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The cool, dry April has slowed crop growth, disease development and T1 fungicide applications. CPM joins the Crop Doctors as they get back out into the field to see how different varieties have fared at Cawood, Long Sutton, Callow and Great Tew. There’s a lot of leaf death and it’s damage that’s completely unrelated to disease. By Lucy de la Pasture As the country begins to open up after lockdown, the Crop Doctors are able to get back out into the field to assess the Bayer regional trials sites, albeit not as their usual double act. SRUC’s Prof Fiona Burnett visits Cawood in North Yorkshire and Long Sutton in Lincolnshire on 27 April, while ADAS’s Jonathan Blake reports from the Callow site in Herefordshire and the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire on the second day of the tour. Nowt brewing in Yorks At the end of March the Crop Doctors gave the winter wheat and barley sites at Cawood an almost clean bill of health. The prolonged dry period in April means very little has changed on the disease front but the soil is now visibly cracked, more reminiscent of June than April, and both wheat and barley are…
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