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Download PDF Following two visits across UK trials sites with Bayer’s Crop Doctors last season, CPM finds out how observed disease levels shaped up and what these mean for this year’s programmes. It was a late season in terms of disease which really kicked off with the wet start to June. By Rob Jones When the Crop Doctor team took to the skies during March and April last season, disease levels didn’t give any serious concern. Septoria was largely restricted to the base of plants and yellow rust and eyespot were found at varying levels but nothing to cause alarm, according to specialists assessing the trial plots at four locations across the UK. But it became a season that proved how quickly the disease threat can change, especially septoria. So with assessments and harvest data now received from the four sites, how did the varieties across the UK fare? Late rain events last year meant septoria levels ‘exploded’ across the four sites visited. Long Sutton, Lincs Showers around the middle of May started things moving at the fenland site, hosted at GH Hoyles and Son, and this was then aggravated by downpours in early June –202mm of rain fell in…
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