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Download PDF The whole world has become very aware of the threat viruses can pose in recent years, including in 2020 when virus yellows pulled no punches. BBRO updates growers on the fast-growing body of knowledge about this decimating disease at its recent BeetTech event. CPM reports. Three years of data indicates BChV is more common in the UK, which is interesting because it had previously been thought that BMYV was predominant. By Lucy de la Pasture The relatively mild winter probably means a lot of sugar beet growers put a tick in the Cruiser (thiamethoxam) box on their seed order in the hope that the derogation for the seed treatment will be triggered. Speaking at the recent BeetTech meeting in Newark, Prof Mark Stevens describes virus yellows as the forgotten disease. That was until 2020, when the menace it can be in beet crops was brought home in the most visual of ways and the resulting yield losses started to make sugar beet look like a very unattractive crop to grow. One year on, a very different winter killed off over-wintering aphids in the months leading up to sugar beet planting in 2021, explains Mark. “We had five cold…
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Download PDF The whole world has become very aware of the threat viruses can pose in recent years, including in 2020 when virus yellows pulled no punches. BBRO updates growers on the fast-growing body of knowledge about this decimating disease at its recent BeetTech event. CPM reports. Three years of data indicates BChV is more common in the UK, which is interesting because it had previously been thought that BMYV was predominant. By Lucy de la Pasture The relatively mild winter probably means a lot of sugar beet growers put a tick in the Cruiser (thiamethoxam) box on their seed order in the hope that the derogation for the seed treatment will be triggered. Speaking at the recent BeetTech meeting in Newark, Prof Mark Stevens describes virus yellows as the forgotten disease. That was until 2020, when the menace it can be in beet crops was brought home in the most visual of ways and the resulting yield losses started to make sugar beet look like a very unattractive crop to grow. One year on, a very different winter killed off over-wintering aphids in the months leading up to sugar beet planting in 2021, explains Mark. “We had five cold…
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