Safeguarding beneficials to control late season OSR pests
Although the value of current oilseed rape crops has fallen in recent months, it still pays to ensure crop yield and quality is properly protected...
MAVRIK: Safeguarding beneficials whilst controlling grain aphids
With temperatures rising across the UK, so too is the threat posed to cereal crops by pests such as grain aphids. Regular crop inspections will...
Powering up pre-emergence weed control with pendimethalin
With winter wheat drilling expected to get underway in the next few weeks, now is the ideal time to plan an effective pre-emergence weed control...
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,...
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...
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...
Protecting OSR with pre-emergence herbicide applications
Pre-emergence herbicide applications are still the most effective way of getting weed control off to the best possible start in new oilseed rape...
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%.
Powering-Up Slug Control: Pellet Timing and Baiting Point Density are Critical
With OSR crops emerging, cereal drilling underway and slug activity starting to increase following the arrival of some much needed rain, this week...