Time to check your wild oats
With cereal crops rapidly marching towards maturity, now is the ideal time to identify which (if any) species of wild oats might be contaminating...
Autumn 2023 weed control... A look ahead from ADAMA's agronomy team
With the arable harvest underway – in between the showers, downpours, and thunderstorms – our regional agronomy team share their thoughts for the...
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.
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...
Wild oat control… this season’s hot TOPIK
In addition to the use of cultural controls to reduce wild oat infestations, an appropriate herbicide should be used to spray off the worst...
Tackling wild oats
Wild oats are one of the UK’s most competitive grass weeds, with one plant per square metre holding the potential to reduce winter cereal yields...
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...
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%.
Tackling ryegrass
With an increasing number of growers and agronomists reporting difficulties in terms of controlling rye-grass infestations, we look at the current...
Protecting rye and barley with pre- and post-emergence herbicides
With planning for next season’s cropping options well underway, Bill Lankford, ADAMA’s herbicide technical specialist, explains why the precise...