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Getting winter barley off to a healthy start
With the winter barley harvest in Scotland almost complete, planning for the 2019 crop begins. Selecting seed of a good health status has always been important but emerging issues with…
Read More >Cereal Trials Open Evening: Lanarkshire – Post-event summary
The FAS Lanarkshire crops trials open evening was recently held at Drumalbin farm. In a marked change from last years weather sunglasses and sunscreen were the order of the day…
Read More >Managing the risk of tuber blight in 2018
There have still been no confirmed cases of blight in Scotland this year – and very few throughout the whole of the UK. Prolonged dry conditions have helped in that…
Read More >Prolonged dry spell – what can be done?
We’ve had calls from across the country for what can be done in the face of the continued dry weather. We asked a few experts for their advice: David Lawson,…
Read More >Cereal Trials Open Evening, East Lothian – Post-event summary
The East Lothian Cereal Trials Open Evening was held in glorious sunshine recently at Cauldshiel. The theme of the event this year was on making the most of home markets…
Read More >Managing the risk of ear diseases in cereals
There are three grades of ear disease in cereals to worry about – those that can strip yield and cause food safety issues like fusarium, those that can strip yield…
Read More >The challenge of managing spring barley disease in 2018
After a late start to the season, spring barley crops are growing rapidly. Disease management needs in a shortened season can be hard to judge. Late season green leaf retention…
Read More >Leatherjacket risk high for second year in a row
Leatherjacket is the name given to the grubs of the crane fly or “daddy-long-legs”. They live just below soil level and each year eat the roots of grasses and other…
Read More >Oilseed rape sclerotinia management
Oilseed rape will start to pull away rapidly now that spring finally seems to have arrived and, in Scotland’s often tight oilseed rape rotations, sclerotinia risk will be important when…
Read More >Using thresholds to determine which crops are at risk from pollen beetles
Once crops are at green-yellow bud, there is a risk from pollen beetle damage to the buds, giving rise to blind-stalks with no flowers or pods forming on them. Pollen…
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