8 February 2018 Macron backtracks on glyphosate President Emmanuel Macron said that France will exempt farmers from a glyphosate ban if there…
8 February 2018 First report in decades of a forgotten crop pathogen Scientists, breeders, farmers and conservation groups must continue to work in close collaboration to prepare…
6 February 2018 Collaborative project to improve forecasting of UK’s most important potato pest A team of Harper Adams University researchers; Dr Matthew Back, Dr Ivan Grove and Bill…
5 February 2018 Another resistance, this time rodenticides, for farmers to deal with Just when farmers are getting the hang of rodenticide stewardship rules, introduced mid-2016, a new…
5 February 2018 Top tips to manage fungicide resistance in septoria Top management tips to help slow fungicide resistance in septoria have been issued as part…
5 February 2018 More consistent vine weevil control from the high quality formulation, Nemasys L New experimental work has confirmed that Nemasys L (Steinernema kraussei) provides better control of black…
5 February 2018 Alternative spring barley treatment option key to controlling seed-borne diseases Spring barley growers will be turning to new single purpose seed treatments in future following…
1 February 2018 New tuber treatment from Bayer At its annual potato agronomists’ conference on 25th January, Bayer launched a new tuber treatment…
26 January 2018 Adama reveals its strengthened crop protection portfolio Adama Agricultural Solutions UK Ltd (“Adama”) has today announced the addition of 14 new fungicides,…
26 January 2018 Managing septoria in wheat: prevention is better than cure With the choice, scope and efficacy of curative fungicides coming under increasing pressure – both…