Spring barley in winter barley

[MF 390T]

I've got a field with with quite a bit of spring barley through the winter barley smothering it in the worst places. What's the best way, if any of killing the spring barley back?

 

[bobk]

There isn't , shouldn't worry It'll come together with a bit of luck and glypho.

 

[limestone cowboy]

Leave it. Feed or malting? take the hit for feed or go to the expense of ploughing it in and drilling spring barley and end up having winter barley in spring barley. No brainer

 

[MF 390T]

Thanks, its feed barley so it is. I was hoping a heavy enough frost would take it out but its still growing. If the field was closer to home I would have tried putting sheep onto it to take it out.

 

[Brisel]

I have this problem too. My rotation involves winter feed barley after spring malting barley. The negatives of this are the disease carryover - I have had to treat with 0.25 litres of Cortez for the net blotch already & the winter barley is a third cereal in the rotation so can be prone to take all. It does spread harvesting & allows a good timely entry into oilseed rape.

There's nothing you can really do about spring barley volunteers in winter barley. Just aim for a feed sample & manage the disease as best as you can. Use stale seedbeds before planting the winter barley.

I can think of worse weeds you can have in a barley crop...

 

[Barleycorn]

Whole crop?

 

[Brisel]

@MF390T - just how bad are the volunteers? Can you upload a picture? I'll see if I can post one of mine.

 

[MF390T]

Wrong MF390T. Try tagging MF 390T (with the space after MF) There seems to be 2 of us

 

[neilo]

Thanks, its feed barley so it is. I was hoping a heavy enough frost would take it out but its still growing. If the field was closer to home I would have tried putting sheep onto it to take it out.

Are sheep not an option? I had 2 fields on WB where the SB had gone down previously, so a few thick patches of volunteers that were swamping the WB. Grazed it out with sheep, and the frost has tickled the SB enough since to be able to see the tramlines again.

 

[Brisel]

Wrong MF390T. Try tagging MF 390T (with the space after MF) There seems to be 2 of us

Sorry!

 

[Brisel]

Is this what yours looks like?

 

[MF 390T]

View attachment 108072 Is this what yours looks like?

I'll try and get a picture up at the weekend, if the snow melts that is! In some places its much worse than that especially where the beneath the combine.

 

[neilo]

View attachment 108072 Is this what yours looks like?

Wow! Look at those clean boots.

 

[Brisel]

They didn't look like that by the end of my walk across the clay bit of that field...

 

[7610 super q]

Save starting another thread.....

Due to the silly 3 crop rule, I'm going to grow winter and spring barley. I presume it's OK to mix together to make up a load ( feed ) ?
Otherwise, I could end up with 2 part loads of each.......

 

[yellow belly]

Mixed Feed barley is feed barley whatever the mix

 

[MattR]

Save starting another thread.....

Due to the silly 3 crop rule, I'm going to grow winter and spring barley. I presume it's OK to mix together to make up a load ( feed ) ?
Otherwise, I could end up with 2 part loads of each.......

Don't know about anyone else, but we never bother keeping w & s feed barley separate. Often top up bins of winter with spring etc

 

[7610 super q]

Thanks, thought / hoped as much.

 

[neilo]

The only cereals I grow are S.Barley and W.Barley, both for feed. One of the reasons for that is to keep things simple, with one heap in the shed and no problems with the odd volunteer plant that might make it.