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New herbicides under test to break grassweed resistance

Moa Technology has been awarded over £900,000 of funding through the Defra Farming Innovation Investor Partnership (FIIP) programme to develop new novel modes of action to overcome resistant grassweeds. Moa…

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Care needed with SFI weed control choices

Select chemistry carefully when managing weeds in Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) mixes is the message from Hutchinsons technical manager, Dick Neale He warns that conventional agronomy…

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New herbicides under test to break grassweed resistance

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Moa Technology has been awarded over £900,000 of funding through the Defra Farming Innovation Investor Partnership (FIIP) programme to develop new novel modes of action to overcome resistant grassweeds. Moa has built on breakthrough research from Oxford University to successfully identify multiple novel herbicidal modes of action capable of breaking weed resistance, several of which have already shown excellent and consistent performance in five seasons of English and international field trials. Unchecked, spreading blackgrass resistance could cost UK agriculture £1 billion annually according to Rothamsted Research. Among the products being investigated is new post-emergent herbicide showing strong efficacy on English…