A new app designed to help boost the timeliness of insecticide spraying against aphid vectors of Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) in the absence of being able to use a neonicotinoid seed treatment this autumn, has been launched by Syngenta. Developed for use with the company’s pyrethroid insecticide, Hallmark Zeon, […]
A quarter of UK farmers have made changes to their spraying operations to get better performance from pre-emergence herbicide applications. Heeding the advice and results of the Syngenta #lowslowcovered campaign, over 90% now spray at less than 12 km/hr and 84% have increased spray water volume, to at least 150 […]
wHen2gO is a new Smart Tool, independently developed for BASF, to help inform growers of the optimum application timings for metazachlor and quinmerac, to minimise the risk to water. Launching this autumn, it provides the opportunity to extend the application window of key oilseed rape herbicides into November when it […]