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Cool, wet weather suits zoospore production and increases tuber blight risk
The current period of cool and wet weather not only favours the production of foliar blight but also offers ideal conditions for the production of…
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Brassica quality is the goal
Vegetable growers know that they must grow the highest quality produce for the supermarkets and that means making sure that disfiguring and yield…
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New 'Wheat Tracker' contract aims to boost viability of herbage seed as alternative cropping option
A new "wheat tracker" contract for the major IGER-bred agricultural perennial ryegrasses should provide an added incentive for farmers to grow…
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Two sprays better than one for sugar beet
Disease control is essential for new higher yielding sugar beet varieties to meet their yield potential, and with growers looking to boost late…
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Weather challenges farmers’ harvest
Farmers across the East Midlands are counting the costs of the floods as further rain threatens this weekend, adding to the record rainfall of May…
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Es Betty is looking good in the North
A fifty acre field of the hybrid winter oilseed rape variety, Es Betty is described as the best looking rape on the farm, by farmer John Spence of…
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Managing mildew – an essential need for sugar beet fungicide programmes this year
Powdery mildew is by far the most yield damaging disease in sugar beet, causing up to 20% yield loss. It adversely affects yield by draining the…
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The low biomass rape, Es Astrid offers greater profit opportunities
The professional farming company, Sentry Ltd who farm 18,000 hectares across the UK are always looking at ways of managing their crops carefully and…
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CabCards - It pays to do everything it says on the card
Fields are no longer just fields they have become a complex mix of crop production, conservation and environmental protection. Add to this list…
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New initiative brings Tesco and local farmer together
Consumers in Edinburgh are set to become the first to benefit from Greenvale AP and Tesco Scotland's new initiative, which will see new season…
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