fieldfarmer
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Fully agree, I won't use it to ripen a crop but will use it if a patch of grass /weed etc needs burning back to harvest at the same time as the rest of the field.
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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- Location
- Ceredigion
It's normal to use roundup especially on Rape and Winter Barley , I can't see farmers turning their back on it in a dificult years because it may get banned , recent price rise may put a few off
fieldfarmer
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No it not normal, some do some don't, please don't state we all blanket spray round up on these crops.
Cecil snear
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Farmers round here were chucking roundup around like confetti on spring barley last year because of secondary growth they just couldn't wait for it to ripen naturally and imo lost out on some yield because of it.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Rape has a large canopy so more difficult and slow to ripen naturally but
very little need or justification with winter barley.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Normal as in it's used on some fields every year by some , nothing to hide from , I spray all my grass fields when I reseed , if your worry about using it then don't use it
fieldfarmer
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Not worried about using it appropriately at all, but to someone reading from out side our industry your post read that as the norm all osr and barely is sprayed with round up and this is simply not so.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Sorry did not mean that
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
Derrick is maybe a few years out but many did ten years ago, I know of 3000 acre cropping operations that did the lot, even dairy farmers would roundup a westerwold in late April, silage it then put Maize in, you do not remember the advertising campaign ‘sunshine in a can’?
In all honesty most of us wanted it gone and out the way .
fieldfarmer
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No. Sorry I don't. But then I'm 50 and can sometimes not remember what I had for tea last night.
, have heard it called liquid sunshine though.- Location
- somerset
as much as l dislike saying this, perhaps the best solution would be to seriously control it's use, because the green brigade have got it in their sites, to ban it completely. If we are using it any and everything, they have got an argument to ban it, if use is strictly 'controlled', we have an argument, to keep it, in certain cases. I seriously would not like to farm without it now, when it first arrived, it was the 'miracle cure' we'd all been waiting for.
I have never used it on grass, pre silaging, it doesn't seem a 'right' thing to do, although plenty do, with no bother, so personal preference.
I have never used it on grass, pre silaging, it doesn't seem a 'right' thing to do, although plenty do, with no bother, so personal preference.
- Location
- somerset
there's quite a few 500 + dairies down that way, they all rush round, like blue assed flies. What is the point, also know of several dairy farmers, that have rushed around to much, me included, that are now pretty well knacked, it's only with hindsight, and to late, that you realise these things.
Because the primary ears would have dropped off long before the secondary tillers would have been fit. Had I not used Roundup, I would have ended up with 1/4 ton an acre of unsaleable chaff.
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
David Hardie, the Royal farms manager at the time was pictured in the long walk in one advertising campaign for Roundup.No. Sorry I don't. But then I'm 50 and can sometimes not remember what I had for tea last night.
- Location
- Cheshire
Trouble is would you buy bedding hay knowing it’s full of rush, thistle, nettle, dock and god knows what else? I certainly wouldn’t. It’s like the arable boys go on and on about buying in bedding straw for their cattle with black grass in it… weeds grow fast enough without spreading muck full of bloody seeds!
best end for that
is the power stationIt was the ultimate shitfest , oddly the voluteers in this years winter crops look quite good .
I have had some of it, to be honest it wasn't to bad just old grass and I didn't give anything for it, saved a load of strawTrouble is would you buy bedding hay knowing it’s full of rush, thistle, nettle, dock and god knows what else? I certainly wouldn’t. It’s like the arable boys go on and on about buying in bedding straw for their cattle with black grass in it… weeds grow fast enough without spreading muck full of bloody seeds!
best end for that
I normally don’t use it. And it’s had two big jumps in price in the last few weeks.