Using the right slug pellet at the right time is crucial to ensuring the best possible control of slugs in oilseed rape according to Bayer CropScience’s Product Manager Peter Stacey.

Disease pressure on vegetable brassica crops in Lincolnshire has been low so far this season. It seems that last winter’s freeze did a good job of breaking the green bridge for white blister and, although rainfall through July and August has been average, periods of leaf wetness have been too short for the spotting diseases to get going.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EVENT CELEBRATING EDUCATIONAL VISITS ON FARMS

Five farms have been recognised for the role they play in educating young people at the Bayer/FACE Awards 2011.

The 2011 Bayer/FACE (Farming & Countryside Education) Awards are looking for the very best in farming education. Farmers have now been shortlisted for 5 different categories of Award.  The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Clothworkers’ Hall in London on Tuesday, 20th September 2011