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Encourage your black-grass to grow Curve Overlay
06/09/2016

Encourage your black-grass to grow

Cover crops are proving to be a useful component in the heavy land battle against resistant black-grass, particularly when grown ahead of direct drilled spring wheat and spring barley. Dominic Kilburn explains. 

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Timely Companions Curve Overlay
06/09/2016

Timely Companions

At Reaseheath College, Nantwich, Agrovista and Pottinger have worked together on a project researching new methods of undersowing grass into maize. With two months to go until harvest, we went along to find out more. Matthew Tilt reports.

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Project Lamport: Update Curve Overlay
06/09/2016

Project Lamport: Update

Despite all the talk and advice surrounding blackgrass control over the years, the problem refuses to go away. As a consequence, Agrovista and Bayer CropScience joined forces to set up Project Lamport, a 5 year project to develop new ways of controlling blackgrass on heavy land.

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Companion cropping could solve maize environmental issues Curve Overlay
26/08/2016

Companion cropping could solve maize environmental issues

- Companion crops can reduce soil erosion, leaching and structural damage in maize - First UK trial aims to uncover best seed mixes and weed management strategy - Drill gives one-pass solution to establish maize and companion crop at same time

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Spring crops rid heavy land of bad blackgrass Curve Overlay
26/08/2016

Spring crops rid heavy land of bad blackgrass

A long-term heavy land trial in Northamptonshire examining how growers can control blackgrass is offering good proof that spring-sown crops and a healthy dose of patience make a winning combination.

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Recognising progressive farmers - leading through business practice and example Curve Overlay
26/08/2016

Recognising progressive farmers - leading through business practice and example

Agriculture has always faced challenges, and in the current marketplace it takes strong leadership and business acumen to stand out and succeed — that's why Agrovista continues to sponsor the Progressive Farmer of the Year category in the Food & Farming Industry Awards.

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Sizing app saves time Curve Overlay
18/08/2016

Sizing app saves time

A new App for sizing potatoes was on display at Potatoes in Practice.

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Botanicoir future proofing coir supplies Curve Overlay
17/08/2016

Botanicoir future proofing coir supplies

Botanicoir is investing €1.2m in the first completely automated coir-drying facility, to ensure that the issues caused by a two-year monsoon in Sri Lanka can never happen again. The Sri Lankan monsoon season is normally from September to November, but during 2015/16, unprecedented rainfall affected the whole coir industry.

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Practical tips to help farmers win blackgrass battle Curve Overlay
16/08/2016

Practical tips to help farmers win blackgrass battle

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.

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