Plan now to battle the burgeoning blackgrass burden in grain fields

摘要

Cereals growers are being urged to redouble their efforts to control blackgrass by delaying drilling and opting for spring cropping after an upsurge this season in levels of the pernicious grassweed.A mild winter and a slow cool spring allowed blackgrass to thrive in uncompetitive cereal crops, and the grassweed tillered strongly to create large blackgrass plants.