Web-based service aids disease decisions

By Tom Allen-Stevens

6 February 2012

Growers looking for advice on disease control this season can get a wealth of information from visiting the Bayer CropScience website.

The ‘Programmed Approach to Managing Wheat Disease’ contains a timing-by-timing guide on the key disease threats and management.

Alternatively growers can access specific disease information, images and control advice from a drop down menu of problematic wheat, barley and OSR diseases.

Further tools are contained in the form of a spray-timing planning sheet and a T2 product selector. There is also a link to the CropMonitor website for the latest disease forecasts. 

The information can be found at: - http://www.bayercropscience.co.uk/problem/diseases/ or

http://www.bayercropscience.co.uk/seasonal-updates-and-guidance/spring/managing-wheat-disease/

The web-based service complements the first in a new series of features in CPM that covers the background of a specific technical issue.

Tech Talk, sponsored in the Feb issue by Bayer, offers growers an in-depth study of the UK’s number one yield-robber septoria.

Leading cereal pathologist Bill Clark of Brooms Barn guides growers through the background of the disease, how the pathogen develops, and how best to keep it under control. 

With a focus on resistance issues, and including the in-field experiences and planned 2012 strategy of Herefordshire-based AICC agronomist Antony Wade, the feature offers a thorough insight into the disease.