Volunteer barley destruction

[Handy Andy]

I've got a couple of stubble fields with some volunteer spring barley that would be difficult to bury completely with the plough as they are my brashiest, thinnest soils. I don't want to have to spray it, and have no sheep now. I was thinking about rolling it in the frost. Has anybody done this and does it work? Whenever poachers have driven about in my fields on a frosty night, the wheel tracks seem to burn off nicely.

 

[Spencer]

Yes did it last winter on spring oat and spring barley stubble. Worked a treat, was a hard frost mind

 

[David.]

I'm surprised you can roll for less money than 2 litres of 360, which would definitely take care of all transplantable grassweeds.

 

[Woody j]

Why don’t you want to spray it

 

[Brisel]

You will need a serious frost to get a good kill with rolling, which won't do small grass weeds.

 

[Nearly]

If you want to kill it it won't.
If you roll the winter barley crop on the same day it will kill it.

 

[Spencer]

We rolled ours as the oats had got huge and didn’t want the allopathic effects of spraying too close to seeding. Rolling absolutely nailed them, still used glyphosate at seeding to tidy everything else up but the rolling definitely helped lesson the biomass 2 months before seeding