{"id":2191,"date":"2013-05-12T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:36:32","slug":"dam-rising-damn-sowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/dam-rising-damn-sowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Rising Damn Sowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2181\" alt=\"20130510 006\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-006-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-006-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-006.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The heavy rains have <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/the-shrinking-dam\/\">lifted the level<\/a>\u00a0in the dam quite considerably and the creek is flowing already. \u00a0This is over a month <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/winter-rains\/\">earlier than last year<\/a>\u00a0and of course will affect the sowing of our oaten hay crop.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to sow later, as <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/sowing-the-seeds\/\">last year<\/a> the second paddock&#8217;s seeding didn&#8217;t get rain or germinate for about 3 weeks, it was badly affected by weeds and didn&#8217;t grow as well. \u00a0 It was also a juggling act to decide when to harvest and we were caught out by rains when <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/125-bales\/\">baling in October<\/a>, so by sowing later we could move harvest to November which is likely to be drier.<\/p>\n<p>The rain has spurred on a thick layer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agric.wa.gov.au\/PC_93454.html\" target=\"_blank\">capeweed<\/a>, so we had to spray a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glyphosate\" target=\"_blank\">Glyphosate <\/a>herbicide today so we can get the harrows through the ground to prepare the seed bed. \u00a0Last year we sowed before the capeweed germinated and used the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/chemical-warfare\/\">lower toxicity selective herbicide\u00a0Chlorsulfuron<\/a> after the oats had sprouted. \u00a0 UWA have just published a statement about\u00a0glyphosate-resistant weed populations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahri.uwa.edu.au\/news\/General\/How-to-break-glyphosate\">http:\/\/www.ahri.uwa.edu.au\/news\/General\/How-to-break-glyphosate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy rains have lifted the level\u00a0in the dam quite considerably and the creek is flowing already. \u00a0This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-006.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}