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As flag leaves begin to emerge across the country, Crop Doctor travels from west to east to assess disease progression or the lack of it. CPM joins the experts to explore the implications of the cool, wet May on fungicide programmes. The potential ‘googly’ this season may be grain fill due to later than normal ear emergence. By Lucy de la Pasture Farming folklore suggests a cold, wet May brings a barnful of hay (or grain) and it certainly was cooler than average and, in contrast to April, it was much wetter than the norm. On 25 and 26 May, the Bayer ‘Crop Doctor’ team made a slightly abbreviated tour across regions to find out how wheat varieties were looking and how the continued unseasonal weather was affecting disease development. Cold at Callow A cold north-westerly was blowing across the slopes at Bayer’s Callow trial site in Herefordshire. With ADAS’s Jonathan Blake, local AICC agronomist David Lines and Bayer’s commercial technical manager (CTM) Gareth Bubb wrapped up in clothing more suited to a winter’s day, it’s fair to say the plots look well, in spite of the weather. Jonathan Blake says that in many ways the odd spring has…
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