Black-grass Open Day - 3 June 24

NIAB's first open black-grass event for over five years with a tour of our new black-grass trials site at Hinxton, south of Cambridge, plus a round-up on NIAB's latest advice for black-grass management and control.

John Cussans (Weed Management Specialist, NIAB), Jasper Kanomanyanga (PhD student in weed management) and Joseph Martlew (Research Agronomist, NIAB) will lead tours of the site and will be available to discuss weed management strategies including:

• The importance of cultural controls measures for successful black-grass management
• The role of utilising herbicide mode of actions to improve weed control
• The factors that contribute to herbicide performance from a long-term dataset
•  The future of weed control and how alternative tools and techniques will need to be integrated

EVENT TIMETABLE

• 10.00am Registration and welcome
• 10.30am Tour starts
• 1.00pm    Finish

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BASIS and NRoSO points applied for