Cereals
Minimise risk to maximise the potential of your cereal crop this season
Managing cereal disease risk
Syngenta Solutions
Managing rooting and lodging risk
The Root of the Problem
ADAS trials show modern wheat varieties have significantly poorer root structures. Today’s wheat crops typically have less than the Critical Root Density below 30cm depth.
Better rooting gives:
- Stronger anchorage
- Improved drought resistance
- Greater uptake of nutrients
- Enhanced plant health
Syngenta Solutions
Managing weeds in cereal crops
Wild oats and rye-grass
Reliable control of spring grass weeds like wild oats and rye-grass is critical to protect yield in your cereal crop. Just five wild oat or eight rye-grass plants/m² can cause a significant yield loss worth around £60/ha.
These weeds are also becoming more difficult to control in some places due to enhanced metabolism and target site resistance to some herbicides.
Growers can benefit from AXIAL’s unique DEN chemistry with unique mode of action as it is not affected in the same way as ‘fops’ (e.g. fenoxaprop or clodinafop) by resistance and has demonstrated superior control compared to sulfonylureas.
