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The 2019 AHDB Agronomists Conference was billed as ‘the conference that would change the way delegates thought about agronomy’. CPM was there to find out if it will. The environment is even more important than it’s ever been. By Lucy de la Pasture Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a concept that’s been around for a couple of decades but embracing it fully has probably never been more important to British agriculture than it is now, was the view of arable farmer and chair of the NFU combinable crops board, Tom Bradshaw, who was speaking at AHDB’s annual Agronomists Conference, held in Leicester last Dec. He told delegates that the challenges facing agriculture were very real – with continuing loss of active ingredients, increasing resistance and the public perception of plant protection products all to contend with. Grain aphids are the more dangerous of the two species that carry BYDV as they can remain in cereal crops throughout their lifecycle. “Looking at data from the Pesticide Usage Survey (PUS), the area being treated with pesticides is on the rise. The weight of pesticide applied has fallen dramatically and continued to trend downwards. But if you take out sulphuric acid, which…
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