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Growers warned to watch later cereal disease build-up

Latest modelling modelling puts spore levels of the UK’s main wheat disease, septoria, above long-term average

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Growers are being urged to cast their minds back to 2019 when June downpours sparked a sudden Septoria onslaught
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Growers are being urged to cast their minds back to 2019 when June downpours sparked a sudden Septoria onslaught

Be prepared to protect cereal yields against possible unexpected increases in disease from the important flag leaf (T2) timing onwards. That is the message from Syngenta fungicide technical manager,...

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