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Bayer has received regulatory approval for isoflucypram, its new fungicide active substance that promises unrivalled broad-spectrum disease control against the principal foliar threats in wheat

Bayer receives approval for ‘groundbreaking’ new fungicide

iblon, a new fungicide active from Bayer, promises  to raise the standards for broad-spectrum disease control, as Crop Focus discovers.

iblon to deliver unrivalled broad spectrum control

Tom Astill, Bayer commercial technical manager for the East Midlands, gives a few pointers on what to look for in this season’s oilseed rape crops

Disease pressure intensifying, but not out of control

Preserve crop potential from the outset. That’s the view of leading agronomists, who say there is plenty of potential in wheat crops. But there are also risks.

Nip disease in the bud to build yield

An integrated disease management programme will help avoid unnecessary contingency spend. That’s the view of Andrew and Sam Melton of H Melton & Son on the Norfolk, Cambridge border.

Disease control programme put to the test with farm trial

With relatively low growing costs and rotational advantages, spring barley can be a lucrative option. Crop Focus gets some advice on maximising returns.

Successful spring barley

The convenience of having a broad-spectrum disease protectant for wheat and barley crops is realised with Ascra’s (prothioconazole + bixafen + fluopyram) approval in barley.

Broad-spectrum ascra boosts barley disease arsenal

For Julian Gold of Hendred Farm Partnership, Wantage, Oxon, CropCheck is all part of an integrated agronomic approach.

T2 Strategies revised after CropCheck scores reveal risk

Looking at the value of rapid qPCR testing with recent seasons having thrown up surprises for winter wheat disease patterns.

Learning Lessons From Yellow Rust

The better informed you are the better the decisions you make. Alex Borthwick and Colin Woodward are making the most of detailed data to create highly targeted agronomic strategies – optimising crop performance and reducing farm footprint.

Data Takes The Doubt Out Of Decision Making

Building a data library will help Coppid Farm Enterprise manager Simon Beddows navigate his way through the inevitable changes that are coming. With significant soil variability, he is logging field performance against environmental factors to ensure fu...

Data Library To Drive Sustainable Success

Caligula, the foliar fungicide containing fluopyram and prothioconazole from Bayer Crop Science, has been authorised for use in sugar beet. The news will  be welcomed by growers given that this is the last season for Escolta (cyproconazole + trifloxystr...

Caligula receives approval for disease control in sugar beet

Planning a tuber blight programme has become more complex and expensive. See what Bayer recommends for tuber blight control in 2022.

How to control tuber blight in potatoes in 2022

Confirmation of another strain with reduced sensitivity to fluazinam should serve as a reminder of immense capacity of the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, to evolve, says Antonia Walker, Bayer campaign manager for root crops.

Managing late blight: what reduced sensitivity and product losses mean for growers and advisers

In sugar beet - rust (Uromyces betae) has displaced powdery mildew (Erysiphe betae) as the principal threat while milder autumns mean that Cercospora leaf spot (Cercospora beticola) has emerged as a serious threat to late-lifted crops.

Changing disease pressure in sugar beet: Less powdery mildew, more rust and Cercospora

Vigilance needed in battle with resistant blight strains

Alternaria in potatoes warrants greater consideration as a disease threat.  Antonia Walker, Bayer campaign manager for root crops, considers the pathogen complex and the means for control

Protecting against Alternaria: from adequate nutrition to effective fungicides

Ben Giles assess disease risk in a range of crops in the Midlands

Five insights into how to keep crops disease free this May

The spread of fungicide-resistant strains of early blight (Alternaria spp.) and the difficulties they create in ensuring crops are suitably protected continues to concern researchers.

Latest learnings on Alternaria highlight value of IPM

Ascra Xpro’s approval in barley is a welcome addition to the fungicide armoury. Here we examine how it fits into programmes and what it offers growers in the fight against key foliar diseases.

Ascra approval takes barley disease control to new level

The fears of a failing fungicide armoury are unfounded says Bayer’s head of resistance monitoring Dr Andreas Mehl. Mehl explains continuing with the ‘effective partner’ approach should maintain the fungicide armoury.

Some straight pointers to primary azole performance

The approval of ‘all-rounder’ Ascra (prothioconazole + bixafen + fluopyram) for use in winter and spring barley brings another broad-spectrum option for barley disease control programmes.

All-Rounder Ascra Joins barley Fungicide Arsenal

Climate FieldView is a global platform for the collating and analysing of field data to support more informed crop management. From soil texture scans to crop protection and fertiliser applications to yield data, the maps can be viewed side-by-side or v...

FieldView takes data analysis up a level

Our summary of important findings that will help growers protect crops against Alternaria, and why Caligula can help growers beat the disease.

Why you need Caligula to beat Alternaria

Potato tuber & stem disease control is crucial for delivering top quality, high yielding potatoes. But what level of disease expert are you? Take our quiz to find out.

