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.
Protecting OSR with pre-emergence herbicide applications
Pre-emergence herbicide applications are still the most effective way of getting weed control off to the best possible start in new oilseed rape...
Multiple herbicide actives required to power-up brome control
With brome infestations becoming more widespread, and ALS resistance confirmed in UK populations, cereal growers will need to use a selection of...
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,...
Powering-Up with propaquizafop
Although spring is moving rapidly towards us, temperatures across the UK have remained fairly volatile in recent weeks, with spells of relatively...
Tackling ryegrass
With an increasing number of growers and agronomists reporting difficulties in terms of controlling rye-grass infestations, we look at the current...
Crowd control in OSR
Volunteer cereals present a significant problem in many crops, but are particularly troublesome when oilseed rape drilling is delayed: their large...
Throwing the kitchen sink at OSR weed control
With the forward rapeseed market showing little, if any, sign of decline, once crops have the weather conditions to enable establishment, they are...
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...
Cultural tactics and accurate spraying vital against wild oats
Wild oats, of which there are two species, are one of the most competitive grass weeds, with just one plant per square metre able to reduce winter...