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SSkater replied to the thread Roots after roots.The theory about it being worse is, a theory. Even in WWII when they did a massive amount of work on the subject, it was better one year...
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SSkater replied to the thread DD on livestock farm.I am the agronomist on the UK's largest sugar beet unit. There is a larger grower for AD but we do around 1000 ha of beet. We have...
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SSkater replied to the thread Potato Price Tracker.In theory that is better. I does depend though Later drilling and a TIGHT SEEDBED
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SSkater replied to the thread Potato Price Tracker.Depends when the grass is killed and ploughed down. Most comments on this are using very old data from WWII but if you glyphosate grass...
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SSkater replied to the thread Potato Price Tracker.Dont know which species you are talking about but the main pest species in the UK belong to the genus Agriotes and the life cycle is...
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworm In Potatoes.This was Metarhizium, I got it identified as it was submitted as part of the Enigma project
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworms in grass reseeds.If you plough between May and September then you would reduce the population that was hatching that year. Ploughing in spring when the...
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworms in grass reseeds.It depends when you plough. Larger larvae will usually survive some pretty intensive cultivation. I have bait trapped plenty within a...
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworm In Potatoes.I have seen so many issues where no grass certainly since before WWII done agronomy on there about 40 years, they plough, regularly and...
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworm In Potatoes.will be interesting can advise on monitoring
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SLocal grower has got potatoes on some land that has been PP for best part of 50 years. Not particularly well managed either- left to go...
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SWe lost a 20 acre field to wireworm last year it hadn’t been grass in fifty years and the ph is at least 8 or above .
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworm In Potatoes.I have seen very bad damage where Nemathorin has been used. It does reduce it, but you could achieve that level of reduction by...
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SSkater replied to the thread Wireworm In Potatoes.Thanks I can see where you are coming from now. Its a different concept to trap crops for PCN. I saw Bob Vernon did work in strawberries...
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STrap crops draw pests away from the main crop. Or they can sometimes be used to disrupt lifecycles. An example is here...
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