Spring wheat is finding favour with growers struggling to control blackgrass, as many varieties can be drilled from the end of October through until April and with lower inputs than winter cereals. This renewed interest is being driven by the need tokill black-grass, believes Colin Lloyd, head of agronomy at distributor Agrii, who has been conducting trials with spring wheat for the past five years. "It's given us some nice surprises. We've achieved some very good yields, in the region of 8-9t/ha, from early spring sowings," he says.
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