In this section you will find all the latest news, pictures, research data and results from the trial plots at the Cereals 2005 site.

Sponsored by: CASE – Bayer – Syngenta – Vaderstad  – Househams

Below is a list of the main areas under the spotlight in the dedicated trials, follow the links for more information and latest pictures:

Agri-environmental schemes –  Wheat –  Drilling precision –  Barley –  Oilseed rape – Cultivation machinery and tractor modifications

1. Agri-environmental Schemes

• Plots designed to show  some of the means of gaining “entry level points” such as buffer strips, pollen and nectar flower mixtures, skylark plots, conservation headlands, undersown spring cereals.
  
• What’s New Zones are clearly defined  by strips of corn flower, corn marigold, and poppies

2. Wheat

• New varieties subject to untreated and a managed system of inputs – Glasgow, Ambrosia, Atlanta, Brompton, Defender.
  
• Blackgrass and Italian Ryegrass control using the pre-ems Liberator, Prosulfucarb, Trifluralin and Chlortoluron, and post-em treatments of Atlantis, Hawk, IPU, NGGC011, and Tigress Ultra.
  
• Fungicide programmes – non-strob and with strobs.
  
• Seed treatments – BYDV demonstration using T435 and TMX, Fusarium control using UKA146, Redigo.
  
• Nutrition – Se bio fortrification, slow release N fertiliser, an organic waste fertiliser, Planet Software recommendations.

3. Drilling precision

• The effect of getting drilling depth wrong on plant population, tillering and ear population
  
• The effect of getting drilling depth wrong when followed by pre-em herbicides.
  
• Versatility of the Vaderstad drill with seed size – from Beans to OSR

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4. Barley

• Hybrid barley management – Colossus and Boost.
  
• Spring and Winter Barley management
  
• Blackgrass and Ryegrass control using pre-ems Liberator, Prosulfucarb and Trifluralin and post ems NGCC011 and Tigress Ultra.
  
• Barley seed treatments – BYDV demonstration using T435 and TMX, loose smut and leaf strip control using Aurigen Gold and Raxil+JAU

5. Oilseed Rape

• Seed treatments – Chinook and TMX
  
• Crop type and canopy management – low biomass, conventional, hybrid and HEAR

6. Cultivation machinery and tractor modifications

• The following cultivators and tractors will be coupled up and on display near the entrance of  “What‘s new in Arable Farming”

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  The following drills and tractors will be coupled up and on display near the wheat area of  “What‘s new in Arable Farming”

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