Reflecting on the challenges of 2024 and looking forward with Clayton Plant Protection.
Posted on 30 January 2025
It’s been another challenging year for Agriculture and crop protection in particular throughout 2024, with some difficult weather conditions to work around, low prices in the marketplace and some rising input costs have all tested the resilience of growers across the UK, all ultimately impacting returns and profitability on farm.
Despite these challenges, including the wet period at the start of the autumn, which led to the later drilling of new winter cereals, crops look reasonably good at the moment and there is a sense of optimism for the coming spring. Especially where growers plan using cost-effective fungicide and herbicide product partner options to ensure efficacy levels remain high but keep costs in check for their weed and disease control programmes in the spring.
At Clayton Plant Protection, we are committed to helping growers with our wide range of high-quality, generic formulations covering many key crops, including Cereals, Oilseeds, Pulses, Potatoes, Maize, Grassland, Sugar Beet and Field Vegetables!
Please contact us to find out more on a specific crop of interest.
Highlights of 2024: A year of engagement and growth.
Looking back through the year, we had the pleasure of connecting with many visitors and both new and existing customers, agronomists and growers at events around the UK this year, including Cereals, Groundswell and CropTec, as well as attending other key industry events and field days.
For those who couldn’t catch up with members of our commercial and technical teams in person, you can always reach out to them directly or register for our technical updates and newsletter. By registering you will also qualify for and receive 2 BASiS and 2 NRoSO points!
Keep an eye out for information about any field days or events that the Clayton team will be attending in 2025. Updates to follow.
What to look out for this coming spring.
Spring fungicides
Lookout for further technical information about Clayton’s range of Cereal and OSR fungicides for effective disease control as we head into spring.
Grassland range.
Following on from our promotion of Grassland herbicides at CropTec in the autumn, we’ll be sharing more insights into our grassland weed control solutions, including herbicide options in maize crops to help cover your forage weed control requirements for the spring.
NUE Biosolutions for improving soil health and crop growth.
Improving soil health to improve crop growth continues to be a priority for many growers across the globe and our exciting range of NUE Biosolutions can help support you in building healthier, biologically active soils.
The NUE BioSolutions product range contains plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) to enhance nutrition for better Nutrient Use Efficiency, N fixation, P solubilisation and increased iron uptake. Crop Development is boosted by using PGPRs to trigger phytohormone production, stimulating top growth & root development in the crop. Plant Protection is improved with competitive exclusion of pathogens and greater induced systemic resistance.
The NUE range features products tailored for specific crops, including Wheat, Beet, Maize, Carrots, Onions, Leeks and Potatoes.
To explore the broader benefits and learn more about our Biosolutions range, take a look at our product guide here!
About Clayton Plant Protection
As a family run business, focused on providing high quality generic products formulated and manufactured in the UK and Europe, Clayton continue to offer a great alternative choice to multi-nationals for our customers and growers. With proven quality, high levels of trust, good relationships and a close focus on customer service, coordinated from our head office in Ireland, Clayton are fully committed to supporting out UK customers and remain agile as a business in finding solutions for growers to the challenges posed by tightening regulations faced within the industry today.
Contact us to find out more about products available for potato, maize, pulses, field vegetables and other crops this spring.