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Peach-potato aphid migration begins
The AHDB’s Aphid News’ latest bulletin reports that numbers of peach-potato aphids (Myzus persicae) have risen significantly over the last…
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Emergency approval granted for Cuprokylt
A breakthrough emergency authorisation for Cuprokylt® provides the only fungicide available to organic potato growers for the control of late…
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Timely advice for Farm Safety week
Ahead of Farm Safety Week, taking place this week, hand surgeon Jill Arrowsmith, member of British Society for Surgery of…
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Farm Business looks at labour crisis
Agriculture is already reaching ‘crisis point’ when it comes to labour availability, before we even leave the EU, EFRA chair…
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PGRO releases a ‘blueprint for uk pulses in a post-brexit world’
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has today released a “Blueprint for UK Pulses in a post-Brexit world’ to…
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Sercadis – the most powerful SDHI fungicide has a new EAMU in grapevines
Sercadis the most powerful SDHI fungicide, Xemium, can now be used in grapevines for the control of powdery mildew under…
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Early PGRs help wheat beat disease and build yield
Early application of plant growth regulators could have worthwhile benefits for disease control and rooting in wheat crops this spring,…
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Another blow to fungal infection
For the first time, researchers have isolated a natural resistance gene to Septoria, Europe’s most economically damaging wheat disease and…
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Education and training at the forefront of Cereals 2018
The nature of farming is changing. Farmers are under increasing pressure to produce more with less – and that demands…
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Maths for midges that pull 10g
Predicting the dispersal of airborne pests to protect crops demands an understanding of complex swarm dynamics that a simple mathematical…