How to cope with a rising wild oat weed problem

摘要

Direct-drilling winter cereals and getting the resultant crops well established in the autumn are key to control the rising problem of wild oats seen in the past two seasons.Wild oats have been largely kept in check by blackgrass herbicides, but two very wet autumns and an increase in winter-emerging wild oats has seen the weed become a bigger problem.Add in the fact that winter-emerging wild oats seem to be developing resistance to contact herbicides more quickly than their spring cousins and the problem is exacerbated.