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Methiocarb halts the march of Leatherjackets
With reports of high infestations of leatherjackets on several farms across the country, Dr Bill Lankford of Bayer CropScience reinforces the message…
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Burst of cereal growth could spell increased lodging risk
DON'T get caught out by heightened cereal lodging risks with the return to rapid crop growth brought on by warmer weather, urges Syngenta technical…
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Importance of controlling blight and managing resistance
Potato growers and advisors cannot afford to be complacent about controlling potato blight, nor about the need to manage the risk of fungicide…
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Beet Crop safely drilled – and rhizomania free?
For the first time this year there is a substantial amount of the sugar beet crop drilled down to rhizomania resistant varieties. Not only do these…
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Investing in the pea and bean crop
BASF are continuing to invest in the pea and bean crop with four new fungicide approvals announced last year and one new herbicide scheduled for…
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First ever varietal ranking will help potato growers combat arable wireworm
New work at Scottish Agronomy and SCRI is starting to establish the first ever ranking of potato varieties' susceptibility to wireworm feeding damage…
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29,000 tonnes of UK wheat bound for Spain
In what has been a very difficult season for exports a 30,000 tonne vessel will be at Immingham docks in Lincolnshire on Monday (3rd April) loading…
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SAC Warns Growers to Keep Dose Rates up and get T-timings right
Wheat fungicide trials conducted by the SAC in 2005 demonstrated plenty of evidence to suggest that fungicide dose rates need to be kept up and that…
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‘Three peel and out’ consigns potatoes to waste
Wireworm populations are on the increase and causing high levels of damage to potato crops. A survey of growers using the Nemathorin Pheromone Traps…
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Demand for Troon grows as Scots whisky giant boosts intake
Exceptional processability and good alcohol yield has prompted Scotland's largest whisky producer, Diageo, to increase their intake of Troon spring…
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