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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 6643402" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I thought you’d stepped off the chemical farming gravy train these days? That tenner an acre for dock sprays, several times, also takes out the clover (& any of the ‘herbs’ that seem to be getting popular for sward inclusion these days), meaning you have to use more N to maintain output. </p><p></p><p>I have a field that the previous tenant sublet to a local dairy farmer for maize. After that farmer reseeded it, it was smothered in docks, which I am still battling with 7 years later. The P&K from the slurry was all removed by the maize crop, leaving the field with indices at zero, and stubbornly refusing to move despite only ever grazing it. </p><p>Two good doses of Fibrophos have finally shifted it up a notch, without bringing any more docks in, the docks are getting down to (extensive) spot/patch spraying, and clover is slowly getting re-established. After ten years, I hope to have repaired the damage done from that slurry & maize.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 6643402, member: 348"] I thought you’d stepped off the chemical farming gravy train these days? That tenner an acre for dock sprays, several times, also takes out the clover (& any of the ‘herbs’ that seem to be getting popular for sward inclusion these days), meaning you have to use more N to maintain output. I have a field that the previous tenant sublet to a local dairy farmer for maize. After that farmer reseeded it, it was smothered in docks, which I am still battling with 7 years later. The P&K from the slurry was all removed by the maize crop, leaving the field with indices at zero, and stubbornly refusing to move despite only ever grazing it. Two good doses of Fibrophos have finally shifted it up a notch, without bringing any more docks in, the docks are getting down to (extensive) spot/patch spraying, and clover is slowly getting re-established. After ten years, I hope to have repaired the damage done from that slurry & maize. [/QUOTE]
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