Maximising sugar beet weed control with post-emergence treatments
For sugar beet crops which didn’t receive a pre-emergence herbicide treatment – either due to the wet conditions which have prevented travelling,...
A new cropping cycle, another set of new challenges
As happens so often in farming, the start of the new cropping cycle has been dominated by unprecedented issues for all those involved in...
Power-up disease control to protect cereal returns
Despite a recent dip in cereal prices, the value of 2023’s harvest is predicted to remain relatively buoyant compared to previous years. It will...
T2… the critical wheat protection timing
A year is a long time in arable farming, but we seem to be light years away from where we were this time last year when deluge after deluge not...
Pellet application… preparation is key
To ensure slug pellets are applied accurately and to achieve the optimum number of baiting points (45 pellets per m2 when applied at 5kg/ha), all...
MAXENTIS® - Simple, flexible and effective disease control this spring
This season, make disease control easier with MAXENTIS, the versatile, two-in-one fungicide designed to fit seamlessly into your spray programme....
Optimising ramularia control at T2 in spring barley
T2 treatments on spring-sown barley crops must be robust and well-timed to keep rapidly developing crops clean and green.
A wet start... a round up from our Senior Agronomy Managers
Well, it’s certainly been a wet winter for most growers. In fact, the UK has experienced its 11th wettest winter since records began in 1836.
Slug watch… getting ready for action
With Autumn on the horizon, our attention turns to minimising the impact that slug damage can have on young crops.
Unseasonably warm weather prompts cereal aphid warning
With soaring October temperatures prompting new migrations of cereal aphids, there’s an increased risk of new crops being exposed to Barley Yellow...