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Download PDF Decent diagnosis of in-field issues ensures the right product is applied in the right place at the right time. CPM reports on the progressive growers and agronomists helping to refine the techniques. You can’t actually see any disease, so it’s useful to know what’s there in its latent phase. By Tom Allen-Stevens James Mayes confesses he has a little trepidation for what the season holds for his wheat crop. He manages 800ha of combinable crops for Sentry at Bentfield Bury Farms, near Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. The wheats are all Group 1 quality types with KWS Zyatt and Skyfall in the rotation, and there’s one field grown as a blend of the two this year as a trial. the Sentry group gathers twice a year – just before harvest and again in Nov or Dec, when they take a close look at the YEN reports. It’s the prospect of managing disease with a reduced armoury that’s giving him pause for thought, however. “We know we have to stay in the protectant zone, and that’s rarely been a problem. But last spring we had chlorothalonil and disease levels were very low. This year could be an entirely different animal, and…
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