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Cereals Update 235: Managing SDHIs for prolonged performance in autumn sown wheat
This Arable Update outlines practical strategies for using SDHIs effectively in the field while protecting their long-term efficacy....
Cereals Update 234: Managing Septoria: Latest results on SDHI performance
This Update outlines the latest results on how Zymoseptoria tritici (Zt), the fungus that causes Septoria tritici blotch (STB), is responding to succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI - Group 3) fungicides in New Zealand wheat crops....
Cereal update 233: Managing triazoles for prolonged performance in autumn sown wheat
This Arable Update illustrates how alternating and mixing Modes of Actions and active ingredients can help sustain disease control, protect yield, and deliver financial returns....
Cereals update 232: Managing Septoria: Latest results on triazole performance
This Update outlines the latest results on how Zymoseptoria tritici (Zt), the fungus that causes Septoria tritici blotch (STB), is responding to triazole fungicides in New Zealand wheat crops....
Farm-saved seed royalty system
Farmers who save and replant legally protected cereal varieties can voluntarily declare their usage and pay a breeder royalty. The declaration system applies to all farm saved seed barley, and to farmer saved wheat if the resultant wheat crop does not pass through an end-point royalty collection agent. ...
Crop Action: Issue 18, 2025
Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand....
Maize update 92: Mechanical weeding in maize
Maize is one of the easiest crops to mechanically weed and levels of weed control comparable to herbicides can be achieved. Find out more about the options available and how they work in this maize update....
Maize update 91: Management options for specific weeds in maize
Weed related yield losses ranging from 15% to 56% for silage and 15% to 61% for grain have been observed in New Zealand maize systems. In this maize update find out management strategies for a number of common annual and perennial weeds of maize....
How to use the soil nitrogen supply calculator - video
Watch here as FAR's Dirk Wallace takes you through step by step how to use FAR's soil nitrogen supply calculator....
How to take soil samples - video
FAR's Senior Environment Researcher Dirk Wallace takes you through the steps to taking your own soil samples and sending them off to the lab....