United Kingdom
October 6, 2015
Bayer CropScience’s first HGCA Recommended List winter oilseed rape variety, Harper, will be the centrepoint of the firm’s Cereals 2014 stand.
Harper, which gained Recommended List status for the 2014/15 season, is a high-yielding hybrid variety, which has the highest possible rating for Phoma stem canker resistance on the List. The Bayer team at Cereals will be on hand to discuss what this means for fungicide programmes for the variety and any other aspect of its agronomy.
A new hybrid variety, Fencer, will also be on show – this variety is a candidate for the HGCA Recommended List and has similar characteristics to Harper, including an excellent Phoma stem canker resistance rating of 8, along with a slightly higher yield.
The herbicide team will be demonstrating the importance of timing for post-emergence herbicides, such as Atlantis WG (mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron) using black-grass weed trays. With control of the weed becoming increasingly challenging, the demonstration will highlight how different timings and growth stages of the weed can affect performance.
There will also be a new pre-emergence herbicide on show, which will be tested next to available options, including Liberator (flufenacet + diflufenican), against strains of black-grass with different resistance profiles.
The Seed Growth area will be demonstrating the importance of fungicidal seed treatments in the oilseed rape crop, as well as discussing life after neonicotinoid insecticidal seed treatments in the crop.
The team will also be discussing the many benefits of neonicotinoid insecticidal seed treatments in cereals, including how Redigo Deter (clothianidin + prothioconazole) can be of value for slug control in Water Protection Zones where metaldehyde use has been restricted, as well as within programmes. Plots in the zone will highlight the product’s other technical benefit – controlling aphids to reduce barley yellow dwarf virus.
In the Roots zone, visitors will get the chance to find out how biological crop protection and conventional chemistry integrates within programmes, with a demonstration of potatoes grown from black scurf infected tubers and treated with Monceren (pencycuron) seed treatment and sprayed in-furrow with the biological fungicide, Serenade.
The performance of Aviator Xpro (bixafen + prothioconazole) and other fungicides in the Bayer CropScience range will be the focus of the fungicide team’s plots, who will be keen to discuss how growers and advisers have used the products this season, and how disease control is shaping up in both wheat and barley.
Finally in the Agri Services area, visitors to the stand will get the chance to try out all of the updated mobile apps produced by Bayer CropScience, including the very popular Weed Spotter app, as well as play with the all-new Bayer CropScience website.
Visitors will be able to gain BASIS and NRoSO continual professional development points by visiting each area and correctly answering questions based on the demonstrations.
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