Disease monitoring identifies brown rust and net blotch problems

Mixing modes of action and maintaining dose rates is key to protecting fungicide efficacy

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Rusts remain a problem for growers this season
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Rusts remain a problem for growers this season

Routine testing of disease isolates taken from samples collected across Great Britain reveal a significant reduction in the performance of triazoles used to control net blotch and the emergence of a strain...

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