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Cash sought to tackle oak threat

Environmental charity Woodland Heritage issues call for funding to overcome acute oak decline.

Gloomy, rainy skies bring blight infection risk

A pall of gloomy skies across large parts of the UK has left potato growers battling against blight infections and struggling to cope with big crop canopies in the run-up to harvest.

Event supplies spray advice

The Horticultural Development Company held a seminar, Hitting the Target - Optimising Pesticide Efficacy, in Wellesbourne on 24 August.

Norfolk carrot growers on fungus alert after high Sclerotinia finding

Carrot growers in Norfolk are being warned by the ADAS/BASF Sclerotinia monitoring team that germination of the fungus has been unusually high in their region.

Seminar to tackle tree disease crisis

Treework Environmental Practice (TEP) is holding a seminar to address disease threats to mature trees at Kew on 16 September.

Call for tighter laws on counterfeit pesticides

Counterfeit and illegal pesticides may account for as much as eight per cent of the UK pesticide market, according to the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA).

Pests & Diseases

Bemisia tabaci outbreak caught

Bemisia tabaci infection detected on Nomaphila plants

The Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA) has intercepted two shipments of Nomaphila that were found to be hosting Bemisia tabaci .

Disease-resistant elms planted at Wrest Park as part of a £1.4m regeneration project

Twenty six Dutch elm disease-resistant elms were planted in the Bedfordshire park to replace an avenue of English elms that succumbed to the disease in the 1970s.

Study looks at cause of carrot browning

Crops may need closer monitoring after research finds browning associated with CMD viruses.


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