Quality counts… choosing the right slug bait
While commercial molluscicides are currently limited to just one active ingredient, ferric phosphate, not all slug pellets are created equally,...
Controlling volunteers in OSR
Controlling cereal volunteers in oilseed rape is an ongoing challenge in most rotations, especially in situations when drilling is delayed: their...
Combat cereal weeds with class-leading pendimethalin
As grassweeds and broad-leaved weeds become more prevalent and harder to control (in part due to increased levels of resistance to many of the...
Strong T2 treatments needed to control increasing septoria risk
Reports are coming in thick and fast from across the UK of significant levels of disease in wheat crops, with septoria lesions rapidly building in...
Tackling ryegrass
With an increasing number of growers and agronomists reporting difficulties in terms of controlling rye-grass infestations, we look at the current...
Brome control in OSR
If you’ve read our recent blog on how to control brome in cereals, you’ll know that what was once a weed confined to headlands and field margins...
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...
Harvest Predictions 2024 - North East England
There’s certainly more black-grass present this season compared to previous years, largely due to the season’s tricky conditions which have also...
Wild oat control in cereals
Wild oats are one of the UK’s most competitive grassweeds, with just 1 plant/m2 capable of reducing cereal yields by as much as 1%.
Beating brome with a barrage of herbicide actives
With brome infestations becoming more widespread, and ALS resistance confirmed in UK populations, cereal growers will need to use an array of...