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Weather making spray timing ‘challenging’

“It is essential that mycotoxin risk assessments are carried out for all wheat entering the food chain” The rainfall over recent weeks started out as a welcome relief to earlier…

Potato blight starts to fight dirty

The challenges in managing potato blight have always been the main focus on in-season fungicide programmes for potato growers. As a mobile and aggressive pathogen, it has readily adapted itself…

Spring barley disease management tailored to 2019

Spring barley this year is coping with some stressful conditions – since brairding temperatures have rocked between summer highs of 20oC plus and single digit lows and some drying winds.…

Maintaining Scotland’s high health status for potatoes

New pest and disease threats and pesticide losses through legislation and resistance development are cross cutting issues across all our crops at the moment and potatoes are no exception. Our…

Crop health update: Barley disease management

Barley is building up a whole host of fungicide resistance issue with rhynchosporium, net blotch and loose smut all showing shifts in recent seasons. The better news is that when…

Argyll Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary

Setting Priorities for Management of Your Soils This was the second meeting of the Argyll Soil & Nutrient Network and the topics for discussion were soil nutrients, drainage, rush control…

Crop health update: Post-metaldehyde slug management

Defra recently announced a ban on metaldehyde use for outdoor use from spring 2020, as a consequence of long standing concerns over it getting into drinking water.

Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary

This was the second meeting of the Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network and the focus this time was on counting the value of slurry Elaine Watt, SAC Consulting, led the second…

East Lothian & Berwickshire Soil & Nutrient Network Farm: 2nd meeting event summary

This was the second meeting of the East Lothian & Berwickshire Soil & Nutrient Network and the focus was on ‘soil organic matter and organic manures’. Donald Dunbar, SAC Consulting,…