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2014 - An old fashioned summer at last
Alan Abel from Complete Weed Control gives his monthly advice on what to look out for
Desiccation timing to manage tuber size
Potato crops have enjoyed extremely good growing conditions across most of the UK this season
Watch out now for flea beetle numbers
Keep an eye on volunteer rape now emerging in stubbles
Consider forage crops instead of drilling cereals
Growing grass and forage crops could alleviate some of the pain of low cereal prices and resistant blackgrass
Don’t let black-grass through the gate
Farmers without black-grass have heard enough stories by now to know it won’t be a welcome addition to their rotation plans, nor would those with susceptible black-grass want a resistant strain adding to their problems.
Manage stale seedbeds to maximise black-grass kill
Stale seedbeds will be a crucial weapon in the fight against black-grass this season.
OSR exports get underway
One of the first oilseed rape exports of harvest 2014 left the UK this week in what is expected to mark the start to a busy export season for merchants and traders.
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