Talking roots

Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Over the next few weeks sugar beet weed control will be my major concern

25 April 2021 • 3 min read

Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Product losses and emergency approvals make the growing of profitable crops very precarious

My list of wishes in my last column didn’t include the biggest flood in the Waveney Valley since 1968, but it happened nonetheless and on Christmas Eve a nearby measuring station recorded its highest ever water level up by nearly 0.5 metres.

12 February 2021 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: The high virus levels from last season means there will be much more inoculum in the environment

28 December 2020 • 4 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: We must open our eyes to crop diseases in other parts of the world as they seem to be quickly coming our way

31 October 2020 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Modern Pallida resistant varieties are doing a great job for controlling PCN populations

I was in Scotland last week, trying to catch the fish of 10,000 casts or so Ian the gillie told me after I blanked.

27 September 2020 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Humidity and leaf wetness will no doubt start to show blight emerging

06 September 2020 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: We will need to make some significant changes to sugar beet weed control

06 July 2020 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: The frost has hit several crops very hard

28 May 2020 • 1 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: In potatoes a robust pre-em can save a lot of problems post-emergence

12 April 2020 • 3 min read

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: We require chemistry to work with genetics, but neither should be regarded as the sole answer

Spring is just around the corner and it’s very noticeable that winter cereals and grass are greening up, but that’s not surprising when we look at how warm the soil temperatures are for the time of the year.

29 February 2020 • 3 min read