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Download PDF It’s time to look elsewhere as the EU Commission finally calls time on diquat. CPM finds out how contact pre-emergence weed control strategies may adapt. This must be the year to actively try new systems. By Lucy de la Pasture and Rob Jones For most UK potato growers and their advisers, including Monmouthshire-based agronomist Juliet Anderson, there was probably a sense of déjà vu following last Oct’s announcement confirming diquat wouldn’t be renewed. “It seems to have been an open industry secret for the past two years that diquat would go the same way as paraquat and linuron, so now that we have closure, we can at least move on to look at alternative strategies for early weed control and address the potentially bigger headache of desiccation without diquat,” she says. Timing of pre-emergence contact herbicides will need to be more focused to avoid causing crop damage. With just over 20 years’ field experience as an agronomist, Juliet advises on 600ha of potatoes across Herefords and Glos, most of which are destined for the crisping and chipping markets. It’s a very challenging geographical area, where much of the rented land for potato production is sourced from livestock farmers,…
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