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Learning from the successes of growers’ black-grass control programmes gives a raft of integrated cultural and herbicide strategies that can also be used to hit back at increasing ryegrass populations, advises Syngenta Technical Manager, Georgina Wood.

“Key to that success is stacking up as many of those options as is practically possible in a farm situation.”

• Delay drilling
• Adapt cultivations
• Increase spring cropping
• Grow competitive crops
• Prioritise pre-emergence applications
• Stack pre-em herbicides
• Optimise treatment timing and...