploughing for turnips. They grow like weeds even if just broadcast and harrowed in. Had a client who did exactly that, he even used to throw a modest dose of chicken muck on first as well. Need to get away from this fascination of burying things. Roundup it and drill a day later.

 

[DanniAgro]

Nuke 'em from orbit is the only way to get rid of the weeds.

 

[tw15]

Just sown just over 250 acres of stubble turnips into standing swheat/ww/sb just 50 acres left to do in the morning then 60-70 acres of osr into ww . Hope it works as it is the first year doing it this way .

 

[Ormond]

Wanting to spread them with the fertiliser this year...to speed things up after a light cultivation... any easy/ novel ways of mixing the turnip/rape seed evenly-ish with the fertiliser... about 50 acres to do

 

[tw15]

Best off doing the turnips separately at 12 mtrs then do the fert . Turnips won't go anymore than 12mtrs in most spreaders .

 

[Ormond]

I tried doing the turnips separate one year....all went OK until the seed got lowish then it wanted to all run out......amazone spreader