Crop Health
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…
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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…
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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…
Read More >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…
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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…
Read More > 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. …
Read More >SAC Technical Note TN553 – Minimum Tillage
This is a copy of SAC Technical Note TN553 – Minimum Tillage
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New fungicides and better varieties to help in the fight against septoria
The wet end to the 2019 wheat season has helped to drive septoria levels in wheat crops and it is already evident that there has been further slippage in the…
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Winter Oilseed Rape – Weed management
In ideal conditions where the soil is warm and moist, seed well covered by soil and a low risk of crop failure, then pre-emergence weed control is the most cost-effective…
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Winter Oilseed Rape – Pest Management
The key pests to consider in winter oilseed rape this autumn are flea beetle, cabbage stem flea beetle, peach-potato aphid (and turnip yellows virus – TuYV) and later in the…
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