Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy announced 28th June 2019 the successful projects that will be awarded funding under the Transforming Food Production, including 19 Agri-Tech East members
The results come from a new ‘early warning system’ that has been developed at Rothamsted that aims to identify those weed populations that are close to becoming herbicide resistant.
For growers faced with the tricky choice of controlling blackgrass with post-emergence herbicides or spraying off with glyphosate, the new oil dispersion formulation of Atlantis offers promise says Velcourt
Wheat plants respond to the presence of neighbours, including blackgrass, by changing the length of their roots, according to authors Stéphanie Swarbreck and Julia Davies. Blackgrass
The most of the black-grass control advantage came from delaying sowing of winter wheat from mid/late September to early/mid October and the use of pre-emergence herbicide
Blackgrass can be reduced by nearly 50% depending on the time of sowing of winter wheat, a new field lab has concluded. Findings from Innovative Farmers
Pangaea Agrochemicals, based in Norwich and Cambridge has gained a grant from the Eastern Agri-Tech Growth Initiative to develop a product to tackle pesticide resistant black-grass.