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Will No till put paid to the plough ? asks a piece in the FT.
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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Chiles" data-source="post: 9144886" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Ploughing bad black grass or brome fields isn’t a bad idea, I’ve done it once or twice but I had the view of never ploughing it again. </p><p>I think if you plough on a 20/25% basis it might not be successful as you’ll be digging up the seeds you’ve buried. </p><p>The late Jim Bullock had a field that he direct drilled for 8 years and had got on top of his grass weed problems. He had a particularly wet harvest and because he’d ruined his soil structure he ploughed the field and he said after he ploughed it his black grass problem re emerged. His conclusion was that he’d discovered that black grass seeds could survive at least 8 years of being buried. </p><p>We also had a field which had been direct drilled for years and didn’t have black grass until the government dug up the field to install a pipeline.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Chiles, post: 9144886, member: 1233"] Ploughing bad black grass or brome fields isn’t a bad idea, I’ve done it once or twice but I had the view of never ploughing it again. I think if you plough on a 20/25% basis it might not be successful as you’ll be digging up the seeds you’ve buried. The late Jim Bullock had a field that he direct drilled for 8 years and had got on top of his grass weed problems. He had a particularly wet harvest and because he’d ruined his soil structure he ploughed the field and he said after he ploughed it his black grass problem re emerged. His conclusion was that he’d discovered that black grass seeds could survive at least 8 years of being buried. We also had a field which had been direct drilled for years and didn’t have black grass until the government dug up the field to install a pipeline. [/QUOTE]
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