Agrovista expands disease and prediction service for growers
25 Feb 2011
Crop management adviser Agrovista is expanding its disease and pest prediction service Growers Choice Interactive.
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.
Crop management adviser Agrovista is expanding its disease and pest prediction service Growers Choice Interactive.
Bayer CropScience's foliar spray insecticide Biscaya (thiacloprid) has gained three new approvals for use on field vegetable crops.
Full on-label recommendations for several different allium crops have been given to BASF's fungicide Invader in place of a specific off-label approval (SOLA).
Arborist company Gristwood & Toms is hosting an oak processionary moth briefing in partnership with Henry Kuppen, one of Europe's leading authorities on the pest, at its headquarters in Shenley, Hertfordshire, on 3 March.
The Food & Environment Research Agency (Fera) has discovered an outbreak of Phytophthora ramorum on Bilbery bushes in North Wales.
Van Hage's garden centre in Peterborough is "bedding in" after its first "tough" year, developer Garden Park Investments director Edward Olley has said.
Basis has launched a qualification to replace its Protection of Water, the Environment & Recommendations course.
The response to Dutch elm disease in the 1970s has important lessons on how to control the spread of Phytophthora ramorum now, according to research by the Rural Economy & Land Use Programme.
The Government's LINK programme is ending on a high with some of the UK's biggest retailers, research organisations and growers teaming up for one of the scheme's final projects.



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