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2006 News Stories
August, 2006 - Early Harvest And Recent Rain Provide Excellent Weed Control Opportunity With the harvest a good week to 10 days ahead for most and almost everyone receiving some rain in the past week, growers across the country have the ideal opportunity to get on top of annual grass weeds ahead of drilling this autumn, advises Dr Dave Ellerton of ProCam.
August, 2006 - Match Cultivations To Weed Control Needs Providing you safeguard soil moisture, you should be able to control weeds and volunteers very effectively ahead of drilling this autumn.
July, 2006 - Latest Combine Costings Highlight Cereal Harvest Management Value UK cereal growers could cut more than £2/ha from their combining bill alone by better harvesting management, according to the latest calculations from leading combine specialists, Claas UK. As well as saving nearly 30% on fuel costs, they have the opportunity to cut combining time substantially, improving the timeliness and security of their harvest while freeing-up labour and machinery for cultivations.
July, 2006 - Challenging Condition Research Highlights Modern Glyphosate Advantages Modern Roundup formulations have major advantages over traditional glyphosates in meeting the challenges of today's high pressure arable systems, reveals the latest specialist research.
July, 2006 - Rising To Modern Establishment Challenges There is much UK growers can do to buy themselves time while reducing risk in their autumn seedbed preparation without changing their cultivation system, believes establishment specialist, Manda Sansom of Monsanto.
July, 2006 - Gear-Up For Challenging OSR Harvest With so many tall, thick oilseed rape crops this season and lodging already evident in some, Claas combine manager, Paul Moss urges growers to gear up with the right harvesting approach if they are to avoid a frustrating and time-consuming harvest.
July, 2006 - Know Your Enemy In 'Couch' Control Many farmers across the country are failing to get on top of their couch because it's not the weed they think it is, warns Bob Mills of Frontier Agriculture.
July, 2006 - Couch' Identification and Roundup Control
July, 2006 - Fresh Weed Control Approach Advised To Ease Establishment Workloads Ever-increasing workload pressures mean UK growers need to take a fresh approach to their establishment weed control strategies from this season, tackling any perennial weeds ahead of harvest and concentrating on a fast turnround stale seedbed or stubble regime for annuals.
July, 2006 - OSR Harvesting Trials Highlight Desiccation Flexibility Desiccation with glyphosate offers oilseed rape growers greater flexibility to avoid the losses in both oil content and yield that can result from swathing too early, according to newly published HGCA trials run by the Arable Group.
July, 2006 - Frontier Launches Powerful New Roundup A powerful new Roundup herbicide has been launched by Frontier Agriculture this season to meet the particular challenges of reliable weed control in modern, high pressure arable systems.
July, 2006 - The Roundup Guide to ELS Management A quick guide to the practicalities and pitfalls of the key Entry Level Stewardship options for English agronomists, produced with specialist advice from the Rural Development Service (RDS) and working agronomists across the country.
July, 2006 - Spring Spray Pressures Blessing In Disguise For Set Aside Weed Control Don't worry about set aside spraying. Prioritise your foliar fungicides, PGRs and herbicides in this spring's particularly tight spraying window. Your set aside can easily wait for its treatment. Indeed, it will probably be all the better for the delay.
April, 2006 - The Roundup guide to ELS management
May, 2006 - Notes on the use of Weed Wipers with Roundup Ready Brands
March, 2006 - Roundup Technical Bulletin
Tidy-up unwanted green material post-planting, but before crop emergence and save a pass, by tank-mixing Roundup with many pre-emergence herbicide treatments this spring.
February, 2006 - Brome Rears Its Ugly Head. After a welcome respite in 2005, leading agronomists warn that brome is poised to cause serious headaches for many wheat growers again this spring, urging everyone to re-double their efforts to keep on top of this troublesome and highly-competitive weed.
January, 2006 - Eco-Schemes Multiply 2006 Weed Threat.
The Single Payment Scheme and Entry Level Stewardship will lead to a major upsurge in arable weed problems on many farms over the coming season if growers are not very careful indeed, with grass weeds like brome gaining a particular advantage which may take years to put right.
January, 2006 - Set-Aside Briefing Notes.
Under the Single Payment Scheme the amount of land to be used for set-aside entitlements in 2006 is the same as designated in 2005 for every farmer in England.
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