A critical late-spring period for crop management!

Attention is now firmly focused on maintaining disease protection in winter cereals, particularly around the key T2 fungicide timing to safeguard the flag leaf. With warm temperatures and adequate soil moisture across many regions, yield potential remains encouraging for a large proportion of crops nationwide.

This is also a crucial period for weed and disease management across a range of spring-drilled crops, including potatoes, sugar beet, pulses, field vegetables and maize, alongside the rapid growth phase of grassland pastures.

Following the warmer conditions experienced during the end of April, weed pressure has continued to increase, making early May an important opportunity to target weeds before summer conditions take hold.

For later drilled or less forward cereal crops, take a look at our T1 timing bulletin

• Carefully assess each crop ahead of T1 to tailor sprays accordingly.
• Consider T1 upgrades from single active triazoles to more powerful prothioconazole-based co-forms for added disease control at little extra cost.
• Use T1 as an opportunity to vary strategy and input spend across fields, based on soil and crop conditions and yield potential, to improve overall margins.
• Consider multi-sites e.g. folpet at T1 as an important part of the overall disease control programme and to protect other chemistry for resistance management.