Crops and Soils

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…

We are not seeing much in the way of mildew coming through in reports as yet and it is one of the major targets of fungicides used in winter oats.…