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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

over 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

over 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

over 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

over 2 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

over 2 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

over 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

almost 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...

Existing chemistries still important in controlling herbicide-resistant weeds

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