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A crystal ball would be a useful tool to help make PGR decisions, but growers can now get a degree of foresight into the best PGR programme for different varieties using a new web-based decision support tool from Syngenta. CPM meets the scientist behind the variety trials and takes a peek at ‘Inspire’. Each variety’s characteristics will make it more or less susceptible to stem and/or root lodging. By Lucy de la Pasture Although the AHDB Recommended List produces lodging ratings for each variety, there’s no way of distinguishing their susceptibility to the different causes of lodging. Syngenta have developed a web-based decision support tool, ready for this spring, to help tailor PGR efforts at the right timings for each variety to best protect it from lodging. The unique capabilities of the tool, named Inspire, are based on years of variety-specific research which has been carried out at Harper Adams University. Cereal lodging expert Dr Mitch Crook has been conducting the trials for Sygnenta for a number of years. Lodging is likely to be uppermost in many growers’ minds this spring after last season, he says, when a dry spring turned into a dodgy summer with lodging a common problem.…
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