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Download PDF For more than two decades, Agrii’s trial site at Stow Longa has helped define an integrated approach to controlling blackgrass. CPM visits the team to analyse the key lessons learned. We do everything at Stow Longa with an open mind. By Tom Allen-Stevens The opportunity for a personalised tour of Agrii’s trials site at Stow Longa, Cambs, just at the time the blackgrass is coming into ear and waving its head above the crop, is one not to be missed. But turning up in some of the heaviest rain seen for months, it’s clear a tour of the plots is not going to happen. Instead, it’s a dash to the on-site Portacabin, there to be greeted by Colin Lloyd, Steve Corbett and David Felce, who are already tucking into the tea and biscuits. Joining them, you soon realise the real value in the trials is not just the plots themselves but the 21 years of history, of experience and of the wealth of data they’ve yielded. “When we first started here in 2000, it was a with tiny trial of just 30 plots looking at different mainly herbicide-based blackgrass strategies,” recalls Colin. “Thankfully, the Whitlock family have allowed…
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Download PDF For more than two decades, Agrii’s trial site at Stow Longa has helped define an integrated approach to controlling blackgrass. CPM visits the team to analyse the key lessons learned. We do everything at Stow Longa with an open mind. By Tom Allen-Stevens The opportunity for a personalised tour of Agrii’s trials site at Stow Longa, Cambs, just at the time the blackgrass is coming into ear and waving its head above the crop, is one not to be missed. But turning up in some of the heaviest rain seen for months, it’s clear a tour of the plots is not going to happen. Instead, it’s a dash to the on-site Portacabin, there to be greeted by Colin Lloyd, Steve Corbett and David Felce, who are already tucking into the tea and biscuits. Joining them, you soon realise the real value in the trials is not just the plots themselves but the 21 years of history, of experience and of the wealth of data they’ve yielded. “When we first started here in 2000, it was a with tiny trial of just 30 plots looking at different mainly herbicide-based blackgrass strategies,” recalls Colin. “Thankfully, the Whitlock family have allowed…
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