Case Studies on Weed Management
Over 50 farmers have taken part in this study to share their thoughts and
experiences on weed management. We have written their comments up as case
studies that can be accessed by clicking on the links below.
You can sort the list by name, location (to
county level), farm
type (arable, mixed, livestock, horticultural) or main
weed problems. Feel free to make constructive comments
or suggestions on each case using the add comments button,
or alternatively, you are welcome to raise points through the
general open forum page.
Also, please let us know if you find this kind of case study work useful
and how we could expand on it.
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| Name | Location | Farm type | Main weed problem  |
Farm Size (ha) |
| Pete Berry | Yorkshire | mixed (cereal) | annuals | 76 |
| Alistair Beales | Norfolk | mixed | annuals, dock, thistle | 73 |
| Adrian Hares | Wiltshire | mixed | blackgrass | 121 |
| Joe Scott | Warwickshire | mixed (cereal) | blackgrass, charlock, volunteers | 1416 |
| John Newman | Gloucestershire | mixed (cereal/veg) | blackgrass, couch, dock, thistle | 635 |
| Chris Peachey | Gloucestershire | mixed (cereal) | blackgrass, dock | 300 |
| Edward Goff | Shropshire | mixed (cereal) | charlock | 57 |
| Paul Harris | Cornwall | arable | charlock, dock | 162 |
| Hugh Collins | Wiltshire | horticultural | chickweed, dock, grasses | 4.5 |
| Nigel and Paul Fraser | Herefordshire | mixed (dairy, arable, vegetable) | chickweed, some annuals, creeping thistle | 160 |
| Richard Mee | Leicestershire | mixed | couch, creeping thistle, docks, wild oats, vol.beans | 263 |
| Keith Walby | Gloucestershire | mixed (cereal) | couch, dock, fat hen | 43 |
| Oliver Dowding | Somerset | mixed (cereal) | couch, dock, redshank | 445 |
| James Norman | Berkshire | mixed (cereal) | couch, dock, thistle | 109 |
| John Erlam | Chesire | mixed (cereal) | couch, dock, thistle | 59 |
| Richard Styles | Worcestershire | mixed (cereal/veg) | couch, dock, thistle | 141 |
| Bill Cormack | Lincolnshire | arable (stockless) | creeping thistle, couch | 21 |
| Alan Simpson | Suffolk | horticultural | creeping thistle, vol.potatoes, couch and docks | 3.6 |
| David Leech | Lincolnshire | arable | dock | 100 |
| David Redgate | Nottinghamshire | mixed (cereal) | dock | 89 |
| Michael Allwood | Cheshire | livestock | dock | 93 |
| Lester Lavington | North Somerset | mixed (cereal) | dock | 174 |
| John and Nicki Saunders | Warwickshire | mixed (cereal) | dock | 73 |
| John & Tim Downes | Shropshire | mixed (cereal) | dock | 227 |
| Simon Tomlinson | Gloucestershire | mixed (cereal) | dock | 364 |
| Paul Redmore | Surrey | mixed (cereal) | dock, mayweed, thistle | 405 |
| Geoffrey Parkinson | Lancashire | mixed (cereal) | dock, nettle | 42 |
| Phil Pennington | Hertfordshire | livestock | dock, nettle, ragwort, thistle | 202 |
| Christopher Stockdale | Herefordshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, nettle, thistle | 20 |
| Simon Viner | Berkshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, nettle, thistle | 890 |
| George Browning | Warwickshire | mixed (cereal/veg) | dock, ragwort | 32 |
| Martin Steer | Cheshire | mixed (cereal/veg) | dock, ragwort | 24.3 |
| Karl Barton | West Sussex | mixed (cereal) | dock, ragwort | 1052 |
| Robert Bostock | Cheshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, sowthistle | 255 |
| Ashley Hedges | Derbyshire | livestock | dock, thistle | 87 |
| Colin Peters | Bedfordshire | arable | dock, thistle | 61 |
| Elizabeth Buchanan | East Sussex | livestock | dock, thistle | 40 |
| Iain Cochrane | Devon | livestock | dock, thistle | 20 |
| Louise Thompson | Berkshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle | 93 |
| Paul and Elizabeth Izod | Herefordshire | horticultural | dock, thistle | 4.0 |
| Steve Castle | Berkshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle | 69 |
| Wallace McCurdie | Warwickshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle | 220 |
| Roger Jones | Suffolk | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle, blackgrass | 147 |
| Dick Roper | Gloucestershire | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle, wild oat | 1214 |
| Philip Day | Oxfordshire | mixed (cereal) | dock, thistle, wild oat, volunteer | 405 |
| Martin Harris | Herefordshire | mixed | docks | 13 |
| Alan Schofield | Lancashire | horticultural | docks | 1.4 |
| Martin and Rachel Soble | Herefordshire | fruit and vegetable | docks | 18 |
| John and Guy Turner | Leicestershire | mixed (cereal) | docks, spear thistle, chickweed | 97 |
| David Wilson | Gloucestershire | mixed | docks, wild oats | 728 |
| Dan Seaborne | Herefordshire | mixed (cereal) | docks, wild oats, couch, charlock | 224 |
| Graeme Matravers | Leicestershire | mixed | docks, wild oats, creeping thistle | 121 |
| Gerry Minister | Kent | mixed (cereal/veg) | general problems | 393 |
| Anon | Wiltshire | mixed (cereal) | general problems | 728 |
| Peter Wheeler | Pembrokshire | mixed (cereal) | hemlock, ragwort | 101 |
| Coen Van Beuningen | Norfolk | mixed (cereal/veg) | perennials | 140 |
| David Thornley | Herefordshire | mixed (cereal) | perennials | 50 |
| Jim Candy | Cornwall | mixed (cereal/veg) | perennials | 104 |
| Hilary Jones | Kent | livestock | thistle | 80 |
| Donald Morton | Norfolk | horticultural | thistle, nettle, general problems | 283 |
| Peter Cornish | South Yorksire | arable and horticultural | wild oats, couch | 800 |
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