Maximising spring barley protection at T2
With the warmer weather helping crops to progress rapidly through their growth stages, spring barleys are quickly approaching the T2 window – a...
Powering-Up with propaquizafop
Although spring is moving rapidly towards us, temperatures across the UK have remained fairly volatile in recent weeks, with spells of relatively...
Safeguarding beneficials to control seed weevils in OSR
With oilseed rape prices close to £800/t, it pays to ensure crops are adequately protected from insect damage. One way to safeguard against pests...
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...
Pellet application… timing is critical
To maximise molluscicide efficacy, slug pellets should be applied when weather conditions are favourable, and only after slug populations have...
Power-up disease control to protect cereal returns
Despite a recent dip in cereal prices, the value of 2023’s harvest is predicted to remain relatively buoyant compared to previous years. It will...
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...
Crowd control in OSR
Volunteer cereals present a significant problem in many crops, but are particularly troublesome when oilseed rape drilling is delayed: their large...
T2: the optimum time to protect against ramularia
Even though conditions have remained largely dry in recent weeks, and the majority of winter barley crops look relatively clean, it is still...
Quality counts… choosing the right slug bait
While commercial molluscicides are currently limited to just one active ingredient, ferric phosphate, not all slug pellets are created equally,...