Controlling tall weeds and potato volunteers in sugar beet
Sugar beet has now been planted and is starting to grow away. This year the crop is showing a wide range of growth stages from 4 to 5 leaves to emerging plants at cotyledon stage. Sugar beet remains an important crop in the UK...
The first and only UK recommended Clearfield OSR
The UK’s oilseed rape growers have been through a number of significant challenges in recent seasons.
Weather, pest and weed pressure have all played their part in frustrating farmers’ ability to grow consistent, profitable crops.
But...
Blog: Switching herbicide strategies from spring to autumn
There are very good reasons why most farmers schedule broad-leaved weed control applications for the spring.
Warmer weather, more daylight hours and the convenience of tank mixing herbicides are three of them.
But there are...
Adopt good stewardship principles when tackling blackgrass in oilseed rape
Oilseed rape growers are being encouraged to follow water stewardship best practice as the key period for controlling blackgrass begins across the UK.
The application window for AstroKerb® (propyzamide + aminopyralid)...
Weather data at your fingertips to optimise timing of AstroKerb and Kerb
Corteva Agriscience will be providing weather data by postcode on their website and on Farming Online, as they have done in the past, but now with greater ease of access through their popular Arable App. Designed for both...
Cereal growers urged to follow tried and tested herbicide programmes this autumn
Corteva AgriscienceTM says farmers growing winter cereal crops should persevere with early-season herbicide programmes wherever possible as changeable weather hits much of the UK.
The company says skipping a...
Yield-topping PT279CL is leading Clearfield variety again
Pioneer’s PT279CL winter oilseed rape has proven to be the highest yielding Clearfield® variety in independent AHDB Recommended List trails for the second year running.
Provisional harvest data shows that the variety has returned a...
Dow Shield® 400 an essential herbicide for speciality crops
Specialist crop growers have been unfortunate in the last few years as they are denied active ingredients, either as products are revoked or as they go through re-registration and lose crops and uses. But the classic post-emergence...
Controlling tall weeds and potato volunteers in sugar beet
Sugar beet has now been planted and is starting to grow away. This year the crop is showing a wide range of growth stages from 4 to 5 leaves to emerging plants at cotyledon stage. Sugar beet remains an important crop in the UK...
The first and only UK recommended Clearfield OSR
The UK’s oilseed rape growers have been through a number of significant challenges in recent seasons.
Weather, pest and weed pressure have all played their part in frustrating farmers’ ability to grow consistent, profitable crops.
But...
Blog: Switching herbicide strategies from spring to autumn
There are very good reasons why most farmers schedule broad-leaved weed control applications for the spring.
Warmer weather, more daylight hours and the convenience of tank mixing herbicides are three of them.
But there are...
Struggling with controlling groundsel, used Tribenuron last year at 30g/ha, seemed to work best when mixed with tebuconazole, so what adjuvants would have the same characteristics as teb?
Is there anything else that would give more reliable control, don’t want to use Dff as I think it kills soil...
Morning all
Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England.
I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...
Significant upgrades to Corteva Agriscience’s Kerb Weather Data tool will help growers and advisers be even more precise when timing oilseed rape herbicide applications this winter.
The data is relied upon by growers across the UK to identify the best time to apply AstroKerb® or Kerb® Flo 500...
I have 90 hectares of AB15 legume mix to establish immediately after harvest.
I have my seed delivered and waiting in the barn.
Considering the late(ish) harvest and the fact that I am following spring barley, what establishment method should I use?
Written by John Swire
Game cover crops for shooting and wildlife and wild bird seed mixtures need careful management, starting with reducing the weed population which will help their establishment. This can be challenging, as often there are mixtures of different crop types established in the...
Been given a recommendation for week control in spring barley.
75g/ ha counter sx
0.3 l/ha Pixxaro
Seems a heavy dose to me.....just the usual suspects to deal with and not too big atvthr moment. Advice needed. Thanks
Have some of the above to sow
Can use 90% cereal, so we are using oats seeing as we have some.
What rate are people sowing the oats
And do you mix the other seeds with the oats to sow or sow seperate.
Cheers
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