This issue of the Cereal Disease Management Cropping Strategy has been revised to take into account:
- Recent FAR research results on SDHI fungicides.
- The introduction of a new active ingredient.
- Increased emphasis on fungicide resistance following the recent discovery of strains of Septoria tritici blotch (STB) which are resistant to SDHIs in Europe.
It outlines the disease management options that have provided better economic returns from trials over the last two years and takes account of recent changes in the resistance of key pathogens to fungicide application.
It is important that strategy documents produced prior to the advent of resistance are not used as reference for crops grown now, because of the advent of resistance and newer product availability.
The tactical application of this Cropping Strategy will be updated in FAR Crop Actions.