Weeds

[fjlip]

Tillage is the worst for spreading the evil horsetail, sorry, wrong answer. If in SMF maybe, never had a problem before min till.

[tmyrfield]

If by field horse tail you mean corn spurry roundup doesn't touch it because it has high silicon content. Liberty in liberty link canola does a great job in rotation to keep it in check.

[hobbyfrmr]

Shank hygiene is very important. Clean shanks every field. Plenty of time on hands and knees, hitting head, and scratching back.

We cultivate everything once, harrowpack heavy land and leave the sandy land settle. Wait for weeds to grow, then plant with cultivator/air seeder. Then harrow pack.

Post emergence harrow with tine harrows at least once , sometimes twice. Three times is too much, the crop gets all beat to heck!

[sumdumguy]

If you can't grow weeds, you can't grow a crop. That's how we justified to ourselves the weeds in lentils when we had no chemicals to combat them. Laughable but true. The lentils yielded phenomenally when they climbed up on the buckwheat, but then try to harvest them, we needed sawzalls to unplug the feeder houses. The weed sagas that we laugh about today! Its so easy for you young bucks. All during the eighties, our fire truck followed the combines around the lentil field cause the thistle fuzz would plug the radiator intake and start a fire on the frame on hot days. Those were weeds. There was no such thing as Rounding up our fields in the fall.

[Ache4Acres]

Hmmm now with Trudeau leading the way...I thought we all are supposed to be growing weed!!

[tweety]

Field horsetail sends its tubers down a meter so even a cultivator is not the answer. Its 300 million years old, for very good reason.

[sawfly]

learning to live with it.

if paraquat kills it i will believe it when i see it. (open to trying it)

i just keep hitting it with Rdp.
trying to make super resistant horsetail.
on the plus side it holds the peas up and keeps the land from blowing.
as it grows on the worst of the worst
sand.

i was surprised to see it grown as a hedge. in front of ocean front beach homes in Los.Ang. about 5 ft. high in pure beach sand

[pourfarmer]

Hobby, no rod weeder after seeding?

Curious if you post emerge harrow all your crops? We've had success with wheat and barley, too scared to try oats.

How are you liking the lemken?

[samhill]

dont know price on paraquat, double dose diquat might be effective and cheaper?

[hobbyfrmr]

Pour,

I forgot about the rodweeder! Hows that for assertive farming! I harrow pack sand then yes, rodweeder after planing cereal on heavy land. The rodweeder is no good in sand it just plows it. Then post emerged cereals get smashed in the face with harrows . Its a crap shoot with harrowing. Its a last minute decision for oats.
The Lemken is a sweet machine. One neighbor called and complimented on the finish.
It is no good in hemp stubble. You cant "roll" anything over hemp stubble it wraps on the bearing seals and then the fancy language come out.

[hobbyfrmr]

Pourfarmer,

I am not so sure what will happen in a 5 foot tall seeet clover field.
The Lemken pulls heavy. I underestimated the draft. I boosted a tractor to 400 hp and it pulls 2.5 inches deep at 8mph . I figured I would go slower, no big deal but so far as recommended faster does a better job of throwing soil and plants into a mix.
I will have to go slower at plowdown to bury more plant. I am pretty sure a bigger newer tractor would help things. Maybe next year if I can break even.

[farmaholic]

Hobby, you could buy that tractor if you quit wasting so much money on the wife and kids, get your priorities straight man!!!!!