At South Sea Farm, innovative cropping systems and meticulous soil management underpin black-grass control within a farming system designed to optimise productivity and sustainability
Working with host farmer Roger Mills, the Olde Appleton Italian ryegrass trials in Yorkshire provides practical guidance on how to manage an increasingly resistant, prevalent and problematic grass-weed
Growers are advised to use the weeks between harvest and drilling to drive down grass-weed numbers as high populations can rob yield from wheat and other cereals
²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian takes a closer look into the new Broadway Ultra herbicide which will debut on farms this spring
Prolonged rain during winter and spring has caused surge in grassland weeds
Pre-emergence herbicides are just one part of the full weed control programme, so rather than looking for the ‘best’ pre-em, consider choosing what works best for the situation.
²ÝÁñÉçÇø with tricky grass-weeds to control are invited to take part in a new farmer-led project as part of the second year of trials on harvest weed seed control (HWSC).