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Issue 217 Crop Action

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Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

This issue of Crop Action includes:

  • Regional updates
  • Crop management tips – beginning irrigation and herbicide along fences
  • Maize – fall armyworm and pheromone trapping, cover crop termination and preparing for sowing, and soil temperature monitoring for planting
  • Cereals – T1 fungicide programmes, PGR programmes in cereals, and aphid monitoring
  • Herbage – rust control on ryegrass seed crops, and closing dates on ryegrass seed crops
  • Weather updates

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