Spray or till wheat stubble for weeds?

Nick m

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Weeds in my wheat stubble are coming on strong. Not just one particular weed, but a little of everything. I was planning on chisel plowing it in the next week or 2 to mess up the weeds and get a head start on fall tillage. A neighbor is strongly urging me to have it sprayed with 24d and round up first, then chisel it later on. Is he on to something? I figured chiseling it would be good enough. He has about 30yrs more experience than me though. Some of the weeds are starting to flower, so I need to do something soon. Thanks
 
Normally here in NEIL if it's not planted to double crop beans it is sprayed then worked later near fall. Myself, I would spray it and work later.
 
I have the same problem, weeds firing up after harvest , I figure on just spraying with round up. this way we will have a clean start for next year(no till beans),also since my land is stoney,I wont be bring stones up with tillage
 
I don't know where you are located but around here it would be risky to spray 2-4d due to drift into other sensitive crops like cotton and soybeans. Alot of people spray gramoxone (paraquat) for that reason. Just something to think about.
 
If you are not going to plant until late spring then I would just spray with RU and leave the stubble . That will hold the winter moisture. Then next summer no til the beans in with simultaneous RU spray again, Save all the moisture you can. That's a total of two passes. Then one more spray and combine.
 
I have the same conditions after taking the wheat off. Straw was not worth taking so I had it blown back on the field. I have some straw clumps but was told I could no- till into this.As for the regrowth and weeds I will no-till the beans in the spring and hit it with Roundup when the beans emerge. Does this sound right or am I way off
 
I would spray it and no-till, but the trouble with that is the weeds are becoming resistant to roundup in the Central KS area I live in. People here are spraying the weeds and the weeds start to die. We get a shower and they green right back up. We were noticing that a couple of years ago when I quit farming, but it is getting worse. Some of the folks in Central KS are getting their tillage eqt back out. Seems to be a resurgence of V Blades coming out of the weeds. Main thing is if the spray isn't getting pig weeds, mares tail, etc and they come on, you hate to see them going to seed in your fields.
Hard choice to make. Spray is the easiest, if it will kill them. As said, the stubble will hold the ground during the winter winds as well as hold the moisture. Good luck with either you choose. Bob
 

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