Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Following the unmitigated wash-out of Autumn 2019 and the elevated importance of spring sown crops this year, Adama has launched an online crop protection portal to help growers tackle upcoming challenges. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Containing a wealth of information regarding the protection of wheat and barley against diseases such as Septoria, rhynchosporium and ramularia, the new online guide also focuses on the importance of multi-site fungicides – not only to provide effective crop protection, but also to prolong the effectual lifetime of resistance susceptible single-site modes of action. The portal also provides useful strategic advice for managing the increased area of spring sown crops in what is expected to be an extra-ordinary year in terms of cropping strategies, says Adama. “In comparison to typical rotations, the current cropping cycle will undoubtedly contain a much higher proportion of spring sown cereals, pulses, oats and other crops,” explains Abbie Bieny, digital marketing specialist at Adama. “At the same time, the loss of key fungicide actives to regulatory resistrictions and the erosion in efficacy of many ‘single-site’ azole, SDHI and strobilurin fungicides by mounting disease resistance, means arable growers are potentially facing one of their most challenging years in recent history. “We have therefore…
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