dede2002 wrote:
Indeed it seems that it is "commonplace" to apply glyphosate with each wheat seedlings,
Let's stay factual to remain credible:
- this involves the destruction of existing plant cover, before sowing the wheat (or, if necessary, at the same time: direct sowing with work on the line only - strip till - and inter-row treatment, with the destroyed plant hatch which remains in place ...)
- in this case, in fact, glyphosate is in common use to destroy this cover, in particular in the case of alfalfa or well-rooted clovers ... (but this is also done with other "green manures", used as "nitrate traps")
- this goes hand in hand with practices aimed at reducing tillage and / or leaving plant cover during the winter period, see under the sown crop
- it goes without saying that in a bare plot, plowed and prepared "classically" (autumn / winter plowing; resumption in spring with a cultivation train combining cultivator or rotary harrow + seeder) we will not treat the bare soil. ..
The file therefore presents a possibility. It is not systematic.