Balancing AB15 Stewardship mixes with perennial grasses is vital to optimise their effectiveness in managing problem grassweeds, confirm the latest trials.

A profitable return to early winter wheat on land with a serious blackgrass history is raising hopes for growers.

With potato crops around a fortnight ahead of normal, growers who haven’t yet done so should consider applying sprout suppressant maleic hydrazide.

A four-stage strategy to control blackgrass is paying dividends for David Knott, general manager of Trumpington Farms, south-west of Cambridge.

Four new winter wheats – including two high yielding varieties with bread-making potential – could be commercially available for drilling in autumn 2023.

Growers are being advised to pay special attention to the benefits of incorporating straw this harvest – before deciding whether to bale and sell it off the farm.