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Volume 19 Number 4
Arable Extra March 2017
Tom Allen-Stevens
Jane Brooks
Louise Impey
Melanie Jenkins
Editor
Tom Allen-Stevens
Technical editor
Lucy de la Pasture
Machinery editor
Jane Brooks
Writers
Rob Jones
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Lucy de la Pasture
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Opinion
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Talking Tilth – A word from the editor.
Trade Talk – An insight into the Cereals Event from director Jon Day
Last Word – A view from the field from agronomist John Sarup
Smith s Soapbox will return in April, and Lucy de la Pasture will again take
the Last Word.
Technical
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Disease control - New names for rust races
Wheat pathogens have been dominating the headlines lately as they
evolve, making control less predictible.
Barley disease - Improve tactics to outsmart disease
The results of two new surveys show there’s room for greater attention to
detail with barley disease control.
Tech Talk - Why molecular movements matter
Discovering how a fungicide behaves throws light on its efficacy in the field.
Sclerotinia - One spray or two?
Expert advice on a disease that has the potential to decimate yields.
Weed control - Weed worries shouldn’t drive spring sprays
Dow AgroSciences’ new broadleaf herbicide Arylex makes promises of
a more relaxed approach to spring weed control.
Innovation Insight - Liquid logic has a way with weeds
When Dupont scientists partnered fluroxypyr with sulfonylurea herbicides,
it wasn’t just the spectrum of the one-can solution they improved.
CPSB Conference - Spotlight on crop research
The great and the good gathered at Peterborough Arena last month for
the ‘Crop Production in Southern Britain’ conference.
Blackgrass - Brampton goes west
A new trial site in Oxon puts soil at the forefront of the blackgrass battle.
Features
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Precision agronomy - Robots take control
Hands-free farming has come a step closer with a ground-breaking
research initiative underway at Harper Adams University.
Spring beans - Tapping into pulse potential
Attentive agronomy and plenty of manure helped one N Yorks grower
achieve the highest UK yield with his spring beans.
Conference - Bring on Brexit
Grab the opportunities that Brexit has to offer and look forward to the
future, urged speakers at a conference organised by Väderstad.
Spring barley - New barley hits the right note?
With a 10% yield improvement on Concerto and even better quality,
LG Opera may get top billing from maltsters.
Insiders View - The new name for a farmer’s friend?
Syngenta’s variety, Graham, offers a disease package that many growers
may warm to.
Roots
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Sugar beet weeds - Tips for beet newbies
Sugar beet has been adopted as a blackgrass solution by a Suffolk
grower after a long absence from growing the crop.
Potato weed control - Life after linuron
Potato growers received an unwelcome, if not entirely unexpected,
Valentine’s day present from CRD in Feb - the issue of a withdrawal
notice for linuron.
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