There will be no one-size-fits-all approach to T1 and T2 fungicide applications in 2024. The seemingly never-ending rain has seen to that.
Instead, we expect to see wheat growers across the UK and Ireland to make their product and rate choices on a field-by-field basis depending on their...
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Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring.
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Boots on the ground indicate...
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AHDB Fungicide Performance trials provide farmers and agronomists with key information to help decision making. CPM looks at both the project’s history and latest results.
By Mike Abram
From mostly forgotten fungicides such as Bayfidan...
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Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring.
By Melanie Jenkins
Boots on the ground indicate...
Something to watch!
Looks like glyphosate is being banned as a desiccant for milling oats in Europe, not here at the moment but I suspect it might happen.
Is there anything left in the arsenal to desiccate uneven crops?
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Given the highly variable field conditions across the country, devising an effective spring fungicide programme may feel like an insurmountable feat. Although it’s difficult to predict impending disease pressure with so many unknowns, CPM...
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Traditionally, phoma stem canker has been deemed a southern oilseed rape disease and light leaf spot a northern one, but evidence suggests these diseases are migrating. CPM digs deeper to find out what’s happening.
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Winter hybrid rye SU Arvid posts excellent harvest results for Norfolk grower seeking higher gas yielding variety for AD contract
Of the 50,000ha of hybrid rye currently grown in the UK, wholecrop for biogas production is still the biggest single market, accounting for around half the UK crop...
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The arrival of a new disease challenge in sugar beet has highlighted a gap in variety disease resistance information and has caused a rethink of fungicide strategies. CPM finds out more about the cercospora and how to control it.
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Ahead of a seventh season of Real Results, CPM looks back at how the circle of growers was formed and how the on-farm trials have provided insights to fungicide use, aiding decision-making in real-life scenarios.
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After successive years where March has seen the ground begin to dry out after the winter downpours, 2023 appears to have bucked the trend. CPM met up with the Bayer Crop Doctor team to survey sites around the country and get a feel for the...
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Agronomy business ProCam has called for growers to maximise oil content to optimise bonuses paid on top of yield despite the falling of UK oilseed rape (OSR) from the previous £600/t.
ProCam agronomist Daniel Hatchett said, if an oil bonus pays...
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The early bird catches the worm – so the saying goes, and this is no truer than when applied to getting ahead of disease in cereal crops. CPM explores how targeted early season agronomy can make all the difference.
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After careful consideration of what was a knee-jerk reaction, a last-minute alternative to oilseed rape provides food for thought for a North Lincolnshire grower. CPM reports
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A knee-jerk reaction to grow winter barley when...
The risk from both diseases is relatively high following a milder than average winter and a significant area of crops sown early into good conditions last autumn, the firm’s technical development director, Dr David Ellerton says.
“Overall, there are plenty of good, lush, early-sown wheat crops...
Spraying opportunities are often limited in spring, so identifying fields to prioritise for treatment is key to effective disease control, according to Hutchinsons head of integrated crop management (ICM), Dave Howard.
“Omnia’s wheat disease risk forecasting model is a valuable tool to help do...
Fungicide resistance management: Maximising the effective life of plant protection products
15 Dec 2021
NIAB’s Nichola Hawkins explains all about her recent paper, published with fellow NIAB staff member Bart Fraaije and Isabel Corkley from ADAS:
The problem of antibiotic resistant infections...
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April is the month when winter barley crops develop the fastest and the demand for plant nutrition is at its highest.
Depending on the total amount of nitrogen (N) to be used, growers should make sure that they apply the last split before Growth Stage...
Act early to stop yellow rust and Septoria
Early action will be key to preventing yellow rust and Septoria gaining a foothold in crops as we enter the main spring growing period, according to leading agronomy firm Hutchinsons.
The risk from both diseases is relatively high following a milder...
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