Incorporating the 'T-sheep' timing into your fungicide programme

With forward cereal crops and the potential of creeping disease pressures, we find out how grazing sheep could gain growers both time and control before chemical options become available in the spring

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Head of Arable
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Incorporating the 'T-sheep' timing into your fungicide programme

Higher disease pressure, earlier crops and thicker canopies are combining to create a potential high foliar disease year in UK cereal crops. This combination means that 2026 could be a year where growers...

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