Certis UK & Ireland

With the Scottish seed potato harvest beginning a fortnight ahead of normal, SRUC consultant Dr Stuart Wale reminds growers of the threat from dry rot.

Growers are reminded of the take-all disease threat to winter barley crops this autumn and to consider a specific seed treatment to protect yield.

The rotational chaos, combined with a predicted fall in the oilseed rape area for harvest 2021, will inevitably see more land pencilled in for second or third cereal crops this autumn.

With the future of metaldehyde still in doubt and its environmental credentials seen less favourably amongst growers and advisers, there is an increasing demand for ferric phosphate-based pellets for slug...