Managing lodging risk in spring barley will be an essential agronomy objective for quality grain and yields, advises Syngenta Technical Manager, Georgina Wood. “The challenge is...
The risk of yellow rust this season will potentially be increased with crops being drilled later due to the wet weather, especially if the current relatively mild temperatures...
Trials at the eastern counties’ Syngenta Innovation Centre, have shown the timing and method of cover crop destruction, along with crop drilling techniques, could have a huge...
The risk of yellow rust this season will potentially be increased with crops being drilled later due to the wet weather, especially if the current relatively mild temperatures...
Trials at the eastern counties’ Syngenta Innovation Centre, have shown the timing and method of cover crop destruction, along with crop drilling techniques, could have a huge...
Managing lodging risk in spring barley will be an essential agronomy objective for quality grain and yields, advises Syngenta Technical Manager, Georgina Wood. “The challenge...
Be timely with fertiliser applications to hybrid barley this season, breeder Syngenta is urging as part of a checklist to help growers maintain the crop’s high yield potential...
Sowing green manure seed mix on uncropped arable headlands, left where growers just managed to muddle in landwork in the autumn, could help to restore soil structure and build...
Recognising the difficult planting conditions last autumn, Syngenta is offering UK growers free germination testing of undrilled 2019 seed of its hybrid winter barley varieties...
UK spring barley may be facing a big harvest in 2020, if more of it is grown due to difficulties planting winter cereals, but there are opportunities for the crop.
Drill timings and seed bed preparation for spring barley are key in achieving good crop establishment. Early drilled crops will have the highest yield potential but are likely...
Adapting your disease management programme is a key theme this season with many growers shifting to growing Spring Barley following significant autumn rainfall...
Early sown crops that missed a foliar spray will be at higher risk of BYDV. This season is at risk of having susceptible crops as levels of aphid pressure grow.
The torrid autumn with significantly higher than average rain fall has resulted in winter cereals being drilled over a very wide period. Some growers are still drilling winter...
Periods of extreme wet and windy conditions are set to become more the norm with changing weather trends. That poses extra challenges to keep wheat standing through to harvest...
In the search for viable spring crop options this season, growers report spring oilseed rape can work. But the crop demands very close attention to agronomy, and controlling...
Helping growers and agronomists to manage issues of both too much and too little water is a primary objective of Syngenta’s $2 billion investment in R&D to find sustainable...
