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Download PDF Knowing the weaknesses of spring herbicides is as important as knowing their strengths in order to plug the gaps and avoid any nasty surprises. CPM gets some tips from boots on the ground. It’s going to be important to consider product restrictions on sequences. By Lucy de la Pasture Spring 2020 looks like being anything but a normal season, with a big drop in autumn planting, late drilling and little or no residual herbicides applied. Kieran Walsh, agronomist for Velcourt Advisory Services, reckons just 62% of the planned winter wheat area is in the ground on his patch in the Cotswolds and surrounding counties. Winter barley figures are even more depressed, with just 35% of the crop planted. “Around 85% of the wheat received a pre-emergence residual herbicide and where it was applied, we had no crop damage. Getting an even seed depth was tricky last autumn so we were very careful not to go spraying residuals if any rain was forecast in the days following application,” he says. Once the wet weather became entrenched in late autumn, all chances of stacking residual for blackgrass control went out of the window and Kieran confirms none of his crops…
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