Crop Health
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…
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TN723: Pest management Post Neonicotinoids
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Video: Helping pollinators on farms and crofts
The crofting areas of the Western Isles, Caithness, Sutherland and the Orkney isles are important for the Great Yellow Bumblebee, our rarest bumblebee. This bee particularly likes red clover and…
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Technical Note (TN714): Liming materials and recommendations
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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.…
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Pests in soft fruits, May 2019
Pests are beginning to appear on strawberries. Aphids have already been seen on strawberries outdoors and in polytunnels. Crops should be checked for pests and any treatments applied before flowering.…
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Pests in carrots & parsnips, May 2019
Carrot flies are forecast to begin laying eggs in crops from early May. Crops that were sown with seed treated with Force ST (tefluthrin) will be protected from this first…
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Pests in spring legumes & forage and vegetable brassicas, May 2019
Spring peas & beans Spring sown crops should be checked for pea and bean weevil damage. The damage is very distinctive – notches eaten out of the sides of leaves.…
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Virus management in seed potatoes, May 2019
Protecting seed crops from the various aphid-borne potato viruses is essential to maintain the quality of Scottish seed potatoes, particularly in light of the shrinking availability of aphicides for effective…
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Managing potato blight, May 2019
It’s very difficult at this stage of the season to accurately predict how bad overall 2019 will be for blight. Will it be similar to 2018 or will there be…
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