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Download PDF As crops put on spring growth, many will have their first fungicide at the T1 timing. CPM joins the Crop Doctors on a virtual tour as they consider the implications. You need nerves of steel to the point of foolishness not to treat. By Tom Allen-Stevens Every year, Crop Doctors Jonathan Blake of ADAS and SRUC’s Prof Fiona Burnett have taken a whistle-stop tour of four trial sites in Herefordshire, Lincs, Yorks and Oxon to get a unique snapshot of disease across England. With the country still in lockdown, it was a virtual tour that took place on 30 March, during which the picture on pathogens became clear. The Callow “complex” The fertile soil of Bayer’s trial site at Callow, Herefordshire, drilled 30 Sept, has taken a pounding through the winter, with above average rainfall in October, December and January, reports commercial technical manager Gareth Bubb. “The plots had been looking pretty sorry for themselves, although growth is now (29 March) picking up, with leaf four emerging. KWS Extase especially is picking up pace, although KWS Barrel is still flat to the floor and way behind. Skyscraper is looking dirty, Theodore noticeably cleaner and Costello not too bad…
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