Cereals 24: Wheat disease control requires mindset changes

With high disease pressures this year, a mindset change could be required this season

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Cereals 24: Wheat disease control requires mindset changes

A clean flag leaf rather than a perfectly clean crop should be the aim of disease management in winter wheat. That was the message to growers at cereals from NIAB plant pathologist Dr Aoife O'Driscoll....

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