Shropshire potato grower joins AHDB Farm Excellence Platform
Shropshire-based Heal Farms has become the latest addition to AHDB’s Strategic Potato (SPot) Farm family.…
Browsing: Crops
Early flag leaf emergence creates spring fungicide challenge
Signs of flag leaves emerging almost a month earlier than normal in some southern wheat…
Sclerotinia risk not just confined to forward crops
OSR plots tested in Herefordshire, Wales and the south west have revealed that between 80-100%…
Maize variety choices for 2017
Hutchinsons has seen a continued increase in the amount of maize now being grown within…
Emergency authorisation for woolly aphid control
CRD has issued an emergency 120-day authorisation for the use of Bayer insecticide Movento Top…
Sclerotinia alert in oilseed rape
Varied establishment of oilseed rape (OSR) crops last Autumn, is likely to have resulted in…
SCEPTREplus announces crop trial priorities
Crop trial priorities for the first year of AHDB’s £1.4 million SCEPTREplus project have been…
Know your onions
Maya – the gentle but effective suspension concentrate formulation of bromoxynil – has a label…
New wheat genome sequence assembly is most accurate and complete ever
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, working in partnership with colleagues at the Earlham Institute,…
Regional variation in disease pressures
With April and May being the high-risk months for Septoria and rust development, vigilance now…