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Growing palladium for the first time this year in Somerset but it is covered in septoria. Extase sown on the same day is looking much cleaner at the moment. Will decide once harvested but favouring extase at the moment.

What chemical options are people using to control black grass in forage maize? Last year I used PDM pre-em and a nicosulfuron post em but poor results. Would dual gold or wing -P alongside PDM be a more robust pre-em option for black grass ? I know they are not cheap!! thanks

It’s like the picture all over the field. Groundsel is Certainly getting worse on our farm, I would just like to get on top of it and not allow another load of seed return.

Thanks that’s good to know. I suppose I could strengthen the tribenuron with metsulfuron like ally max but would have to wait to Feb I believe.

Ok thanks I will have a look. This is our lighter soil would travel after a few drying days, our clay grounds a different story the seed is still in the bag!

I have a lot of groundsel come through my autumn herbicide in winter wheat. Should I be thinking about controlling now or waiting until early spring when warmer? I was thinking either lector (straight florasulam) or cameo (tribenuron) would anyone have any suggestions which may work best...

I have the same problem missed pre ems and our ground has only just dried up enough to travel but we have had a frost last night of -3. Do I risk spraying later today when the frost burns off or would you say that frost wil cause damage if I sprayed today? tonight is not forecasted a frost

After a bit of advice please seeing as there’s a lot of knowledgable people on this thread… i chickened out of putting a pre em on my winter barley as it is sand ground and with heavy rain forecast I was worried about it washing down the profile to the seed I was going with 4l crystal + 50g...

I think I have found that setting in the manual after some Sunday reading will have a play with the screen tomorrow. Thanks 👍🏻

The reason I want to spray stationary not using the jump start is because Im not getting on with the jump start button when spraying around an obstacle. When I reverse upto a telegraph pole I can’t use the jumpstart as the vehicle direction on the screen is in reverse so it won’t allow the jump...

Yes that’s right I can use the jump start button and flush control to wash out stationary. But at the moment the sprayer will only start spraying when travelling at 0.6k was wondering if there was a setting to do away with this so it starts spraying as soon as the master switch is on instead of...

Hi I’m running a cfx750 and field iq on my self propelled sprayer which is running section control and rate controller. is there a setting in the screen to allow me to spray when stationary at the moment It will only spray when moving forward at 0.6k. Is there a setting to allow the sprayer...

Thanks for all your reply’s very useful. Sounds like the buying group option is going to be the simplest way forward for my situation 👍🏻

Hi I am planning on walking my own crops next year moving away from a serviced agronomist. I have my basis and a member of NIAB but interested where others doing there own agronomy buy there sprays ? Is it worth me joining a buying group such as crop advisors and let them do the chasing round...

Hi Could anyone shed some light on what May have caused this problem please? Graham winter wheat following a year grass break from cereals and have a lot of these black heads. The grains inside these ears are tiny and pinched. Seed was new and havnt had a problem in other blocks where the same...