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 Our new TAG Bulletin 17 is now available in the TAG Technical Information and Alliance Documents sections of this website. We have put together a summary of the latest herbicide resistance position, following discussion with Rothamsted Research.TAG Members can access a document summarising the latest herbicide resistance situation, put together by Dr Jim Orson. The paper, in Members' Technical Information, includes details of the latest resistance levels in populations of the main grass weeds. The EU is discussing a new directive on pesticide registrations and some of the current proposals could have a profound effect on pesticide availability.PSD has done an impact study on the proposals and the following two paragraphs are from the executive summary: The Commision proposals could remove up to 15% of the substances assessed, some of which are particularly important in the UK for protection of minor crops such as carrots and parsnips. It is possible that the endorcrine disruptor criteria could impact particularly on fungicide availability* and might result in 20 - 30% yield losses in cereals. The Parliament proposals include a single approval period for candidates for substitution of five years and could result in the loss of up to 85% of conventional chemical substances after that period. If the full potential impact of the current Parliament proposals were realised, conventional commercial agriculture in the UK (and much of the EC) as it is currently practised, would not be achievable, with major impacts on crop yield and food quality. * eg triazoles. It seems that many member countries are aware of the implications of the proposals and as a result they may be changed and go back to a suystem similar to the current one that assesses the risk rather than the current proposal of throwing out pesticides just because they exceed hazard based criteria. This is an important issue to the future of food production within the EU. The full PSD report is on PSD The summary report of the Directors for the year ended 30 September 2007 is now available on our website. Please either go to Members Technical Information page or through the link on this page.Please click here: Summary accounts The warmer spring weather is encouraging growth such that late-season cereal growth regulators will be more widely used than normal.In many areas wheat and barley crops are growing like crazy and rapidly approaching the cut-off development stage for growth regulation. The to do list gets even longer! The TAG website is to be re-designed soon and the new version will contain much more information for growers.We have been collecting ideas for new services on our website and are now in a position to start re-designing it, with a view to incorporating these ideas and eventually making it a one-stop shop for all the information needed to farm crops successfully. Spring Strategies 2 is now with Members, providing them with the most cost-effective fungicide programmes for the main arable crops.Spring Strategies 2, containing TAG's recommended disease control programme for 2008, for all the main arable crops, is now with Members. The programmes within form the basis of the respective fungicide programmes, which will be modified if necessary, in the TAG Updates as the season progresses. TAG seeks ASSET investment to attract fresh new talent into arable farming.A bid to attract fresh new talent into arable farming kicks off this month, with help from four of the UK's leading agriculture and crop science universities - Reading, Newcastle, Nottingham and Harper Adams are joining forces with The Arable Group to encourage students on crop science courses to remain in the industry after they graduate. To read more, please click here: TAG ASSET programme |
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