BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AGAINST BLACK GRASS!
Black Grass Biology Group
2024 progress report
On-farm trials
This year we partnered with 16 farms to run commercial-scale trials to assess the potential for applying fungal spores to help with the control of black grass. Most of the trials were 50-150 hectares in size. Below is a summary of our findings so far this year:
32% of the farms running trials reported observing either an effect on black grass numbers by June, or symptoms of disease amongst the black grass population.
The remaining 68% did not observe an effect at the time we enquired in June.
The unprecedented wet spring meant that…
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