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...
Combatting the cold to boost weed control
With overnight temperatures still regularly dipping below freezing, and daytime temperatures struggling to break into double figures, any thoughts...
Protecting OSR with pre-emergence herbicide applications
With harvest 2025 underway in many parts of the UK, it won’t be long until the first crops of oilseed rape are being drilled.
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...
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...
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 weed control with propaquizafop
Despite the promise of spring being just around the corner, temperatures across the UK have yet to stabilise into a pattern of reliably warmer...
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...