Syngenta: Opportunity to hold back key disease in late-planted wheat
Growers have a valuable opportunity to keep a lid on the UK’s major winter wheat disease of Septoria tritici and protect yield in this...
Hutchinsons: Dry spring brings broadleaf weed control challenges
Broadleaf weed control is proving decidedly more challenging this spring, so extra care will be needed when applying post-emergence herbicides to thin or stressed...
Life Scientific: Off-patent prothiconazole and tebuconazole mixes available to UK growers
Life Scientific has launched the first off-patent prothioconazole and tebuconazole mixtures, Oraso Pro and Esker, to the UK market. This follows the successful launch...
Corteva: Adapt potato herbicide strategies to suit dry conditions
Managing weed-control programmes will take on added importance this year as continued dry weather in most areas hampers the activity of residual herbicides. A...
Fendt: New trailed sprayers offer a sensible investment
Fendt is advocating trailed sprayers as a sensible investment for farmers looking for new technology without committing to a self-propelled machine.
“Our new range of...
Hutchinsons: Make the most of pre-em weed control in sugar beet
Pre-emergence herbicides will need to feature more prominently in sugar beet weed control programmes in order to mitigate the risks from poorer control later...
Syngenta: New application results point way to higher yields and reduced...
Using 75 per cent drift reduction nozzles, rather than conventional flat fan nozzles, for flag leaf fungicide spraying can boost winter wheat yield by...
Kverneland Group and Mazzotti announce continuation of strategic partnership
Kverneland Group and Mazzotti - a John Deere company and market leader in Italy for self-propelled field sprayers - have signed a long-term contract...
Syngenta: Watch for unexpected yellow rust in backward wheat
Be alert for early-season yellow rust outbreaks appearing unexpectedly, especially in backward crops, winter wheat growers are being urged.
Early rust reports are already coming...
John Deere: Guidance without guidance lines
John Deere has launched its new award-winning AutoTrac Vision system for selected tractor and self-propelled sprayer models. This uses a high-resolution front-mounted camera to...
Amazone: The Black Pantera is let out of captivity (tour cancelled!)
Update March 21, 2020: this tour has been cancelled until further notice.
Following its inaugural showing at Agritechnica 2019, Amazone's unique all-black Pantera 450350 is...
Life Scientific: Off-patent prothioconazole fungicide Aurelia coming to market
Life Scientific will launch its very own off-patent prothioconazole fungicide, Aurelia, onto the UK market in Spring 2020. Containing 250g/lit prothioconazole, it is a...
Amazone: FT1502 front tank creates a cost-effective mini self-propelled sprayer
Amazone has offered the FT1001 front tank for many years with great success, and the flexibility of this concept has now been extended by...
Corteva Agroscience: Revolutionary late blight potato fungicide launched in co-formulation
A revolutionary co-formulated fungicide for the prevention of late blight in UK and Irish potato crops will be available for farmers to use during...
Corteva Agroscience: Spring cereals switch demands herbicide strategy rethink
Farmers abandoning winter cereals and switching to spring wheat and barley will need to pay close attention to broadleaf weed control if they are...
Michelin: AxioBib 2 tyres prove the perfect fit for UK’s first...
Nottinghamshire-based Flawborough Farms is getting the best from its next-generation Horsch sprayer after switching the original equipment tyre fitments for a set of Michelin's...
Kuhn: Precision spraying technology on show
A range of new developments to enhance the accuracy and quality of agrochemical applications will be featured by Kuhn at the National Sprayer Demonstration...
Agrifac: Last Condor IV sprayer leaves the factory
The last Condor IV self-propelled sprayer has been produced by Dutch manufacturer Agrifac. The machine left the company's Steenwijk factory closely followed by a...
KWS: New maize seed treatment to replace TMTD and Mesurol
The loss of Mesurol as a maize seed treatment to prevent bird damage is likely to have a far-reaching effect on the industry, but...
Adama: Folpet multi-site fungicide helps future-proof cereal disease control
With mounting resistance to single-site SDHI, azole and strobilurin chemistries making the effective control of wheat and barley diseases increasingly difficult to achieve, a...