Slug control… choosing the most effective bait
While commercial molluscicides are currently limited to just one active ingredient, ferric phosphate, not all slug pellets are created equally,...
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...
How to maximise the efficacy of fungicide programmes with the inclusion of ARIZONA (500g/l folpet)
As a result of the winter’s wet conditions, there’s already a significant amount of disease present in those cereals which were drilled early. If...
Powering up ryegrass control
With ryegrass becoming increasingly problematic due to a developing herbicide resistance issue, growers will need to use cultural and chemical...
Early drilled cereals at higher risk to BYDV infection
With arable growers predicted to favour early drilling this autumn – to avoid wet conditions which prevented a lot of last year’s winter crops...
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...
Power-up black-grass control with a stack of herbicide actives
After last year’s wet autumn wreaked havoc on drilling schedules, a greater percentage of arable growers are predicted to drill early this year....
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...
Late season PGR advice for wheat and barley
With spring now very much in evidence and temperatures on the rise, cereal crops are progressing at speed through their growth stages. The race is...