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This is particularly important in fields where sterile brome, wild oats, blackgrass or other grass weeds are present.
Soil should be thrown into the air during cultivation to break dormancy.
Stubble destined for spring crops should be planted to a catch crop mix.
Avoid species that add to disease risk in local commercial crops or ones that can be infected with BYDV.
It makes little sense to leave volunteer cereals on land all winter when one of our big current threats is BYDV. Leaving volunteers helps to ensure infection and this becomes a threat to all cereals in the following year.
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