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Download PDF Disease control was a mixed bag last season, with a late influx of septoria catching some growers with their trousers down. CPM joins a roundtable discussion hosted by Bayer to find out what went right and what went wrong. This year NIAB will be working off both the one-year AHDB RL ratings for varieties. By Lucy de la Pasture Whether there’s any such thing as a normal season in the UK’s volatile maritime climate is a matter for debate, but last spring was an outlier by any standards. A second wet but cool winter was followed by a very slow, dry spring, with frosts throughout April when crops would normally be beginning to rip through their growth stages. Most crops appeared remarkably clean as leaf three emerged, backed up by the emerging science of rapid disease tests which seemed to indicate that there wasn’t too much to worry about – sampling of leaves three and four were? coming back with zero or very low levels of septoria DNA. Latent disease wasn’t brewing and that led to a widespread assumption that no nasty surprises were round the corner. Some growers took their chances and cut fungicide rates or forwent…
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Download PDF Disease control was a mixed bag last season, with a late influx of septoria catching some growers with their trousers down. CPM joins a roundtable discussion hosted by Bayer to find out what went right and what went wrong. This year NIAB will be working off both the one-year AHDB RL ratings for varieties. By Lucy de la Pasture Whether there’s any such thing as a normal season in the UK’s volatile maritime climate is a matter for debate, but last spring was an outlier by any standards. A second wet but cool winter was followed by a very slow, dry spring, with frosts throughout April when crops would normally be beginning to rip through their growth stages. Most crops appeared remarkably clean as leaf three emerged, backed up by the emerging science of rapid disease tests which seemed to indicate that there wasn’t too much to worry about – sampling of leaves three and four were? coming back with zero or very low levels of septoria DNA. Latent disease wasn’t brewing and that led to a widespread assumption that no nasty surprises were round the corner. Some growers took their chances and cut fungicide rates or forwent…
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