Weed & Pest Management News

Agri-biotech company specialising in the next generation of green insecticides, Solasta Bio, has passed a major inflection point with two significant developments that accelerate its path to regulatory approval and commercialisation.

Crop protection company Adama said that this season farmers can make disease control easier with its broad-spectrum fungicide, Maxentis.  

Growers can enjoy yield increases and efficacy improvements on crops whilst reducing fungicide inputs, with interventions of natural biostimulant products from AminoA, the company says.

With winter wheat at a wide range of growth stages coming out of winter, extra care will be needed to manage crop development and disease pressure this spring, agronomy firm Farmacy warns.

Mitigate resistance risk with the use of different triazoles in early fungicide sprays, advises agronomist Mike Thornton of ProCam.  

Colour sorters could be the answer for ergot contamination in your crops, according to Perry of Oakley.

Opico launched new share options, a spot-spraying system and 0% finance package for Farmdroid’s FD20 weed-and-seed robot at LAMMA.

At a press briefing today (10th January 2025) the Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG) announced that a glyphosate-resistant population of Italian ryegrass has been confirmed on a farm in Kent. This is the first field population of any weed to have glyphosate resistance in the UK.

Experts have just revealed that a specific gene appears to protect some fungal threats as they invade wheat. They said that disarming these defences could offer a pathway to keeping pathogens in check.

Introducing FMC’s newest herbicide active, Isoflex, experts explored the increasingly complex challenge of weed control. Sarah Kidby reports.

Corteva Agriscience is warning farmers that weeds are continuing to emerge and grow in oilseed rape crops later than usual due to unseasonably mild temperatures.  

Farmers have been reminded that following the expiry of the active substance approval earlier this year, the sale and supply of any plant protection product containing mancozeb will close at the end of November 2024.