{"id":5232,"date":"2023-11-28T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nufarm.com\/nz\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2024-12-05T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T02:20:37","slug":"forage-herbs-chicory-plantain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/2023\/11\/28\/forage-herbs-chicory-plantain\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Use of Chicory and Plantain in Farming Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicory<\/u><\/strong> is an effective forage for finishing young stock within sheep and beef farming systems and in a dairy system to improve overall energy intake throughout the spring\/summer months.<\/p>\n

Plantain<\/u><\/strong> can also be used as a sole forage but is mainly sown with clover also as a 2-year forage crop. Ecotain\u00ae<\/strong><\/a> is a plantain species that is often mixed within dairy ryegrass and clover mixes to mitigate against N leaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herbicide use over forage herbs is limited, as we can only use specific herbicides such as Valdo 800WG<\/strong><\/a>, combined with Bonza Gold<\/strong> <\/a> on chicory (and clover mixes), with Dictate 480<\/strong><\/a> specifically used over plantain swards and pastures containing plantain. For specialist crops, where one of these herbs is grown with or without clover SeQuence<\/strong><\/a> is a great option for grass weed control and Kaiso 50WG<\/strong><\/a> is very popular option for Cutworm or Plantain Moth.<\/p>\n

Dictate 480<\/strong><\/a> requires high water rates (of 300-500L\/ha). Use of a quality adjuvant such as Contact Xcel<\/strong><\/a> when applying Dictate 480 ensures adequate coverage and improves efficacy of the product, talk to your local TM for more info in this space.<\/p>\n

Timing is also very important when applying herbicides to chicory and plantain. We need to apply to weeds when they are at the 2-4 leaf stage if we want adequate control. Leaving the weeds to get bigger often reduces efficacy and doesn\u2019t meet farmers expectations.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Paul Greenbank – Territory Manger for Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa
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Chicory is an effective forage for finishing young stock within sheep and beef farming systems and in a dairy system to improve overall energy intake throughout the spring\/summer months. Plantain can also be used as a sole forage but is mainly sown with clover also as a 2-year forage crop. Ecotain\u00ae is a plantain species that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":5242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6232,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/6232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.nufarm.com.au\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}