Winter beans drilled, well up, but no chem applied. what options?

Crawler when it is cold is effective on grass weeds

pendimethalin will damage beans even pre emergent when it is wet

bentazone is very effective when aplied the morning after a sharp frost dewaxes the weeds

centurion max and Avadex not approved for beans although there is no agronomic reason ,or food or environmentle reason .they have been or are approved in Europe
 

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Crawler when it is cold is effective on grass weeds

pendimethalin will damage beans even pre emergent when it is wet

bentazone is very effective when aplied the morning after a sharp frost dewaxes the weeds

centurion max and Avadex not approved for beans although there is no agronomic reason ,or food or environmentle reason .they have been or are approved in Europe
Forgot avadex
 

nxy

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have applied kerb post-em before. Crop didnt grow again apart from a few very inferior side branches. yield 0.4t/ac compared to 2t/ac untreated. DO NOT DO IT !!

Glyphosate as well. DO NOT DO IT !!!!!!

We are allowed to use Kerb post emergence in France and I've never had a problem.

Just checked and Kerb is only recommended here at two to four leaves never pre emerg.
 
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nxy

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Do you not have anything with either straight Imazamox or a mixture with bentazone in the UK? We use Corum post emergence on beans. A low dose of Nirvana post emergence will knock the beans but (for me at least) didn't seem to affect the yield, I wouldn't recommend it unless essential!
 

czechmate

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Do you not have anything with either straight Imazamox or a mixture with bentazone in the UK? We use Corum post emergence on beans. A low dose of Nirvana post emergence will knock the beans but (for me at least) didn't seem to affect the yield, I wouldn't recommend it unless essential!


For what sort of weeds is the corum Andrew?
 

nxy

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For what sort of weeds is the corum Andrew?
Its good on charlock and volunteer rape and seems to do most other stuff except pansies and thistles. Though we have problems with cow parsley in beans and it only hurts it, never kills the lot. bloody stuff always wraps on the combine reel and knocks the beans out before you can get them.
 

czechmate

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I’ve made an interesting observation.
When I sowed last autum, with expensive bought seed, I didn’t like the look of the headlands (getting wet already) so did oat headlands. Of course, on some runs, I quite went into the oats with beans, the liberator I used on the oats hasn’t touched them :unsure:
 

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my beans have caught the pre-em. Much worse in overlaps. Are they going to be ok? Telling myself just a bit of clomazone bleaching. You can see claydon left a bit of a trench and I think chem could get down to them easily.
 

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