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Download PDF Experience has shaped a multi-tool blackgrass strategy at Troston Farms in Suffolk, with crop productivity the key priority. CPM visits to find out how it’s developed and what part new chemistry will play. Yield is king. Compromise that and you increase cost of production. By Tom Allen-Stevens You can see to a line where the Skyscraper winter wheat stops and the spring-sown Mulika starts. But it’s a job to tell which one looks the better crop. “We drilled as much as we could late in the autumn, but in the end, I asked myself whether it was worth mauling in a winter wheat in late November and lost my nerve. We pulled the stumps and decided to come back in the spring,” says Edward Vipond. We’re standing in his “failure field”, one he knows is bad for blackgrass. It’s been the site of bruising lessons that have helped shape a strategy against the grassweed across the 1500ha Troston Farms Edward manages near Bury St Edmunds, owned by the Claas family. This year, as well as the two-tone wheat, there’s a tramline in the same field that’s received a pre-emergence dose of Luximo (cinmethylin), the new blackgrass herbicide from…
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Download PDF Experience has shaped a multi-tool blackgrass strategy at Troston Farms in Suffolk, with crop productivity the key priority. CPM visits to find out how it’s developed and what part new chemistry will play. Yield is king. Compromise that and you increase cost of production. By Tom Allen-Stevens You can see to a line where the Skyscraper winter wheat stops and the spring-sown Mulika starts. But it’s a job to tell which one looks the better crop. “We drilled as much as we could late in the autumn, but in the end, I asked myself whether it was worth mauling in a winter wheat in late November and lost my nerve. We pulled the stumps and decided to come back in the spring,” says Edward Vipond. We’re standing in his “failure field”, one he knows is bad for blackgrass. It’s been the site of bruising lessons that have helped shape a strategy against the grassweed across the 1500ha Troston Farms Edward manages near Bury St Edmunds, owned by the Claas family. This year, as well as the two-tone wheat, there’s a tramline in the same field that’s received a pre-emergence dose of Luximo (cinmethylin), the new blackgrass herbicide from…
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