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Industry insights from experts in the field
Disease Management
Disease Management
New late blight strains put pressure on fungicides
Myles Forber, technical manager at A & EG Heading Ltd, considers how the spread of more resistant strains and a diminishing armoury of fungicides have made late blight control more complex, challenging and costly.
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Pest Management
MagicTrap adding value in high-value veg
Kent-based Zantra agronomist Alice Whitehead is putting a MagicTrap digital yellow water trap to novel use as a flea beetle monitoring tool in high value vegetable crops this season, after gaining initial experience with a trap in oilseed rape last summer.
Weed Management
Early or late: the great drilling debate
Drilling winter wheat later is a standard recommendation to control black grass and Italian rye-grass. In benign autumn weather conditions, it is proven to work.
Seed & Establishment
Latest benchmarking survey results highlight grounds for OSR optimism
Significantly reduced cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) pressure and high average crop establishment scores are among a range of positive findings from the latest Bayer DEKALB oilseed rape benchmarking survey.
Crop Diseases, Weeds and Pests
We provide a wide range of crop protection products designed to control diseases, pests and weeds, and maximise yields in order to increase profitability. Click on the links below to help identify the problem that is affecting your crop, and find out more about the solutions that we offer.
The Bayer Carbon Programme
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and locking carbon away in soil is touted as a key part of global efforts to combat climate change. While undoubtedly important, it is still unclear what overall contribution arable farms can make and how this fits with running a profitable business.
That is why Bayer has launched a Europe-wide Carbon Programme featuring five UK farmers and 23 others from seven European countries to investigate the practicalities of storing soil carbon and reducing greenhouse gases
