Battling black-grass with Backrow Max
Keith Challen has made significant improvements to black-grass control on the heavily burdened soils of the Belvoir Estate over recent years, and sees Backrow Max as a key part of the strategy.
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Keith Challen has made significant improvements to black-grass control on the heavily burdened soils of the Belvoir Estate over recent years, and sees Backrow Max as a key part of the strategy.
Jon Sensecall has been battling black-grass since 2012 and utilising all the tools in the toolbox, including adjuvant Backrow Max, to help him achieve the best black-grass control possible.
Regenerative farmer Gerry Mee has been no-till for five years in a quest to improve the farm’s soils, and turned to biostimulants to reduce his reliance on single purpose dressings and optimise crop establishment.
Regenerative farmer Simon Bayliss is on a journey to self-sufficiency and using Newton biostimulant seed treatment to help grow better crops.
Soil saviour Matt Waldie is taking a regenerative approach to farm more sustainably and using Newton to improve resilience.
Climate change champion Al Brooks is on the road to net zero and been using Newton to increase wheat establishment in drought prone soils.
Research conducted by Dr. Steve Rossall at the University of Nottingham has shown significant germination and establishment benefits from treating wheat and barley seed with the new biostimulant seed treatment Newton. Find out more.
For the third consecutive year independent blight field trials have shown the performance of REVUS has been maximised with the addition of Crusade drift retardant technology.
With encouraging results already seen in replicated field trials, Agrii agronomist Todd Jex set up a tramline trial to assess the weed control benefits of adjuvant Sorrento in a continuous maize crop in Dorset. Find out more.
Getting the best out of residual herbicides to battle black-grass is becoming increasingly important, and in spray application trials at Agrii, Backrow has proven its ability to improve residual herbicide efficacy by an average of 9.5% in 11 years of trials.
We spoke to some Agrii agronomists across the country to find out how adjuvant Backrow could make a difference in the battle against black-grass this autumn.
As we move into an era where traditional agrochemical pesticides applied to seed are becoming less widely available, Frontier Agriculture’s David Waite believes growers and their advisors are going to seek more natural nutrient and growth promotion solutions to help the plant develop into a healthy seedling – and Newton could be among the answers.
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