Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Download PDF The 2022/23 AHDB Recommended List sees a whopping 37 new varieties added across wheat, barley, oilseed rape and oats. CPM attended the launch to find out more. Specialist traits are more important as growers look to adopt IPM. By Charlotte Cunningham With an industry push to adopt integrated pest management (PM) strategies on farm, specialist traits within some of this year’s recommended varieties could play a key role in helping growers do just that. That’s the view of Paul Gosling who manages the AHDB Recommended List (RL), who gave detail on the 37 new varieties added to the 2022/23 RL at the end of last month. Following a few difficult years for trials, good conditions last autumn saw the majority of trials establish well, explains Paul. “It made a nice change from recent years. Winter oilseed rape in particular suffered much less from drought and cabbage stem flea beetle than of late, which largely mirrored what was seen in the field in commercial situations. In fact, we had our best set of trials across the country since 2015. “Unfortunately, however, that has prevented us from testing a new protocol we’ve put together to measure varietal resistance to larval…
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Download PDF The 2022/23 AHDB Recommended List sees a whopping 37 new varieties added across wheat, barley, oilseed rape and oats. CPM attended the launch to find out more. Specialist traits are more important as growers look to adopt IPM. By Charlotte Cunningham With an industry push to adopt integrated pest management (PM) strategies on farm, specialist traits within some of this year’s recommended varieties could play a key role in helping growers do just that. That’s the view of Paul Gosling who manages the AHDB Recommended List (RL), who gave detail on the 37 new varieties added to the 2022/23 RL at the end of last month. Following a few difficult years for trials, good conditions last autumn saw the majority of trials establish well, explains Paul. “It made a nice change from recent years. Winter oilseed rape in particular suffered much less from drought and cabbage stem flea beetle than of late, which largely mirrored what was seen in the field in commercial situations. In fact, we had our best set of trials across the country since 2015. “Unfortunately, however, that has prevented us from testing a new protocol we’ve put together to measure varietal resistance to larval…
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