disease control

Last season brought devastating BYDV impacts for one Exeter-based farming family, prompting them to look seriously into trial work around viable genetic defence options.

The plans will be subjected to a five-week consultation and would look to retain badger culling as an option in targeted parts only of the high-risk area and edge areas including much of southwest and central England

Two years of farm trials have convinced Norfolk farm manager Michael Wilton that Iblon, Bayer's new broad-spectrum fungicide, has the scope to simplify the existing T1 regime and deliver the expected protection

Yellow rust is increasingly posing a threat to wheat crops in traditionally wetter regions in the west of the UK