Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Resistance and unpredictable weather strengthens case for early herbicide applications, growers are advised.

As well as offering winter wheat varieties that combine good yield and marketability, plant breeder KWS reckons that the new generation of varieties must also deliver ‘agronomic value’ if growers are to face up to the challenges and uncertainties of the future.

According to the latest BBRO Advisory Bulletin, the virus yellows forecast is high and reflects the potential impact of the mild winter on aphid populations.

Entries to the livestock classes at Royal Three Counties Show are now open.

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has been nominated for University of the Year, in a prestigious set of awards based on reviews from students themselves.

The 2019-2020 Pioneer hybrid maize booklet has been published by Corteva Agriscience.

Vaccination can help create herd immunity to lungworm, but the oral treatment has to be given twice, four weeks apart, with the latter dose given two weeks before turnout.

Most maize growers are missing out on yield potential by leaving weed control too late.

Much of the early nitrogen applied to cereal and oilseed rape crops across the country during the mild late-February spell could go to waste unless steps are taken to keep it in the rooting zone long enough for crops to make use of it.

Growers aware of growing resistance among a range of broad leaved weeds to ALS herbicides should consider phenoxies this season.

New results from trials suggest barley growers looking to boost control of the growing problem of Ramularia spotting could do so by shifting a key fungicide used against the disease to an earlier timing in the spray programme.

A comprehensive line-up of the latest farm tractors from the McCormick range will feature at a public Open Day being staged on Thursday, March 21 by leading machinery dealership P&D Engineering at its premises in Bredon, Gloucestershire.