Agrovista advises that those who have opted for the no insecticide SFI option, the use of one might be a wise decision this autumn. Many farmers who have taken the payment will be loath to spray insecticides but with widespread reports of aphids, gout flies and increasingly leafhoppers being spotted in cereal crops from emergence, economically it could be the right decision, suggests Agrovista’s Lewis Butlin. “SFI guidance states that where growers have C/IPM4 in place, should they need to spray insecticides to prevent a financial loss, growers should do so at the earliest opportunity. Given the high risk of…