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Sometimes crops need a helping hand to get through their most vulnerable stages when growth relies on a small solar panel and a delicate root system. CPM looks at ways of achieving this. Insects are only attracted to unhealthy plants because they’re more digestible. By Lucy de la Pasture Getting crops off to a good start in the autumn is always a key objective for growers and agronomists. Healthy plants with larger root systems are more resilient when conditions become unfavourable and better able to shrug off pest and disease attacks. The loss of neonics in both autumn cereals and oilseed rape has created a whole new set of pest challenges. Culturally, a move to later drilling is suggested as being the best way to reduce the impact of both BYDV in cereals and cabbage stem flea beetle larvae in OSR. But is there more that can be done agronomically, by influencing the health of the plant itself? The functional immunity of plants is something that’s seldom talked about in farming, but it’s a real phenomenon and something growers can tap into to mitigate the effects of pest and disease attacks, according to US entomologist, Dr Tom Dykstra.…
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