Sponsored: 2023 – the year for chocolate spot?
Early drilling and cool, wet weather in spring both increase susceptibility to one of the…
Browsing: disease
New BYDV treatment available as risk rises
An unseasonably early harvest and record-breaking temperatures have increased the risk of yield loss from…
Those with a black-grass burden shouldn’t rush to drill winter wheat, warns crop production specialist
ProCam’s head of crop production, Mike Thornton, explains why farmers with a known black-grass burden shouldn’t bring…
Scottish Government funding will continue the Fight Against Blight in 2022
The Fight Against Blight (FAB) campaign will continue this year, thanks to funding from the Scottish…
Advice for maize growers: harvest early before too much crop is lost to the heat and drought
The independent silage and microbiologist Dr David Davies is telling maize growers that ‘waiting until…
Bayer receives regulatory authorisation for the use of Caligula in sugar beet crops
Bayer Crop Science’s foliar fungicide Caligula has been authorised by the Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD)…
Simple and rapid OSR light leaf spot test to be available from September
The bio-tech company Microgenetics has developed the SwiftDetect light leaf spot disease for oilseed rape…
High disease pressure for cereals and potatoes across the UK
With disease pressure high and the crop protection programme for cereals concluded, yet another challenging…