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Saturday 4 February 2012
THIS YEAR’S Scottish-based World Potato Congress, to be held on May 27-30, in Edinburgh, has attracted a remarkable line-up of international speakers, including Dr Anton Haverkort of Netherlands-based Plant Research International.
The Right to reap a tale from three countries and three continents this month, with the unifying theme of ‘land rights’ and the ‘rule of law’, which without doubt hold the key to global food security.
NEW varieties of barley developed to provide better and longer lasting beer, have had a good season, according to independent trials.
The combined effects of soil borne pests and diseases in the same field could be hitting potato yields and quality far more significantly than the sum of the issues alone, according to Syngenta potato field technical specialist, Roger Blyth.
THE SHIFT in the tectonic plates of global economics between the west and east is good news for Scottish farmers, it was claimed this week.
IT’S TAKEN a while, but BASF has now ‘joined the party’, with its version of the SDHI group of fungicides – but, it reckons it has been worth waiting for.
THE MILD autumn and early winter has left Scottish cereal growers with ‘a full range of weeds to tackle’ in their winter wheat crops, according to Andrew Gilchrist, who heads up Scotland’s leading independent advice organisation, Scottish Agronomy.
A BOAT containing 2750 tonnes of oilseed rape destined for Rotterdam has become the first consignment to leave Angus Cereals since its £6.5m development in Montrose was completed in July.
THE STRUNG out Scottish harvest will mean that growers of oilseed rape will have to fine tune their agronomy this year as they could be dealing with both early and late drilled crops.
A TIMELY reminder that fresh growth in cereal crops it could be prone to frost damage, came this week.
WITH THIS year’s difficult weather conditions highlighting storage and drying deficiencies on many Scottish units, then a trip to the UK Grain event, at the Exec Exhibitions Centre at the East of England Showground, near Peterborough, on November 2, could prove worthwhile.
AND SO it came to pass – there was a period of high pressure and a mini heat wave.
TILLAGE-LIVE, the national cultivations demonstration, to be held on September 14, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, is the UK’s largest event that focuses on all aspects of crop establishment.
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