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News
2004 News Releases
September, 2004 - Agronomists Study Highlights Need to Prioritise Out-of-Crop Weed Control. Significant increases in cereal grass weed infestations have led to marked rises in the use of in-crop herbicides over the past year, reveals a national study of cereal weed control practice involving more than 100 Masstock Arable Group agronomists over the past month.
July 11, 2004 - Managing A Challenging Rape Harvest. Only a handful of the rape crops for which ProCam technical agronomist, Nick Myers is responsible are uniform this season, with many fields having flowered over at least a month if not two.
July, 2004 - Hit Grass Weeds Hard With Multiple Stale Seedbeds. Min-till cereal growers shouldn’t be content with just one stale seedbed between harvest and drilling this season where grass weeds are causing problems.
July, 2004 - Systems Approach To Combat Grass Weeds In Min-Till. Minimum tillage must be treated as a whole new system rather than just a new cultivation regime if growing grass weed problems are to be avoided without dramatic increases in the agrochemical bill.
July, 2004 - Seize 2004 Opportunity to Repair Two Years of Poor Autumn Weed Control. With staggering amounts of brome plaguing cereal crops in many areas and serious ryegrass and black-grass problems in others, leading agronomists are urging UK growers to take full advantage of the excellent opportunity they have this autumn to repair the damage caused by two consecutive years of poor establishment weed control.
July, 2004 - Technical Note: Roundup Formulations and Seed Crops.
June, 2004 - 30 Years of Progress - The Blossoming of Modern Weed Control. Since the mid-Seventies the choice of herbicide active ingredients available to UK growers has expanded almost unbelievably.
June, 2004 - 30 Years of Progress - Formula For Improvement. Alongside plant breeding, the advances made in herbicide chemistry over the past three decades have been a crucial factor in increasing crop performance, reducing labour requirements and improving arable productivity.
June, 2004 - Thirty Years of Progress Initiative To Boost British Farming Confidence. A major industry initiative has been launched this summer to give the British farming industry the confidence it needs to make the most of the completely new era of EU agricultural policy ahead.
April, 2004 - Set-aside Briefing Notes 2004.
February, 2004 - 2003 Experience Underlines Value of Flexibility In Spring Weed Spraying. Modern, high intensity wheat systems are turning one of our biggest potential grass weed threats into a serious problem for many.
February, 2004 - Dry Autumn Prompts Brome Alert. Brome problems are set to mushroom this year if wheat growers are not very careful indeed, warn leading agronomists.
February, 2004 - Stay Flexible To Tackle Serious Brome Threat. Build sufficient flexibility into your spring spraying programme to tackle a grass weed threat which is poised to mushroom this year, wheat growers have been advised.
February, 2004 - Extended Tank-Mix Compatibility Adds To Spring Brome Killer Flexibility. Extensive testing has increased the spectrum of herbicides, fungicides, PGRs, insecticides, adjuvants and trace elements with which brome killer, Monitor (sulfosulfuron) can safely be tank-mixed for maximum winter wheat spraying value and flexibility this season.
February, 2004 - Zero Tolerance with Brome. Modern, high intensity wheat systems are turning one of our biggest potential grass weed threats into a serious problem for many.
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