Written by Charlotte Cunningham
AHDB has strengthened its cereal disease management guidance for 2020 with a range of new tools, videos, web pages and publications. Charlotte Cunningham reports. This announcement follows the move of cereals and oilseeds information to a new website, which will cover all content generated by AHDB: ahdb.org.uk AHDB has also announced plans to update the industry on the status of the UK’s cereal pathogen populations. The AHDB Wheat and barley disease management guide and associated web pages are major new resources. Together, they provide the in-depth information required to tackle major cereal diseases through integrated pest management (IPM). Complementing the popular AHDB Encyclopaedia of cereal diseases, the new guidance highlights disease risk factors and provides at-a-glance management solutions. Target disease web pages dive deeper and explore hosts, life cycles and symptoms. The pages also bring together developments on non-chemical and chemical control, including fungicide performance data and tips on designing fungicide programmes. Digital solutions Catherine Harries, who manages disease research at AHDB, says: “Our industry embraces digital solutions. In the fast-paced world of crop protection, this is good news. When chemistry is lost, fungicide resistance rears its head or varietal resistance is overcome, we can adapt our guidance accordingly.” The AHDB…
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