Archive Article: 1998/05/15
15 May 1998
Sprayers moved into rape earlier this week as warm weather and mid/ late flowering coincided to raise the risk of disease infection. Here Richard Hartley of Manor Farm, Milton-under-Wychwood, Burford, Oxon applies half-rate Folicur and mbc to Synergy to control botrytis and sclerotinia. According to ADAS, lower pod set and fill is good, even where Easter frosts struck, and seed weevils were rare at the beginning of the week. A pyrethroid spray should only be used where more than two adult weevils can be found on a plant, or one a plant if the spray is going on with a fungicide or pod midge is expected, it advises.
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