Spring is in the air...RAM spring update
With warmer and drier weather finally making an appearance, and crops poised to start racing through their growth stages, our team of regional...
New Pre-em herbicide treatments boost sugar beet yields
With sugar beet growers facing their first full season without desmedipham, 2021 could be the year in which the sector witnesses a resurgence in...
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...
Protecting OSR with pre-emergence herbicide applications
With time marching quickly onwards, it won’t be many weeks until the first oilseed rape of the new cropping cycle is being drilled.
With...
Harnessing the power of TOWER® to banish brome
Brome has become an increasingly troublesome weed in recent years, largely because it has migrated from headlands towards the centre of fields...
Include CTU to Boost Ryegrass Control
In addition to the well publicised difficulties associated with controlling burgeoning black-grass populations, many growers are also battling...
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...
MAVRIK®: the safer way to control grain aphids
With temperatures rising across the UK, so too is the threat posed to cereal crops by pests such as grain aphids. The Rothamsted insect survey is...
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,...
How can ADAMA's Herbicides Power Up your Black-grass control?
In a trial at NIAB’s Hinxton site in South Cambridgeshire, ADAMA has been looking at ways of powering up black-grass control by boosting herbicide...