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Cereal weed control

These ongoing projects relate to the work that HGCA has commissioned in relation to cereal weed control.

Click on the titles for an upshot of the problem to be addressed, the aims, the approach and the benefits to the industry. Also will be attached the latest information in the form of Annual Project Reports (APRs) or Interim Reports.

RD-2004-3035 Integrated management of herbicide resistance (SA 258) (LK 0965).
The overall aim is to develop more sustainable and appropriate resistance management strategies for individual fields.

RD-2006-3336 Dormancy in grass weeds
The project aims to provide annual information on black-grass and other grass weed dormancy to the industry, Identify the relationship between black-grass dormancy and emergence, and provide more cost effective prediction of effective herbicide strategies.

RD-2006-3341 New strategies to autumn grass weed control in cereals and oilseed rape
To develop strategies for the use of remaining selective herbicides to maintain effective control of black-grass and sterile brome without increasing dependence on products for which concerns over resistance or detection in water already exist.

Please click here to see publications that have arisen out of finished projects.