Keeping Pace? Continuing weed challenges and new control technologies

The 61st Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on Thursday 31 October 2024 at the Sophi Taylor Building, NIAB, Cambridge

The theme of this year’s Review was “Keeping Pace? Continuing weed challenges and new control technologies”. Click on the presntation headings to view.

Chairman: Richard Hull, Rothamsted Research

Session one: project updates
10.00am Perspectives on agroecological weed management.
Speaker: Jonathan Storkey, Rothamsted

10.30am OPER8 Alternative weed control European project update
Speaker: Lynn Tatnell, ADAS

11.00am BGRI black-grass farm network 10 years on, what lessons have we learned?
Speaker: Laura Crook, Rothamsted

Comfort Break 11.30-11.45am

Session two: Novel technologies
11.45am Harvest Weed Seed Control (HWSC): use in the UK
Speaker: Tom Allen-Stevens, BOFIN

12.15am Robotic Weeding System
James Miller, Earth Rover

12.45am PhD Poster Presentations

• Tala Chouman  – Rothamsted Research
• Peggy McGroary  – Rothamsted Research
• Katherine Hardy  – Nottingham Trent University

HRAC & EWRS update

Lunch 1.00-2.00pm

Session three: Emerging weeds 

2.00pm Sampling of Vulpia myuros and comparison between urban and arable situations and their traits.
Speaker: Lucie Buchi & Kainat Bibi, University of Greenwich

2.30pm Invasive trees, shrubs and climbers
Speaker: Brian Talyor, The Knotweed Company

3.00pm Concluding Remarks from Chairman

To view presentations from previous Reviews click here