Fungicide stewardship – learning from the past to protect our future
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FAR senior cereals researcher Jo Drummond has taken a look back at how crop disease control strategies have evolved over the last 50 years. In this episode of Cut the Crop, she tells Alison Stewart that the threat of fungicide resistance in key Mode of Action groups means growers need to do all they can to protect chemistry and cultivars to retain their long-term use.
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