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Light leaf spot is the major oilseed rape disease in Scotland and northern Britain, often seriously reducing rape yields in susceptible crops. Yield losses can reach 40% in the worst cases.

Phoma is currently the most important autumn disease threat to oilseed crops in southern Britain. The major economic losses caused by Phoma are from the stem canker disease phase.

Acceptable levels of control of black-grass and rye-grass will only be achieved where Atlantis WG is applied as part of an overall weed control programme, at the optimum timing, and in tank-mix with an effective residual partner in the autumn...

Top 10 tips for use of pre-emergence herbicides for grass-weed control

Ever since the launch of Atlantis® WG Bayer CropScience has promoted stewardship as a major requirement to safeguard the performance of the product for as long as possible. As grass-weed (and especially black-grass) control becomes more challenging we need to make sure we continue to promote the whole spectrum of the control strategy, and not just to focus on the product.

Rye-grasses can be problem weeds but are rarely found in field situations without black-grass or other damaging grass-weeds also present. In these mixed population weed scenarios it pays to choose a product with the best possible grass-weed spectrum, as even low populations of black-grass can rapidly multiply if not controlled properly and become as big a problem as other grass-weeds.

It's important to get the right start to a weed control programme so irrespective of dormancy predictions growers should be looking to use stale seedbeds and glyphosate at the beginning of the season.

Well consolidated even seedbeds, appropriate seed rates and the right variety - these are the vital prerequisites to good weed control.  Once a competitive crop with good early vigour has been established, the season can be treated on the front foot, Tim and Andrew advise.

Both Target Site Resistance (TSR) and Enhanced Metabolism Resistance (EMR) are threatening the efficacy of cereal herbicides. There has been a steady increase from both mechanisms but EMR is the major form of resistance threatening the most important cereal herbicide, Atlantis WG. Protecting against EMR should be the focus of all growers with black-grass to control, according to the experts.

A more intelligent approach to Crop Protection.

Advanced Seed Treatment Technology is a fresh way of looking at seed treatment and is designed to help deliver the best seed treatment solutions.

To make real changes, we re-examined every aspect of seed treatment to discover how it could be improved by being more precise, streamlined and practical. Our products Redigo, Raxil Pro, Deter, Redigo Deter and Raxil Deter are part of this major initiative, but these are only the start.

Lets use seed treatments safely... together

Technical information regarding Bayer CropScience's seed treatment products.