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Focus of attention for controlling winter barley disease this year is likely to be the second spray timing, Louise Impey discovers in the latest of our series of baseline articles […]

In the latest of our series of baseline articles we home in on barley disease RHYNCHOSPORIUM is the most challenging barley disease affecting both winter and spring crops, says Morley […]

BARLEY yellow dwarf virus was at its highest level for a decade last year, according to a survey of over 6000 farmers. Almost three out of five winter wheat crops […]

need separate approach From sowing to storage, pests are a constant threat. In this special focus we look at how to combat some of the leading profit pinchers likely to […]

A SURGE of yellow rust in winter barley this year could prompt a rethink in new variety breeding. Provisional results from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs […]

By Andrew Blake STROBILURIN fungicides could be partly to blame for potentially yield-sapping leaf spots on Scottish winter barleys, according to SAC pathologist Simon Oxley. Last year, spotting caused by […]

BARLEY dominates cropping at East Fingask, near Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire, where Royal Northern Crops and the Environment event host William Ritch farms in partnership with his father, George. Two-thirds of […]

BE careful with barley spray timings, many growers get them wrong, warns disease expert David Jones, of ADAS Rosemaund. Stem extension in barley responds to temperature, so critical timings can […]

u NET blotch infection is soaring in some crops of Regina barley in the south-west and Pearl in Norfolk, reports Dalgety Arable. Fungicide should be applied if infection exceeds 40%, […]