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How to manage high black-grass dormancy

Assessment of a high number of black-grass seed samples shed this summer and collected from winter cereals has shown that dormancy is high at 24 per cent germination.

Alice Dyer

24 August 2020 鈥� 2 min read

Assessment of a high number of black-grass seed samples shed this summer and collected from winter cereals has shown that dormancy is high at 24 per cent germination. This is down to weather conditions...

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