For Cheshire farmer Mike Jones, tackling grass-weeds has not come from one silver bullet solution. Instead, it has been the result of building a more flexible mixed farming system where livestock, forage crops, cultivation strategy and innovative new chemistry all work together
Findings and insights from trials designed to inform BYDV and ryegrass control and improve nitrogen management were shared at the recent Strategic 51AVÊÓÆµEast results day
A focus on min-till cultivations, alongside hosting on-farm herbicide trials, is helping Essex grower Matthew Bunting manage weed burdens on his family’s arable enterprise
Growers are being urged to follow stewardship guidelines following the first confirmed case of field resistance to the herbicide in the UK
On farms with grass-weed problems, these can be the most difficult days of the autumn drilling campaign, the days spent waiting to start