Machinery hygiene at harvest
The potential of combines or indeed other machinery to spread weeds is now a serious concern for most farmers as grass weeds such as blackgrass, canary grass and wild oats can be easily spread and this is more worrying when these weeds may be herbicide resistant. Dermot Forristal and Brendan Bourke joined Michael Hennessy on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast to discuss machinery hygiene at harvest. Dermot explained that a large combine can cover over 900 hectares over the season which could be as much as 70 average size fields. Each of these fields will have different weed burdens and the…
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