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Download PDF Work at Syngenta’s Innovation Centres revolves around gaining a better understanding of the interaction of the natural environment with the management growers apply. CPM gains an insight. The real interest lies in looking at the detail, using a high level of curiosity. By Tom Allen-Stevens Georgina Wood leads the way through the vast network of plots at Syngenta’s Barton Innovation Centre blackgrass demonstration in Cambs. Except they’re not really trial plots but a matrix of different cultivation regimes and cropping that have built up over four years. She stops at one plot and consults the map. Even though it’s close to harvest you can see it suffered a heavy burden of blackgrass. “Over three years, we found the worst blackgrass in areas that had been continuously min-tilled,” she explains. David King believes the Innovation Centres help build an understanding of the complexity of farming real and future challenges. “This last season has been different, however, and the best and worst performers aren’t necessarily what you’d expect. What we’ve learned is that the key to getting the cultivations correct is to understand how the seed is distributed through the soil profile. But it’s a very complex picture.” Barton is…
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