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Ramularia update
Ramularia leaf spotting can be a major cause of early leaf death in Scottish barley, with associated yield and quality losses. As it is a relatively new disease most winter…
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Winter beans and their diseases
Winter beans usually produce strong vigorous plans and can be so healthy and green that late season chocolate spot caused by botrytis is almost welcome or they might stay green…
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Wet summer raises risk of potato storage rots
It has been said before that potatoes are not so much a crop but rather just a large collection of diseases and problems. The number of serious pests and diseases to which the crop is susceptible makes a depressing roll call and it is only due to the highly skilled nature of producers that these risks are sufficiently managed and contained to deliver the Scottish crop.
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Integrated Crop Management Roadshow: Perth – Event Summary
Integrated Crop Management – a more holistic approach that can benefit your farm yields The Perth & Angus event of this roadshow was held at the Huntingtower Hotel during December. …
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Update of fungicide efficacy and resistance
Commercially, and in field trials, cereal fungicide programmes were pretty effective in 2017 and yield responses to fungicides reasonable but the dry spring did much to keep a lid on…
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Integrated Crop Management & New Tech (Lothians) – Event Summary
The principles of Integrated Crop Management, it’s importance and how it can be implemented was the focus of this recent meeting in Kirknewton. This is a summary of what was…
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Rhynchosporium leaf scald in barley
Rhynchosporium is a disease that is so common in our barley crops that it is probably assumed that we know everything there is to know about it. But it is a…
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More changes in yellow rust in wheat
Yellow rust is one of those wheat diseases that, once experienced, is never forgotten. Severe infections strip green leaf away almost like a herbicide and decimate yield – badly affected…
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Improving Crop Health & Business Resilience (Lanark) – event summary
It is becoming increasingly challenging for cereal growers faced with unpredictable weather, loss of chemistry and new and increasing disease threats. This has been shown this year with the explosion…
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Cereal Trials Open Evening: Improving Crop Health & Business Resilience – event summary
The SFAS crop health and business resilience event highlighted a positive outlook for grain markets, promising new varieties for wheat and barley, declines in disease sensitivity to some fungicides, changes…
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