Cultural tactics and accurate spraying essential for effective wild oat control
Growers throughout the UK must adopt a range of chemical and non-chemical strategies to protect cereals from the increasingly problematic threat...
Saddle Gall Midge Warning
Growers in hotspots known to be susceptible to saddle gall midge infestations should be on the lookout for the first emergences over the coming...
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.
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...
Powering up slug control: the importance of mould resistance
While commercial molluscicides are currently limited to just one active ingredient, ferric phosphate, not all slug pellets are created equally,...
Pellet application… calibration is crucial
To ensure slug pellets are applied accurately and to achieve the optimum number of baiting points (40-50 pellets per m2), all spreading equipment...
Powering up slug control…get ready for battle
There’s no getting away from the fact that the wet winter, soggy spring and unsettled summer conditions have allowed slug populations to boom in...
Unique PTZ formulation enhances cereal disease control
The unique formulation of ADAMA’s prothioconazole based fungicides delivers improved control of a range of stem-base, foliar and ear diseases...
Effective weed control gives sugar beet a head start
A sequenced herbicide programme which includes a range of different active ingredients is the best strategy when it comes to reducing weed...
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...