Curious - what do you think is going on here

I know a field similar around here, I think it also might have grown barley last summer, it was sown late, and harvested very late.

 

I think it's probably natural die-back and all the rain has quickened the process. A crop field will have few weeds if any and the planting is annual of course. It'll probably be ploughed in a few weeks.

 

It's part of the course to spray off weeds/previous crops before plowing and planting, but it must have been something hectic to have knocked it off at this time of year? Thought Gromoxone was banned now?

 

Surely they would have had to put up advance planning notices FC?
Jenny

 

As JWK and Zigs says , If it was combine late and wasn't fit you can get lots of seed out the back of the combine and then it regrows, if you grow Barley then Wheat you have to be carefull not to mix the crops because anything above 2% add mix you then start to get reduce prices, so they spray off any weeds and last years crops, start clean

 

It is - only in EU though I think, so Spuds you buy, if grown abroad, might well have been treated with Gramoxone to dessicate the haulms before harvest which, speaking for myself, I think is a worry. (We are growing main crop spuds this year, for first time in many years, to avoid that worry; for me main crop are: lot of space, hard to store as many start sprouting soon after Xmas, higher risk of blight)

I suspect that some other type of desiccating chemical has been used (at this time of the year, rather than Glyphosate) and just to clean the field before spring cultivations - although round here, on heavy land, they would have done everything they could to cultivate in the Autumn and avoid being on the land in winter. They may have sprayed it with flotation tyres - maybe even a quad bike - but getting on heavy land here with a plough / chisel anytime from now onwards, particularly given how wet this winter has been, won't do the soil structure any favours.

Crawler tractor might be ok perhaps?