With recent springs becoming increasingly arid, barley growers are being advised to ensure weed control programmes provide effective protection in dry conditions. That is the advice from ProCam’s head of crop production, Mike Thornton, who explains that with as little as 110 days between spring barley being drilled and harvested, it is important to ensure crops aren’t held back by weeds which will deprive crops of light, water and nutrients, and which could also reduce the number of viable shoots a plant puts down at early tillering. “The majority of spring barley will hopefully go into a stale seedbed which…