Within 21 days, Flat 10, we'll all be praying for a bit of rain.
17 to go.
What do you pre em withGetting some pre-em on what was drilled a few days ago. Travelling really well.
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Does liberator have an off label ?
What rate is it used at
That’s what I thought tooLooks like PDM to me!
You can use liberator at 0.3lha I think
Yes ideally you want a levelling board and a crumbler in that scenario. And to hope you can roll behind if you are very lucky.OK....always drill into PH'd ground. A few years ago, the power harrow broke down, and I drilled the remaining 3 acres into roughly cultivated ( with a pigtail cultivator ) soil. Surprise , surprise, the barley didn't do so well. The tilth looked OK. I assume it's the variation in drilling depth that's the problem then ? Would some sort of levelling board help ?
Seriously thinking of a quick cultivation, and sowing, if the weather hasn't improved by the end of April.
I was talking to a FWAG person last week about this stupidity by defra of not allowing a cover crop to be planted with this option, he completely agreed and said if enough people complain about it there is a possibility it will change.This is a topic that I keep thinking about at the moment in relation to the Mid Tier extended overwinter stubble option. The rules, as you well know, are that you can spray off for black-grass from 15 May onwards but can only start doing what you want with the field after 1 August. Given these rules, what are the best ways of managing the fallow to reduce as far as possible the effects from a fallow that you describe?
I would hope to leave enough losses out the back of the combine so that there was a crop of whatever had been harvested growing in the field for the first part of the year. After 15 May, if the field had been sprayed with glyphosate for black-grass, there would be a bare period for a while. Would it really be worth planting a cover crop from 1 August to help dry the soil before direct drilling wheat in late September / early October? For OSR did you have problems drilling it into a fallowed field? Was the ground lacking in tilth?
I was talking to a FWAG person last week about this stupidity by defra of not allowing a cover crop to be planted with this option, he completely agreed and said if enough people complain about it there is a possibility it will change.
Could always broadcast a mix on at night in the spring and says it must be volunteers!
Middle of spring, and so far as far as I can see we aren’t even at the start of spring. Hedges are only just budding now.At what point are folks considering the shut off for spring drilling cereals? What's next to consider? Linseed?
I can see it being May on my heavier warp it's very wet, the lighter stuff will hopefully go in at the end of this week. I'd rather not fallow as the cover crop has been sprayed off already and don't want the soil biology sitting hungryNot yet! I'd rather fallow than grow linseed again! Shame because it's a great soil conditioner. I will continue planning for April drilling. Get to early May and I'll reconsider.