Crop production for a fast-changing world
Tools, ideas & inspiration for smarter farming - the future starts now
The digital yellow trap for oilseed rape pests
MagicTrap is a fully automated, digital, yellow, water trap for oilseed rape that provides information in real-time on the presence of OSR pests in your field directly to your smartphone. Helping you to understand the pressure in your field at anytime, from anywhere.
Industry insights from experts in the field
Weed Management
Weed Management
Everything you wanted to know about residual chemistry
Following suitable cultural controls, residual herbicides are the foundation of weed control in winter cereals, particularly against the twin menaces of black-grass and Italian ryegrass.
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Weed Management
Reinventing the wheel
What have we learnt about black-grass control in the last 100 years and why does it remain so difficult to control?
Seed & Establishment
Monitoring with MagicTrap to inform OSR drilling decisions
As trials manager for Agrovista, David Blance is all too familiar with the threat cabbage stem flea beetle.
Local Insights
Advice on three possible jobs growers face in September
Rachel Banks highlights three key tasks growers in East Anglia could face this September
Crop Diseases, Weeds and Pests
We provide a wide range of crop protection products designed to control diseases, pests and weeds, and maximise yields in order to increase profitability. Click on the links below to help identify the problem that is affecting your crop, and find out more about the solutions that we offer.
The Bayer Carbon Programme
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and locking carbon away in soil is touted as a key part of global efforts to combat climate change. While undoubtedly important, it is still unclear what overall contribution arable farms can make and how this fits with running a profitable business.
That is why Bayer has launched a Europe-wide Carbon Programme featuring five UK farmers and 23 others from seven European countries to investigate the practicalities of storing soil carbon and reducing greenhouse gases
