Fighting back against ALS resistance in sugar beet
With resistance to ALS inhibitor herbicides confirmed in a range of common broad-leaved weeds (in particular poppies, chickweed and, to a lesser...
Keeping sugar beet weed-free at all growth stages
With the sugar beet drilling window only a handful of weeks away, sugar beet growers are busily gearing up for the new cropping cycle. In addition...
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...
Harvest Predictions 2024 - East of England
Black-grass control has been a bit hit and miss in the eastern half of the UK this year. Where pre-emergence and/or post-emergence herbicides were...
Harvest Predictions 2024 - North West England
It has certainly been a challenging year for black-grass control in the west, but where residual herbicides were applied in the autumn, these have...
Harvest Predictions 2024 - West and South of England and Ireland
It has certainly been a challenging year for black-grass control in the west, but where residual herbicides were applied in the autumn, these have...
Another wet start...a round up from our Regional Agronomy Managers
For the second consecutive season, we’re kick starting our spring crop protection blog on the back of another wet winter. Whilst the situation isn...
Taming wild oats with TOPIK
TOPIK (240 g/L clodinafop-propargyl and 60 g/L cloquintocet-mexyl) provides good control of wild oats in cereals and can also be used to control...
Harvest Predictions 2024
With the 2024 harvest rushing towards us at what seems to be an unfeasible pace, we get another in-season update from our regional agronomists and...