Archive Article: 2000/06/16
SM99 adjuvant oil and we will use this mix little and often to control annual weeds.
We are spraying wild oats in cereals with 1.5 litres/ha of Cheetah (fenoxaprop-p-ethyl) in winter wheat and with 0.6 litres/ha of Grasp (tralkoxydim) plus oil in spring barley.
We have just had our third Quality Assured visit of the year. This time it was for vegetables and the most in-depth inspection yet. Scottish Quality Beef and Lamb and a Scottish Quality Cereals check were done earlier in the year. We have been involved with these schemes for a few years now and are used to the hassles that many English growers are now experiencing. But every other part of the food chain is under constant scrutiny so we must be seen to be co-operating. I believe we have to bite the bullet. *