High risk of disease in oilseed rape predicted for this season

Rothamsted Research has updated its oilseed rape online disease risk forecasts for light leaf spot and phoma leaf spot for the 2012/13 growing season.They suggest that disease pressure will be high, as might be expected due to the dreary and wet summer enjoyed by most of the UK. Increased light leaf spot risk is predicted for many crops, as well as an early onset of phoma leaf spot outbreaks in most regions. The tortuous, extended harvest experienced by many growers has compounded the threat , resulting in many crops sown very late which are either yet to emerge or which consist of small