Crop Health

Under dry conditions at crop emergence flea beetles will potentially be damaging the crop up to the 4 leaf stage. Under damper conditions slugs will be the issue. Bear in…

With most crops now at early flowering the risk from pollen beetle is over, as they can access the pollen they crave. With most crops now at early flowering, cabbage…

Spring barley Check or aphids on emerging shoots as they could be walking onto the crop from volunteers and grasses, and some aphids have already been flying around this spring.…

Winter barley Awns are peeping in the most advanced crops, with flag leaf peeping in a wider proportion. The dry weather has helped reduce the pressure from rhynchosporium so, where…

Most weed control is based around conventional chemistry of a basic residual + contact combination.  Products can be mixed and rates matched according to the weed spectrum. Timing is everything…

Most winter cereal crops are now past the growth stage where annual meadow-grass can be adequately controlled. However, there are still opportunities to tidy up broad-leaved weeds such as cleavers,…

The warm spell in mid-April did lead to some flying cereal aphids being caught in Scottish suction traps, so it’s worth checking for aphids on leaves on warm sunny days,…

Carrot flies are forecast to emerge and fly into carrot crops in late April, with egg laying beginning from early May. Crops that were sown with seed treated with Force…