Arable
Scientists at Rothamsted Research have discovered that pre-emergent herbicides affect blackgrass in strikingly different ways.
Agri-Business
The government of France has said it will officially move to suspend imports of plant products grown with substances banned in the EU.
Environment
Guernsey Water has confirmed that 58 pesticide detections have been identified in the first three months of 2023.
Researchers at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have teamed up with agtech company Syngenta.
N.Ireland
Measures introduced to improve the control of farm run-off, which were trialled under the Source to Tap Scheme, have resulted in less MCPA...
Machinery
Herbicide application rates within vegetable crops can be reduced substantially through the use of mechanical weed control between rows while band spraying herbicide only within rows.
According to Life Scientific UK and Ireland country manager, Ruth Stanley, existing chemistries can...
German multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer has recorded first quarter group sales of €11.8m.
Once field conditions allow, winter crops will need their first N application to breathe life back into them, Leigh McClean of CAFRE advises.
Since the mid-1990s there has been a dramatic increase in the volume of glyphosate herbicides that have been applied, research has found.
Significant numbers of UK tillage are using glyphosate to tackle grassland weeds up to six times in a single season
Monsanto has expressed surprise at the decision taken by French Environment Minister Ségolène Royal to ban the herbicide Roundup from garden centres
Fumitory and other broadleaf weeds remain a challenge on Co Derry tillage farm.
Syngenta, the crop chemicals manufacturer, has reported sales of $4 billion for the first quarter of 2015.
