nashmach
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We graze our covers so it's recycled back into the ground quicker
Have you sheep or weanlings on it Marco?
We graze our covers so it's recycled back into the ground quicker
Used to be sheep, now usually run weanling heifers over itHave you sheep or weanlings on it Marco?
SavageSown mid august mix of phacelia tillage radish linseed and Berseem clover
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I don't know about the Cons, but spraying now does give you chance to re-hit anything you fail to kill the first time.What are the cons of spraying off a cover crop and direct drilling spring beans as opposed to drilling on the green and spraying with roundup Post sowing but obviously pre emergence. I'm familiar with direct direct drilling beans but not into cover crops. The the crop doesn't have a massive biomass but is still something. View attachment 102176
The pre emergence herbicide will probably not make enough contact with the clay and you could end up with poor weed control which is a mess in beans in a wet year.
What sort of drill have you access to? A tine drill like a Clayton could make a right mess with that amount of foliage.
My opinion would be spray off now and use D50 aswell as glyphosate and direct drill then if that’s the route you want to go down. I’ve seen the Claydon balling the foliage up, the legs kept coming out of the ground then and it was not a great success but then again I’m fussy.Yes calydon. Yes, I'm worried a claydon would make a mess with this foilage. I think I will spray off ASAP and give it as long as possible for the cover crop to disintegrate. Do you think this would allow for direct drilling and good pre emergence herbicide application or should I just plough and sow conventional.
Seen that with a sumo aswell, disasterMy opinion would be spray off now and use D50 aswell as glyphosate and direct drill then if that’s the route you want to go down. I’ve seen the Claydon balling the foliage up, the legs kept coming out of the ground then and it was not a great success but then again I’m fussy.
If winter beans are planted at a depth necessary to keep them away from crows the seedling wasn't living on the nutrients in the seed by the time it emerged. Maybe he sprayed them on a windy day.I have seen pictures of emerged winter beans sprayed with Roundup and it did them no harm.
My reading of it is Roundup kills the bacteria fungi etc at the growing point of the roots thus killing the plant. The beans were probably still living out of the nutrients in the bean so were not killed . The pros of sowing on the green and waiting is that you will have the ultimate stale seedbed. The cons is that all the I told you so pre emerge Agronomist will be laughing at you if it goes wrong . Have you access to a drill that can sow into a cover without making cocks of cover crop .