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For the past 30 years atrazine has been the herbicide of choice for the majority of maize growers, but from September 2006 this product can no longer be used. Maize [...]

Conventional ensiling wisdom has it that you must squeeze every bit of air out of the clamp as your heaviest tractor can manage, but now a new additive has been [...]

Amongst all the controversy surrounding the value of silage additives, evidence is mounting to show that some inoculant silages will produce better livestock performance than untreated silages, and now researchers [...]

Evidence has emerged that the strobilurin azoxystrobin applied as a foliar spray to winter wheat can give useful reductions in the severity of take-all on roots. Teresa Rush reports. Manufacturer [...]

CIPC treatments can be an influential factor in making a crop marketable and need to be considered as part of a sprout control programme if profits are to be achieved. [...]

Trials databases can provide useful information on the reliability and consistency of herbicide performance over a number of sites and seasons. Teresa Rush reports. Syngenta conducted its 2000/2001 winter wheat [...]

Price pressure is prompting farmers to cut back on agrochemicals, but it's false economy, warns Richard Williamson, farms director for Velcourt in the south west. Farmers have a habit of [...]

A survey carried out at this year's Sprays and Sprayers event revealed that of those questioned 77 per cent had used metaldehyde slug pellets in the last year, so clearly [...]

'Bring out your dead,' urges Sue Lightfoot of Nemathorin manufacturer, Syngenta. Ms Lightfoot reminds growers to return their Surefill containers, so that they can be re-used next season. 'The new [...]

Potato growers could achieve significant savings in potato desiccation costs, and help reduce their overall use of pesticides, if they adopt some of the new ideas in sequential treatments, according [...]

Punch C (flusilazole) was approved for use in sugar beet in 1999 and since then has established a good track record for yield boosting effects as a result of its [...]

Sugar beet growers are urged to persist with pre- and post-emergence sprays this season for effective weed control. Any saving on herbicide inputs achieved by economising on pre- or post- [...]

Many growers are unaware of the rotational, crop and product restrictions associated with ALS inhibitor herbicides. Teresa Rush paid a visit to DuPont to find out some of the do's [...]

Twelve months ago the challenge facing many growers was to nurse late- established, thin crops through to harvest. Now many of the same growers are faced with lush, forward, high [...]