Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
Winter cereal growers are being urged to focus on cultural controls to ward off a major virus disease without a now-banned seed dressing. The aphid-spread barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) can cause yield losses in wheat and barley of up to 60%, and growers this [2019/20] season will not be able to use neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments.
Experts say the focus needs to be on drilling as late as possible to try to miss the main aphid migration and destroying the "green bridge" of
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6684232&promed&0
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