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Some wheat crops are carrying larger weed burdens than normal, and growers are being advised to tackle them as soon as conditions allow to protect crop

According to Teagasc, weed control in crops – including winter barley, wheat and oilseed rape - are now important.

Wet is now making further planting tricky 2022-10-26

Herbicide sensitivity across the spectrum of grass weeds 2022-09-28

Farmer Writes: last years nitrogen proving a good buy 2022-05-11

Septoria and yellow rust can be found in some wheat crops, while in the west, there has been plenty of mildew through the winter.  Oilseed rape crops are

Wild oats have developed resistance to a number of different herbicide actives in some fields. Figure 3: Control levels in resistant (R1 to R4) populations of Italian ryegrass to ACCase Stratos Ultra, Falcon and Axial Pro and ALS Broadway Star and Pacifica® Plus, all applied at recommended label rates. Previous Next Problem grass weeds such as wild oats, sterile brome, Italian ryegrass and blackgrass are increasing in tillage fields. They are very competitive, can cause...

There was little difference in crop yields between plough, shallow plough and min-till systems. Lowering septoria pressure, increasing disease resistance and the benefits of rotation were among the topics at last week’s online tillage conference. Research is telling us that homegrown resistance in grassweeds continues to increase, winter barley copes less well with a strip-till system than other cereals, wheat yields benefit from rotation and an increasing understanding of the basis of genet...