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Download PDF Two years of trials have persuaded a Suffolk farm manager that the Conviso Smart system has a fit on his farm. CPM finds out why. Our problem weed is fat-hen and it’s difficult to control. By Lucy de la Pasture The introduction of ALS herbicide resistant sugar beet has had its critics and Suffolk farm manager for Geo E. Gittus & Sons, Stephen Brummit, was one of those with reservations, he admits. Now in his third year with the Conviso Smart sugar beet system it’s fair to say that Steven’s opinion has changed. Initially he was approached by KWS to sow 10ha of a Conviso variety as part of a network of four demonstration growers – one for each factory area. Stephen says it was an opportunity to test the new system in a few fields with a high weed burden. “I was sceptical,” he says. “The claims being made as to its potential looked to be a little too good to believe and it seemed expensive.” For some growers, the Conviso Smart system offers a solution to a non-existent problem. Either they don’t have a weed beet infestation in need of taming, or the weed control being…
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Download PDF Two years of trials have persuaded a Suffolk farm manager that the Conviso Smart system has a fit on his farm. CPM finds out why. Our problem weed is fat-hen and it’s difficult to control. By Lucy de la Pasture The introduction of ALS herbicide resistant sugar beet has had its critics and Suffolk farm manager for Geo E. Gittus & Sons, Stephen Brummit, was one of those with reservations, he admits. Now in his third year with the Conviso Smart sugar beet system it’s fair to say that Steven’s opinion has changed. Initially he was approached by KWS to sow 10ha of a Conviso variety as part of a network of four demonstration growers – one for each factory area. Stephen says it was an opportunity to test the new system in a few fields with a high weed burden. “I was sceptical,” he says. “The claims being made as to its potential looked to be a little too good to believe and it seemed expensive.” For some growers, the Conviso Smart system offers a solution to a non-existent problem. Either they don’t have a weed beet infestation in need of taming, or the weed control being…
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