Crop protection

Despite a rough season for sugar beet following drought, virus yellows and foliar disease outbreaks, an improvement in the weather means there is still potential to add yield.

The number of frosts that a wheat crop sees each winter could help growers make smarter fungicide choices when it comes to yellow rust, a study has found.

A five-year project looking at the agronomic factors effecting septoria found that sowing date had more of an influence on disease levels than varietal resistance.

UK farmers should be able to access new crop protection products quicker than their EU counterparts post-Brexit, the chief executive of the Crop Protection Association (CPA) has said.

With new single site chemistry en route to market, the industry needs to be mindful of product stewardship, Jonathan Blake told the BCPC Review audience.

With rotations being turned on their head following the hit and miss 2019/20 drilling campaign, some crops may now be at greater risk of the soilborne disease, take-all.

A temporary Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) for the sprout inhibitor, chlorpropham (CIPC) has been given approval.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly awarded to two women for the development of a method of genome editing used in animal and plant science.

Withdrawal dates for the tuber fungicide treatment, penflufen found in Bayer’s Emesto Prime DS have been announced by the Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD).

With 2021 set to usher in a new era of change to trading arrangements, farm support and crop protection regulation, how will Brexit affect the cereals sector?