IN BRIEF
3 March 2000
IN BRIEF
uDESSAC computer-based decision support systems for arable crops, developed under a LINK project for five years and validated on pilot farms in 1999, have a new marketing company. DESSAC International, headed by former HGCA chief executive Tony Williams, plans to start selling software to help growers fine-tune inputs this autumn. First of the modules will address winter wheat disease control.
uEARLY potato planting is slipping behind schedule, notes the BPC. After a good start only 860ha (2125 acres) were in by the end of last week, compared with 1068ha (2683 acres) at the same time last season. *
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