Crops and soils
Pests, weeds and diseases are a constant threat to the yield and quality of crops produced in Scotland. They decrease the efficiency and profitability of crop production and increase its environmental impact. Endemic and new or emerging threats are a risk to Scottish crop production, and the levels of risk are increased as a result of climate change, adaptations in the pests themselves and as a consequence of pesticide changes / withdrawals. Pest, weed and disease pressure varies seasonally and regionally and the safe and appropriate use of pesticides, integrated with alternative interventions has benefits to business efficiency, food safety and the environment.
Publications
News
Commercial timber income from low productivity upland
This case study on how woodland can be a great commercial option for low productivity upland was featured in the Scottish Farmer on the 7th of February. In case you…
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Soil & Nutrient Network: Case Study – Bielgrange, East Lothian
Soil & Nutrient Network: Case Study – Bielgrange, East Lothian
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Calculating the nutrient value of organic fertilisers
The aim of this guide is to help farmers to evaluate more accurately the potential nutrient value supplied to crops from organic fertilisers such as livestock slurries and manures. This…
read more >Sapling to Sawmill
December 19, 2018Crop Health update: Winter beans
December 18, 2018Crop Health Winter Roadshows in partnership with AHDB
December 7, 2018Cold snap may arrest crop disease development
November 23, 2018Stranraer Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary
November 16, 2018Upcoming Events
Feb
Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd event – Counting the value of slurry
SAC Consulting, JF Niven Building read more >Feb
A Practical Approach to NVZs and Cross Compliance – Thainstone
Glen Garioch Room read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Lanark
Quothquan Village Hall, read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Ayrshire
Knockrivoch Farm read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Dumfries
Cummertrees Village Hall read more >Feb
Digestate: The facts – Moray
The Mill House Hotel read more >Feb
Campbeltown Soil & Nutrient Network – 2nd Meeting
Cairnbaan Hotel read more >Useful links
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