Emergency authorisation for woolly aphid control
CRD has issued an emergency 120-day authorisation for the use of Bayer insecticide Movento Top…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Sclerotinia alert in oilseed rape
Varied establishment of oilseed rape (OSR) crops last Autumn, is likely to have resulted in…
Leading Irish R&D company commits to UK agriculture despite Brexit uncertainty
Despite uncertainty in how UK agriculture will fare in the lead up to and post-Brexit,…
SCEPTREplus announces crop trial priorities
Crop trial priorities for the first year of AHDB’s £1.4 million SCEPTREplus project have been…
Know your onions
Maya – the gentle but effective suspension concentrate formulation of bromoxynil – has a label…
Gregoire Besson and Sulky Burel collaborate for UK market
Cultivation equipment manufacturer Gregoire Besson and seeding and fertilisation equipment manufacturer Sulky Burel have restructured…
New wheat genome sequence assembly is most accurate and complete ever
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute,…
Bee “bed and breakfast” gets helping hand from science
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are digging into the soil around alfalfa fields near…
Regional variation in disease pressures
With April and May being the high-risk months for Septoria and rust development, vigilance now…
Mentor only variety on 2017/18 RL for East/West and North resistant to common strains of clubroot
Clubroot is an increasing problem in oilseed rape crops throughout the UK, and has been…