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Practical tips to help farmers win blackgrass battle

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Practical tips to help farmers win blackgrass battle

16/08/2016

Article taken from EDP online

The cost of battling blackgrass has risen too high for East Anglia’s arable businesses to ignore, according to a rural property agency which has published a guide on how to defeat the weed.

Blackgrass is an increasing problem for farmers, as the majority of the yield-damaging plants emerge within the commercial crop rather than before it is sown, when they could be destroyed more easily. At the same time, herbicides are Read more....