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.
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.
Yorkshire Housing wants grounds maintenance services worth £1.7m over four years.
The Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA) has intercepted two shipments of Nomaphila that were found to be hosting Bemisia tabaci .
Industry leaders say operator certification is crucial for effective pesticide-spraying programmes.
Sussex-based horticultural product supplier Fargro has been appointed by Japansese firm Arysta LifeScience to be its main distributor for Carpovirusine.
The fungicide Rudis with triazolinthione technology has gained approval for use on cauliflower and broccoli/calabrese. Its label now covers all the main outdoor brassica crops.
The protectant and systemic fungicide Signum, which controls Sclerotinia, Rhizoctonia and Botrytis, has had its label recommendation for use in lettuce reinstated.
Growers are reminded that 30 May is the very last day that diphenylamine (DPA) can be legally used.



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