September

26th September
Earlier phoma risk for many this season

Despite many parts of the UK having plenty of fine, dry weather this September ADAS researcher Dr Peter Gladders says that it has done little to halt the threat of Phoma this season.

22nd September
Slug monitoring requires vigilance this autumn

The dry spring has affected slug numbers currently being trapped but the wet weather means that numbers could bounce back at any stage.

 Trapping is revealing some interesting differences compared to previous seasons. Professor David Glen of Styloma Research and Consulting has found fewer slugs in traps following oilseed rape than after spring crops. Prof. Glen suggests an explanation is that oilseed rape took more moisture in the spring from the soil than spring-sown crops and this meant that slugs did not thrive so well in the rape.

15th September
Be prepared for new Atlantis containers, says Bayer CropScience

Alert growers preparing autumn herbicide programmes with products from Bayer CropScience will notice different packaging this autumn - the company has completely redesigned and re-engineered its containers to make them easier to use, more difficult to imitate and needing less material in their manufacture.