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Growers are advised to manage disease risk to protect good yield potential

With a complex set of factors influencing disease management this spring, the Bayer Crop Doctors’ second round of visits took them to Oxfordshire ahead of key T2 fungicide decisions

Farmers Guardian
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Growers are advised to manage disease risk to protect good yield potential

Deep cracks in the soil at Bayer Crop Science's Hinton Waldrist demonstration site near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, point to a dry spring. Yet the Crop Doctors' plot inspections reveal a nuanced disease picture....

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