Farming Watch: `Don't cut costs on fungicides'.(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: March 11, 2003 | Copyright information

THE price of wheat should not affect your fungicide programme was the message to farmers at the HGCA Disease Management Roadshow, where fungicide product, timing and dosage were all discussed.

''When the price of wheat falls the inclination is for farmers to reduce the levels of fungicide, but research says keep the dose up,'' said Bill Clark of Adas.

``Looking at yield benefits against input costs, last year, the optimum return if wheat was pounds 100 per ton...

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