Pellet palatability promotes persistent performance
While commercial molluscicides are currently limited to just one active ingredient, ferric phosphate, not all slug pellets are created equally,...
Mind the gap: use a pre-emergence herbicide to let OSR steal a march on early season weeds
With rapeseed prices remaining high – at least in the short to medium term – it will pay growers who are intending to drill a crop (if and when...
Powering up slug control: pellet timing and baiting point density are critical
To maximise the efficacy of molluscicides, slug pellets should only be applied when pest populations have reached threshold, and only when weather...
Spring is in the air… time to ‘Power-Up’ your crop protection
With temperatures tentatively climbing and crops, weeds and diseases starting to wake from their winter slumber, we are once again launching our...
Boosting ramularia control with ARIZONA at T2
With the weather finally starting to improve in most parts of the UK, our attention turns to controlling ramularia in those crops of winter sown...
MAVRIK: Safeguarding beneficials whilst controlling grain aphids
With temperatures rising across the UK, so too is the threat posed to cereal crops by pests such as grain aphids. Regular crop inspections will...
In memory of Dan
We are all shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic loss our friend and colleague, Dan Macdonald, who died in an accident at the end of August...
ADAMA opens new chloralkali facility to keep up with global folpet demand
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions, a global leader in the production and supply of crop protection products, has announced the official opening of a...
Harvest Predictions 2024 - Scotland
Scotland still enjoys the enviable position that black-grass still doesn’t pose a significant risk. It is present on a few farms, but it is still...
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...