HDC seminar video goes online
02 Mar 2012
The Horticultural Development Company has put online a video of its grower seminar on optimising pest and disease control held in January.
Bayer CropScience's Fenomenal fungicide has been approved for use on outdoor strawberries, as well as on ornamental plants.
The Horticultural Development Company has put online a video of its grower seminar on optimising pest and disease control held in January.
The latest edition of the UK Pesticide Guide is now out. Changes to pesticide approvals in EC Regulation 1107/2009 are now in place and must be complied with. "Many products have been issued with revised expiry dates and some have been granted extensions," said editor Martin Lainsbury. "However, a number...
The RHS has conceded that it gave out incorrect information about fuchsia gall mite when it said there was no effective pesticide to control the burgeoning pest.
The European Commission has launched consultation on invasive alien species.
Phytophthora austrocedrae has hit rare native juniper bushes at the Moor House - Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve in the North Pennines.
Gateshead Council is to plant 650 trees in Cross Lane Meadows nature reserve, the first of 16 sites in Defra's Big Tree Plant initiative.
Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having lost first place to viburnum beetle in 2010.
The Forestry Commission has introduced a temporary moratorium on issuing new permissions to fell larch trees during the winter in the areas of Britain at greatest risk of having ramorum disease.
Yorkshire Housing wants grounds maintenance services worth £1.7m over four years.



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