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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

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...

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...

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...

Hi I have recently purchased a new to me sprayer which has Trimble CFX-750 screen running section control and EZ steering through an AG25 receiver. Currently it is running on the free EGNOS signal. I would be interested to hear others opinions, would the EGNOS signal be good/accurate enough...

I’m looking to buy a Bateman RB16. Some seem to have the prime/purge spray boom recirculation fitted but others don’t. Would people advise only to buy one with the recirculation system or do people manage fine without? thanks in advance

Hi Is anyone running a 8 row mounted amazone ED 6000-2c maize drill. Just wondering what size tractor you are using? Looking at putting it on a JD 6155r, is this likely to be a heavy enough tractor to handle the weight of the drill full?

Hi all Spreading nitram at 30 m I have noticed striping. I have 2-3 metres dark green between the tramlines suggesting it’s throwing to far. At first I thought it was the sloped fields but now noticing it on flat fields aswell. Annoyingly had it Tray tested before the season which looked good...

Is there a way of telling on nitram bags which factory (billington or Inse ) it has come from ? Thanks

Been recommended the use of iodus (Laminarin active) at T0 for septoria protection based in south west so high disease pressure. Are many others planning on using these bio-fungicides at T0 to replace CTL, with folpet not looking like a cost effective choice. Dont see these bio-fungicides...

For those of you not fortunate to have full spray line circulation, has anyone converted there spray line end caps to either a ball valve tap or anything else to make cleaning built up residual in the end caps easier? I have 8 end caps on my sprayer which are held on by metal forks but are a bit...

Hi All, I use a john deere trailed sprayer at work which is a M7401with 30 metre booms. Sprayer has auto shutoff. I am experiencing overdosing in parts of the fields which on a few occasions has killed the crop. The overdosing is not on the overlaps with the headlands, it is in the landwork...