Tillage
The continuing mild weather has encouraged crop growth but it also brings the spectre of disease pressure within winter cereal crops.
Tillage Technical
The old Sustainable Use Directive for the safe use of pesticides is due to be superseded by a new Sustainable Use Regulation.
Plant pathologist Stephen Kildea is advising growers of winter oilseed rape to check their crops now for signs of Phoma and Light Leaf Spot disease.
Recent Teagasc crop management webinars have seen agronomists highlight the loss of the fungicide chlorathalonil in tackling crop disease.
Chlorothalonil (a multi-site fungicide) is up for review in the EU in the coming months and has been part of Irish Agronomy for years.
