Defra has launched a consultation on pesticides enforcement regulations and fees associated with protecting people and the environment from pesticides use.
Bayer Garden is warning gardeners to be aware of damping off problems now that Cheshunt Compound has been withdrawn by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate. It is only available for domestic use until 30 November.
Fera has identified another outbreak of Phytophthora kernoviae, a fungal infection that can kill trees and shrubs, in Cornwall.
Phytophthora ramorum has been found in a tree in the same country park in Scotland where Phytophthora lateralis was confirmed in Lawson's cypress trees late in 2010.
The Government is to move to a policy of containing the pest oak processionary moth within five West London boroughs where it has become established since it was first discovered in the area in 2006.
Bayer Garden is warning gardeners to be aware of damping off problems now that Cheshunt Compound has been withdrawn by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate. It is only available for domestic use until 30 November. Bayer Garden is recommending Fruit Vegetable Disease Control as an alternative....
NFU Scotland says a European committee could decide on 9 March to ban Asulox, the primary herbicide used by Scottish farmers to prevent bracken from encroaching on hill pastures.
ADAS plant pathologist Erika Wedgwood has advised growers to go "back to basics" with all nursery staff to help tackle pest and disease problems.
Crop management specialist Syngenta Bioline has developed a new predatory mite - Montyline am - for use in protection against thrip and whitefly attacks on protected ornamentals and edible crops.
Fruit growers can now use BASF's fungicide Scala on both protected and outdoor blackberry crops and protected raspberry crops thanks to the release of two new specific off-label approvals.
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