Safeguarding beneficials to control cereal pests
With cereal prices remaining buoyant, it pays to ensure crops are adequately protected against the damage caused by the influx of pests such as...
Act swiftly and safely to protect valuable crops from pest attacks
With rapeseed and cereal prices continuing to remain strong, it will pay to protect crops from pest damage this season.
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...
Look beyond the can to maximise wild oat control
Growers should adopt an integrated approach to wild oat control this spring, with chemical and cultural control methods used in tandem to reduce...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...