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Download PDF Every spray droplet counts when it comes to blackgrass control. CPM investigates the effect of application on post-emergence herbicide performance. Bumps make booms wobble. By Lucy de la Pasture Growers with blackgrass need no reminder that it’s a costly problem to battle with. No one measure will stop it advancing but efforts on many fronts each make incremental gains. With that in mind, making the most of blackgrass herbicides means squeezing every drop of activity out of them. It’s not just herbicide efficacy that matters, application is just as important, explains Life Scientific UK technical manager, Ruth Stanley. The Dublin-based company brings products to market rapidly when they become off-patent because of its ability to reverse-engineer, a process which pulls apart the formulation of reference products and recreates an identical version. “Although our aim is to bring off-patent products to the market as quickly as possible, we also want to help growers get the most out of them in the field,” she says. “Blackgrass control is known to be application sensitive and we felt that not enough application work had been carried out for the Cintac and Niantic (mesosulfuron+ iodosulfuron-methyl) reference products (Pacifica and Atlantis),…
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