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Blackgrass

How do pre-emergent herbicides interact with blackgrass?

Arable

5 months ago

How do pre-emergent herbicides interact with blackgrass?

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have discovered that pre-emergent herbicides affect blackgrass in strikingly different ways.

Growing potential for use of AI in fight against blackgrass weed infections

Arable

7 months ago

Growing potential for use of AI in fight against blackgrass weed infections

There is a growing expectation that AI will be used to help deal with the threat of blackgrass weed infections in cereal crops

Waterlogging tolerance in blackgrass revealed by scientists

Arable

2 years ago

Waterlogging tolerance in blackgrass revealed by scientists

Research trials have consistently conformed that blackgrass thrives on heavy land, particularly where drainage is poor...

Tillage: The biology of blackgrass and ways to prevent it

Arable

2 years ago

Tillage: The biology of blackgrass and ways to prevent it

A combination of knowing the biology of blackgrass and effective stubble management, can serve to...

Tillage: The challenge of grass weeds in 2024

Arable

2 years ago

Tillage: The challenge of grass weeds in 2024

Grass weeds are a problem on almost all tillage farms in Ireland. Wild oats, bromes and annual meadow grass are the most common. However.....

Arable

3 years ago

How weeds adapt within a tillage system

It is now widely recognised that weeds adapt within a tillage system at various levels, and in various ways.

How weeds adapt within a tillage system

N.Ireland

3 years ago

DNA loops provide clue to herbicide resistance in blackgrass

Blackgrass is a particularly persistent weed of winter wheat. Its success is largely due to...

DNA loops provide clue to herbicide resistance in blackgrass

Arable

4 years ago

Implementing the cultural control of blackgrass

Tillage farmers in the UK have been left with cultural control as being the primary means of...

Implementing the cultural control of blackgrass

Arable

5 years ago

Existing chemistries still important in controlling herbicide-resistant weeds

According to Life Scientific UK and Ireland country manager, Ruth Stanley, existing chemistries can...

Existing chemistries still important in controlling herbicide-resistant weeds

Arable

6 years ago

Overuse of herbicides costing UK economy £400 million a year

Weed resistance to herbicides is costing the UK's economy as much as £400 million a year, according to scientists.

Overuse of herbicides costing UK economy £400 million a year

Agri-Business

8 years ago

The results are in...but do cover crops really work against black-grass?

The results are in from an Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board study to quantify long-term black-grass impacts of cover crops.

The results are in...but do cover crops really work against black-grass?

Arable

8 years ago

Pregnancy test for blackgrass…how does it work?

Researchers at Newcastle University have used technology from human pregnancy tests to identify the...

Pregnancy test for blackgrass…how does it work?

N.Ireland

9 years ago

Major challenge posed by Black Grass and Brome Grass

AFBI plant scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat posed by Black Grass and Brome Grass

Major challenge posed by Black Grass and Brome Grass

Arable

11 years ago

Here is the easiest way to control Black Grass in a direct drilling system

The easiest method of controlling Black Grass in winter crops is to drill later, said Patrick Stevenson.

Here is the easiest way to control Black Grass in a direct drilling system

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