Quiz: Are you a potato tuber & stem disease expert?

Find out more about how latent disease testing can help with planning fungicide use in farming.

Planning fungicide use with Bayer’s Rapid Disease Detection

Test your knowledge in the quiz below and make sure you know your bunt from your ergot, to keep your crops safe from these armed and dangerous diseases.

Quiz: How well do you know your seed- and soil-borne diseases?

How good is your understanding of blight control?

Here, with the assistance of Eric Anderson, senior agronomist at Scottish Agronomy, we outline six steps to follow in managing the impact virus can have on crops.

6 steps to managing the threat of virus in crops

Keeping the flag leaf clean of Septoria and other diseases is crucial to protecting your wheat crop’s yield potential. But, did you know that leaf 3 and the T1 spray timing is integral to keeping the flag leaf disease-free?

Why is the T1 spray timing so critical for Septoria control and yield protection?

We’ve put together a little quiz to test your knowledge on disease identification and management!

Cereal disease quiz

Find lots of resources to support you in optimising your disease control programme.

How to maximise disease control and yield from your wheat fungicide programme

Find out more about how latent leaf infection develops and how it can be controlled through Bayer’s latent disease testing technology.

How to spot crop disease early with latent disease testing

Find out more about the benefits and challenges of farm succession planning and how to ease the transition.

The importance of farm succession planning

There is more to the long-term storage of potatoes than sprout suppressants. Here we examine five main considerations.

Five key areas to successful long-term potato storage

Alex Borthwick, a Lincolnshire farmer and agronomist describes how he uses Climate FieldView to improve decision-making on his farm, and to help assess the performance of on-farm trials.

How assessing on-farm trials with Climate FieldView is impressing this Lincolnshire farmer

A guide to what cultural controls and integrated pest management techniques are available for growers to reduce disease pressure in cereals before using fungicides

How to reduce disease pressure in cereals before using fungicides

Test your knowledge in identifying disease threats in oilseed rape crops.

Oilseed rape disease identification quiz

Advice on the importance of T2 to protect your spring barley crops, including timings and potential consequences of getting T2 fungicide timing wrong.

Videos: Getting the best results for spring barley at T2

Wondering what the best type of sprayer is for crop protection on your farm? Here’s an overview of popular options to help you decide.

Crop sprayer types explained: Mounted, trailed & self-propelled

Wondering whether biostimulants can benefit disease control on your farm? We can help you get to grips with this emerging area in crop protection.

Biostimulants Explained: Your 2020 Guide

Virus Yellows was considered a problem ‘solved’, but with the withdrawal of neonicotinoid seed and foliar treatments, the threat is once again very real.

Virus Yellows: Can Scientists Solve Sugar Beet's Key Threat?

In this series of three videos, Adam Tidswell, our commercial technical manager in Yorkshire catches up with Professor Fiona Burnett, group manager for Crop & Soils Systems at Scotland’s Rural College, to discuss T1 timing in winter barley.

Videos: protect your winter barley at T1

Agronomist Richard Cromie demonstrates how to dissect a wheat plant to identify final leaf three – the target for T1 fungicides.

Identification of leaf three emergence in winter wheat

Improved understanding of how to control Sclerotinia means it is almost a decade since substantial losses were reported on a national scale. But the complex disease remains one of the biggest threats to oilseed rape crops and growers cannot afford to dr...

How to control Sclerotinia: 4 tips for success in 2020

How can you improve disease management, particularly Septoria this spring? We asked six experts for their top tips.

Six steps to improve Septoria management in wheat

With the impending ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments approaching in 2019, knowing the best time to apply pest control treatments is going to be key to controlling the aphids that spread barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV). There is a calculation that ca...

How to use T-sum calculation to control BYDV

The aphid that carries the turnip yellows virus (TuYV) has been found in every area of the UK this summer. Growers need to keep a careful eye on their oilseed rape crops, to avoid seeing yields drop if this virus is found in their fields.

Five tips for tackling turnip yellows virus in OSR in 2019

We polled 300 growers to discover how well-known seed- & soil-borne diseases are in the UK. See what we learned, & make sure you know how to identify them yourself.

How to identify loose smut and other seed- and soil-borne diseases

Test your knowledge of the threats to your crops with our fun interactive quiz and don’t forget to download the Agronomy app.

How much do you know about OSR diseases?

Last year Paul Drinkwater and his team at Abbots Ripton Farming Company (ARFCo) produced the
best crop of sugar beet the business has ever managed.  Here are his six tips to improve sugar beet performance.

Six-steps to getting sugar beet off to a good start

The 2018-19 sugar beet crop will follow a record crop and with growers keen to push further for yield, Edward Hagues and Roger Bradbury of the Bayer roots technical team have compiled a list of six steps to maximising performance.

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