Clomazone Stewardship
Clomazone as an active ingredient, is active at very low dose rates and therefore it is important to take care when spraying any clomazone...
Pre-emergence herbicides boost sugar beet yields
With post-emergence herbicides for sugar beet few and far between, metamitron and quinmerac-based pre-emergence applications will be crucial this...
Pellet application… timing is critical
To maximise molluscicide efficacy, slug pellets should be applied when weather conditions are favourable, and only after slug populations have...
Go-ahead farmers seek out high quality advice
CropTec 2016 proved particularly timely this year, living up to its rapidly growing reputation as the knowledge exchange event for progressive...
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,...
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...
Powering up pre-emergence weed control in winter wheat
With the winter wheat drilling window looming large on the horizon – but hopefully still at least a few weeks away for those growers with a severe...
FOLPET: the ideal T0 fungicide
Treatments at the T0 timing in wheat are usually driven by the need to control outbreaks of yellow rust. However, in high-risk disease scenarios...
New Pre-em herbicide treatments boost sugar beet yields
With sugar beet growers facing their first full season without desmedipham, 2021 could be the year in which the sector witnesses a resurgence in...
T1: the key timing for wheat disease control
With the T1 spray timing for wheat looming large on the horizon, it’s the ideal time to discuss how best to minimise the impact that diseases such...