The study will analyze how wild oats become herbicide-resistant and will look into new techniques to manage the weed. Wild oats slow down local farmers productivity, especially in barley crops.

While many herbicides are better at controlling weeds in warmer conditions, Lachowiec said wild oats show the opposite trend, becoming more resistant in hotter weather.

The focus on blackgrass control, and a shift towards min-till systems, may also have contributed to more problems with wild oats, especially as the weeds need tackling in different ways, she adds.

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Foliar application of AXIAL® Xtra (Group 1) can be subsequently used to target later germinations of grass weeds including ARG, wild oats and phalaris.

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