With winter wheat crops a real mixed bag, disease management will be tricky. Adam Clarke asks agronomists around the regions for their assessment of disease risk and advice on how to counter the threat in the current season…
Writing in Crop Production Magazine, Nick Wall discusses winter wheat fungicide options.
“There’s plenty of septoria on the oldest leaves, but I’m yet to find rust. Mildew could be a big problem on small crops and could also establish quickly on lush growth if crops grow away quickly after a prolonged cold spell.
A three-spray approach can pay on spring barley – Mar 2013
The spring barley area in Mark Glyde’s Hampshire/Wiltshire/West Sussex core area is set to increase by about 30% this spring.
There has been an unprecedented number of late drilled crops this year, many of which are backwards and will need a big effort to pull them out of the winter.
Richard Cromie – Farmers Weekly Video Crop Doctor: Petersfield, Hampshire
Finding the best fungicide programme for wheat
It is the age-old question: what’s the best fungicide programme for your wheat this season? And not one that gets any easier to answer.
Calculating gross margins for varieties aids selection
Next month will see the publication of the 2012-13 HGCA Recommended List. Louise Impey looks at how one agronomist uses the data to calculate gross margins for individual wheat varieties to aid variety selection.
