Crop Health

Pests – Oct 2019

The change to cooler and wetter weather will knock back the flight of aphids into crops, although any warmer sunny days will see them flying about again. The difficult harvest…

Stem base diseases hit yields in 2019

The SRUC crop clinic has been kept busy this season with stem base disease cases in wheat and barley. Some of these have come in from fields with high levels…

Farm Management Handbook 2019/20

The 40th edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, rural professionals, students…

Pest pressures mount in oilseed rape

Wet weather has encouraged slugs and grazing damage can be seen in many oilseed rape crops. Treatment may not be needed if crops have reached 4 true leaves as they…

Forewarned Is Forearmed For Potato Pests

The warm wet end to the summer has further fuelled the risk of tuber blight and it is more important than ever to maintain effective fungicide protection until the haulm…

Winter beans – pre-emergence weed control

Weed pressure in winter beans tends to be low due to the later sowing date when fewer weeds germinate. However, beans are sown at a very low seed rate so…

Slugs – September 2019

Slug damage is already being noted in those winter oilseed rape crops peeping through the ground and wheat will also be on the slugs’ hit list. In oilseed rape, the…

Blight Risk Update – Sept 2019

Blight risk update Unsurprisingly, there has been a surge in the number of late blight outbreaks across Scotland. So far the Fight against Blight service has 80 reports of outbreaks…

Blight proves challenging in 2019

Perhaps an early warning of things to come At SRUC’s potato blight trial site this year blight has proven to be particularly difficult to control since the start of August. …

SAC Technical Note TN553 – Minimum Tillage

This is a copy of SAC Technical Note TN553 – Minimum Tillage

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