Black-grass

BASF has received approval in Great Britain for its new active substance, Luximo (cinmethylin), and the product containing this active, Luxinum Plus, providing a new mode of action against grass-weeds.

An AHDB PhD student is exploring how root exudates help some cereals to compete with black-grass.

A project investigating brome on UK arable farms has found all brome species have increased in prevalence and some are becoming less sensitive to certain herbicides.

Following the end of the use up period for bromoxynil last month, linseed growers are reminded they still have a means of controlling difficult to control broadleaved weeds thanks to an EAMU.

After a prolonged dry and settled late summer, some soil moisture will now bring a welcome chance for finer seedbed preparation, as well as a boost to residual herbicide performance.

If tempted to drill winter cereals early on the back of two difficult autumns it pays to be aware of yield, weed and disease implications.

Practical glyphosate application guidelines, published by the Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG), aims to help arable growers reduce the increasing risk of glyphosate resistance developing in grass-weeds.

The result of the temptation to drill earlierlastautumn to ensure crops were safely in the ground is evident insome fields as highnumbers of black-grass headsemerge above the crop.

Farmers are being asked to assist in a new study looking at the spread of rat’s tail fescue, a grass-weed that is already posing problems in France, Switzerland, Spain and Denmark - and is now starting to take hold in England

Small Robot company (SRC) has announced its Tom monitoring robot is now delivered to commercial specification and entering service on UK farms.