I am cross. Last week I was cross. Cross enough to delete all my computer accounts at various sites. This week I am properly cross. My agronomist is paid to walk the fields often, and identify weeds when they are small so they can be delt with. Two fields that looked great and I was assured did not need any spray have erupted this week with wild oats that will have to be rogued. I am going on holiday tomorrow, and I can bet that by the time I am back the weather will have turned and the seed will be on the floor by the time it dries enough to walk the soil.
The point of a vastly reduced tillage system is not so much the reduction in fuel or time. It is the keeping of weed seeds where they will germinate easily, and their slow eradication. if I dont get these rogued, that will mess up several years of good practise. I dont like a scruffy farm, and that is what it is.
Name and address of poorly performing agronomist can be suppiled.
Grump.