Seeded acres?

[boarderbloke]

ry0972, how do you manage your chemfallow? will you spray all through the year or will you make one or more tillage operations(perhaps 2" spikes)? Few years back tried chemfallow, first year went with the idea of cutting costs, so only sprayed when growth got over the stuble height or just before anything looked like it might go to seed. That wasn't good because things like buckwheat can grow too large and cause a huge headache the next year with plugging. So tried the next year, sprayed often watching the buckwheat and other weeds down at ground level, never letting things get big. More operations and costs, but no plugging the next year. Problem, TOO WET, potholes everywhere, wouldn't dry out. Land also seemed to be compacted and lacking proper tilth. this on clay loam ground. What operations do you do, on what soil type?

[ry0972]

The last few years we have been heavy harrowing at the same time we are hitting the rest of the farm then once stuff gets growing ( but still small) we hit it with 1/2 to a full liter (depending on grasses) of clear-out or other generic glyphosate.
Then we have been trying to get some use out of our cultivators and working it the rest of the year. This gets rid of buckwheat, NLHB, dandelion and hard to kill grasses. We also run the rock hook and many hours on the rock picker through the year.
Skimming ( field cult if possible)it off late in the fall if there is moisture keeps it very clean long into spring.
We also ran into trouble a few wetter years where the next spring we almost couldn't seed the TRUE chemfallow fields, buried the 9270 with spade grips heavy-harrowing.
With the near $3 glyphosate we bought this spring and the # of acres ( some are canola stubble)we might have to leave I think more spraying with only one maybe two tillage operations.
If we decide to seed some WW or Fall Rye it will be on unworked ground.
Another 1 1/2 -2" today and some flurries this morn!!
No where near as bad off as many but
still not looking very good!!

[boarderbloke]

thanks for the responding, where are you located, roughly?

[ry0972]

Strongfield ,SK, An hour south of S'toon.