Brome in Winter Wheat

Incidence of grassweeds is largely confined to the major cereal growing regions of the country. Ryegrass distribution is more widespread and significant where grass leys form part of the rotation. Wild oats follow a similar pattern, spreading from Yorkshire to Devon and the intense arable areas of south and east Scotland. Bromes in recent years have become more widespread and where they were once confined to the headland, are now being seen across the field, spread by combining and cultivations. Increasing prevalence of grassweeds in cereals can be in part be attributed to a shift in farming practice including:

• Movement towards more profitable autumn cropping
• The use of minimum cultivation systems
• A trend towards earlier drilling
• A reduction in rotations and spring cropping
• The straw burning ban

Consequently soil seed banks are replenished and the window for control by non-selective pre-emergence herbicides is reduced

For more information on idenitifcation and biology of bromes, ryegrass and wild oats click here.

Broadway Star offers excellent control of ryegrass, brome species and wild oats in winter wheat, rye and triticale in non-blackgrass areas.  It also offers cross-spectrum weed control against a number of key broad-leaved weeds including cleavers, speedwells, groundsel, charlock, pansy and cranesbill.

 Broadway Sunrise offers excellent control of key grassweed species including blackgrass, ryegrass, brome species and wild oats in winter wheat, rye and triticale. It also offers cross-spectrum weed control against a number of key broad-leaved weeds. The combination of pyroxsulam and pendimethalin in Broadway Sunrise gives both contact and residual activity against target weeds.

UNITE is the widest spectrum graminicide in the UK controlling key grassweed species in winter wheat including blackgrass, ryegrass, brome species and wild oats. It is also active against loose silky bent, canary grass, couch (from seed) and meadow grass, as well as a number of broad-leaved weeds. Unite can be mixed with a residual herbicide to offer comprehensive treatment of blackgrass populations.